Services
Boundary & Physical Survey
This survey reestablishes and determines the property’s boundaries based on its recorded legal description and shows the location of visible permanent physical improvements such as building structures, driveways, fences, etc., as well as locating any potential encroachments along boundary lines affecting the use of or title to the property. These surveys are typically required for loans and include resetting missing property corners.
ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey
The American Land Title Association (ALTA)/ National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS) survey is a highly detailed survey often required by lending institutions and used by purchasers, title insurers, title companies, and sellers alike. For all parties involved, ALTA/NSPS land title surveys provide a thorough boundary & physical survey of a given property while addressing matters of title contained in a title commitment. Depending on your role and relation to the property, an ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey may provide you with more information than you may need, such as zoning information, topography, easements, exceptions to title commitment, property boundaries, utilities and points of public access, and more.
Plot Plan / Site Plan
This is not considered a survey but rather an exhibit map that may be required by your builder or by local authorities to ensure that a proposed house or structure is built in the proper location and not over an easement or building setback line.
Elevation Certificate
An official document from the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), a program administered by FEMA which enables certain property owners to purchase flood insurance. The information in this document is used in the flood insurance rating process and could help lower insurance costs. An elevation certificate is used to verify elevation data of a building structure as it relates to the site’s Base Flood Elevation (established on FEMA maps) for a given property relative to the ground level. Elevation Certificates are to be completed by a professional land surveyor who is authorized by law to certify elevation information when elevation data is required.
Property Line Staking
Property corners are found, located and verified and wooden stakes placed along the property lines to act as a visual marker for erecting fencing or when you just want to know where your property line is for clearing, landscaping or other maintenance matters.
Record Plats
Surveys that divide tracts of land into smaller parcels or recombine and/or reconfigure existing tracts of land. These types of surveys are required to be recorded at the county Register of Deeds Office and must also meet all requirements of state and local governmental agencies.
Topographic Survey
Used for aid in site design to provide an understanding of vertical relief of a given site, these types of surveys are graphic representations of physical features of the land depicting natural and man-made features, such as embankments, water courses, ditches, roads, buildings, utilities, etc., while providing spot elevation data and contours, generally created at one-foot intervals. They can be performed by conventional field-shot methods or by utilizing aerial photogrammetry. These surveys should generally be completed in conjunction with a Boundary Survey.
Construction Stakeout
Staking the position and detailed layout of new structures (e.g., building structures, roads, walls, utilities, etc.) for future construction. Data provided includes cut or fill grades for vertical elevations at the horizontal location of calculated points where improvements are designed to be constructed.
As-Built Survey
A survey performed after construction to show the location of new site improvements as they relate to the property’s boundary lines. This could include vertical elevation data to ensure a structure was built to approved vertical constraints. These surveys may be required by local municipalities for ascertaining certificates of occupancy.
Tree Location Surveys
A survey providing the actual location and diameter of existing trees, which is generally utilized by a municipality’s arborist to determine the removal and replacement of trees impacted by proposed construction.
GPS / Control Surveys
Geographic Positioning System (GPS) surveys provide data which can be used for various purposes, including planning, preservation, and development. These surveys are generally used for establishing horizontal and vertical control based on a State Plane Coordinate System, for use on large boundary surveys, topographical surveys and subdivision surveys. They can also be implemented to compile data such as the location of streets, building structures, utility structures, water and sewer systems, water courses, etc. for Geographic Information Systems (GIS).