Boundary surveys, ALTA surveys, site plans and construction staking across Whitfield County. Licensed Georgia surveyor serving Dalton and Varnell.
Whitfield County sits in northwest Georgia, with Dalton as its county seat. It falls within the Ridge and Valley province, a country of long sandstone ridges standing over open valleys, with Dalton on the floor of the Great Valley between them. Where the land rises and falls that much across a single tract, a topographic survey and a site plan earn their place, and the contours are usually better in hand before a design is set than after.
S&S Land Surveying LLC works from 549 West Ave in Cedartown, in Polk County, and takes work throughout Whitfield County. The firm was founded at the end of 2021 by William "Bart" Sims, who has more than 40 years of surveying experience, and the work is performed by a licensed Georgia surveyor. We hold a 4.9 star rating across 50+ Google reviews. Dalton and Varnell are among the county's incorporated cities, and we cover the unincorporated county as well.
Georgia records land by metes and bounds. The federal rectangular survey system never reached the state, because Georgia handed out its land through State grants rather than through the federal government, so no township and range grid lies beneath a Whitfield County deed. The State keyed each grant to a land district and a land lot number instead, and those same identifiers still turn up in the legal descriptions written into deeds and plats today. Tracing them backward is usually where the retracement of an older boundary begins.
O.C.G.A. § 44-2-1 directs that a deed be recorded with the Clerk of Superior Court in the county where the land sits. It is the location of the property, not the address of the owner, that fixes which office holds the record, so a Whitfield County parcel stays on file in Whitfield County no matter where its owner lives.
Plats fall under O.C.G.A. § 15-6-67, the Georgia Plat Act. A plat that meets the standards set by the State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors is filed and recorded by the clerk on a sheet no smaller than 8.5 by 11 inches and no larger than 24 by 36 inches. The Act also holds that a subdivision plat cannot be recorded until the planning commission or the governing authority has approved it, so any division of land has to pass local review before the clerk will take it. Current parcel and assessment data for the county is published through the Whitfield County parcel and assessment portal.
Whitfield County belongs to the Ridge and Valley province, and its shape on a map is a run of long ridges separated by broad valleys. Rocky Face Ridge is the clearest of them, a wall of resistant sandstone left standing on the west side of the county while the softer shale and limestone around it wore away, and Dalton lies on the floor of the Great Valley below. It is the limestone in that valley floor that makes this cave country. The Georgia EPD cave survey counts Whitfield among the northwest Georgia counties that together hold most of the caves recorded in the state.
That limestone is old Paleozoic rock, tight and hard, so water does not soak evenly through it. It runs instead along the joints and bedding planes and dissolves the stone as it goes, opening sinkholes, cavities and cave passages over long spans of time that leave little or no sign at the surface.
For an owner this is a practical matter, not a curiosity. A void or a sink under a building pad can move where the structure belongs, change how its foundation is engineered, alter how runoff is carried and shape the documentation a lender or engineer expects up front. A topographic survey captures how that ground reads at the surface, and a boundary survey fixes where the lines fall across it. Reading what lies below grade is geotechnical work rather than land surveying, so when a site calls for it we say so and point you to that specialist.
Retracing deed and plat calls to locate and mark the lines and corners of a parcel.
Learn More →Title and lender grade surveys prepared to the ALTA/NSPS standards for commercial transactions.
Learn More →Elevation and contour mapping for design work, drainage review and permitting.
Learn More →Existing conditions and proposed improvements drawn for city and county permit submittals.
Learn More →Dividing a tract into new parcels, prepared for the local approval a plat filing requires.
Learn More →Setting building corners, offsets and control so the work gets built where the plan puts it.
Learn More →Select a city for local surveying information. We also cover the unincorporated parts of the county. Tunnel Hill straddles the Whitfield and Catoosa line, so which office records a deed or plat there depends on where the parcel actually lies.
Whitfield County borders Catoosa, Gordon, Murray and Walker counties in Georgia, and meets Bradley and Hamilton counties across the Tennessee state line. The neighbors we cover with their own pages are below.
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