I'm working on a proposal for a 2,600 acre ALTA in the San Joaquin Valley and I have to say, if ever county has survey records accessible and organized online like Tulare County, then you guys don't know how lucky you are.
James, oh we know. checkout La and Orange County Sites. I am 5 minutes north of the Tulare County line. Be sure to add in a record of survey checking fee to that proposal, so you can add to that list. PLS Act 8764(b)(2)
Be sure to add in a record of survey checking fee to that proposal, so you can add to that list. PLS Act 8764(b)(2)
I've got one of our PLS's working up the boundary plus regulatory budget .
My group works nationwide (almost...40 states +/-), so I end up working on a lot of the bigger proposals and leaning on the PLS(s) for that state to give me their piece of the budget.
if ever county has survey records accessible and organized online like Tulare County,
Regrettably, that's not the case. My home county (Yolo) has resisted putting maps online ever since the dawn of the Internet. I've tried to get this done since 1998, talking with 3 successive County Recorders, to no avail. In 2018 I took a different tack, obtaining all maps to date via Public Records Act request (but not without first having to get an attorney friend to threaten legal action when my request was repeatedly ignored) and putting them up on a server sponsored by the Central Valley Chapter of the CA Land Surveyors Association. The big downside to this approach is that updates only happen when I go through the whole tooth-pulling exercise with the Recorder again.
Some of the other rural counties north of me are even worse. So count your blessings that your project landed in a county with good records access, because we're not all so lucky.
Marin County has some of the maps on their GIS, but it has not been updated in a long time. Some of the filed Record of Survey maps are listed on the AP maps, but many of them are missing. The Marin CLSA chapter has a database that that is updated monthly with all of the filed maps that can sorted by AP to enable one to find all of the filed maps. It would be prudent for a surveyor working in the areas to contact a local surveyor to run the database.
More historical surveys that are unfiled exist than have been filed. It is a very tough area and time consuming to conduct a proper retracement in the area. Many of the old subdivisions don't show monuments, but you can find the hardcopies that show what traverse lines were run. The survey records and field books for the surveys can usually be found by following the different links in the web address below:
http://marinclsa.com/projects/
San Luis Obispo County has a GIS that includes every map ever recorded in the County. It took many years and thousands of hours of work, but man was it worth it.
