Boundary Surveys
Understanding your property starts with understanding its boundaries.
Professional boundary retracement surveys throughout the Wyoming Valley, Luzerne County, and Northeastern Pennsylvania.
A boundary survey is the retracement of a property's boundaries using the available record and physical evidence.
That means looking beyond the measurements in a deed. Deeds, plans, previous surveys, field measurements, existing monumentation, occupation, and other relevant evidence may all play a part in understanding the boundary.
The evidence is considered together—not made to fit a predetermined answer.
What is a boundary survey?
SO DOES THE PROPERTY.
Iron pins, rebars, pipes, stones, fences and walls, and other physical evidence may all become relevant during a boundary retracement.
Sometimes the record and field evidence agree well. Other times, additional investigation is necessary.
Records tell part of the story.
What goes into a boundary survey?
01
RESEARCH
Relevant deeds, plans, previous surveys, and other available records
02
FIELDWORK
Existing monuments, occupation, improvements, and other physical evidence are located and measured using appropriate surveying methods.
03
BOUNDARY ANALYSIS
Record information and field evidence are evaluated together to retrace the property boundaries in accordance with applicable surveying principles and standards.
04
SURVEY PLAN/MONUMENTATION
The results are documented on a signed and sealed survey plan, with property corners monumented as appropriate based on the survey findings and scope of work.
It’s rarely as simple as research, measure, done.
Boundary surveying is a little bit of history, a little bit of detective work, and a lot of professional judgment. A stone found in the woods might confirm a call written into a deed generations ago. Something unexpected in the field might send us back to the records—or back out for another look.
Each piece of evidence adds to the story of the property.
My job is to put those pieces together and retrace the boundary.
Surveying in Northeastern Pennsylvania
LOCAL EXPERIENCE
Properties throughout our region have history.
Older deeds, previous surveys, stone monuments, iron pipes, natural boundary calls, and generations of adjoining property records are part of surveying here.
Some of that evidence has been in the ground—or in the records—for generations.
Modern equipment allows us to measure with remarkable precision.
It doesn't replace the evidence.
Have a property you'd like surveyed?
Send us the property address and a brief description of what you're planning or what you'd like to determine.
We'll review the property and provide a proposal for the appropriate scope of surveying services.