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Types of Land Surveying and Their Use
A surveyor can perform your property survey whenever you need it. The most common reason for hiring a surveyor, however, is when you want to build a house. You should have your land surveyed before you buy a property, even if you aren't planning to build anything on it. This way, you'll know exactly where the boundaries of your property are; you'll know what's yours and what's not.
Understanding your land boundaries is possible through land surveying. Locating, describing monuments, and mapping a parcel's boundaries and corners is the purpose of a survey. The land may also be geographically designed, have buildings on it, or have other improvements on it.
Surveyors use complex mathematical, engineering, and physics skills to find and define property boundaries. Their surveying equipment includes GPSs, prisms, software, radios. Licensed and authorized land surveyors conduct land surveys under the supervision of the Engineers and Surveyors Board.
Types of Land Survey
Boundary Survey
A Boundary Survey defines the boundaries of a property. This type of survey requires the surveyor to set or recover corners of land as well as produce a detailed map of the property. Surveyors do this by researching public records, conducting field research, taking measurements, and performing calculations. Permits and construction require this kind of survey. Using natural boundaries or artificial boundaries, the Boundary Survey will show you your land's exact boundaries.
ALTA Survey
Typically, title companies, lenders, and attorneys representing the parties involved order ALTA surveys for commercial property purchases, refinances, or improvements.
These surveys are based on standards developed jointly by the American Land Title Association and the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping. An ALTA survey ensures results are reliable because it uses a universal standard.
Location Survey
One could easily confuse the location with the boundary survey. Each type of survey provides information about the locations of interior improvements. Location surveys are often required for loan applications or zoning permits, while boundary surveys are used for locating corners and lines within a piece of land.
Mortgage Location Survey
Lenders and title insurers usually order residential Mortgage Location Survey to prove that specific improvements are located on the property. Measurements taken on a site must be documented in the survey plat and may differ from what is recorded in public records.
Mortgage Location Survey for commercial properties is a low-cost alternative to ALTA surveys, although they sacrifice some accuracy. The lender must agree that these state standards will serve as an alternative to the ALTA standards when conducting a commercial mortgage location survey.
Site planning Survey
This type of survey is usually required for receiving a development permit, as site planning is the process of designing and planning a new development project. This combined survey is usually required for a development permit. The results allow designers to plan before construction is undertaken.
These forms are typically used to design house lots, playgrounds, stores, subdivisions, streets, highways & all of the things you'd find around your neighborhood.
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Construction Survey
The stakes of this form indicate the location of walls, outbuildings, and roads on a particular property. A development plan shows how improvements should be implemented through measurements and stakes. An alignment survey can also include vertical and horizontal alignments.
Subdivision Survey
A subdivision survey is most appropriate when you wish to divide a parcel of land into smaller portions. The government normally approves the results of these surveys when they are used to design drainage systems and entire streets.
Topographic Survey
Land elevation is determined by field measurement and preparation of a plat as part of a topographic survey. A property owner usually hires one of these surveyors before making any improvements to their property, such as landscaping, additions, or parking lots.
