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​Hideaway Land Surveying

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Welcome to ​Hideaway Land Surveying

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Welcome to our new website. We are Land Surveyors and Civil Engineers providing services to the general public, contractors, and companies in the City of ​Hideaway, and Smith County, Texas area. If you have any land surveying needs (see the list above in the menu bar) in the ​Hideaway area, you’ve come to the right place. We are eager to meet your land surveying needs in Texas.

Our Company

​Hideaway Land Surveying is a marketing website for SMW Engineering. At SMW you’ll find all of the technical experience you need and so much more. Our local ​Hideaway office has the leadership and team members for any size projects. Lots of growth is happening on our side of Tyler and with over 200,000 in the ​Tyler Metro area, SMW is please to call ​Hideaway Texas home. We have a fully staffed land surveying office in ​Hideaway with Blue McCoy, a local registered land surveyor, in charge of the office. We have 3 survey field crews in order to meet any of your land surveying needs in the ​Hideaway and surrounding area. If you need any help with ​Hideaway land surveying, call us at (903) 525-6405 or see our Contact Page.

Land Surveyors in ​Hideaway, TX

Land Surveyors are professionals who investigate, and make precise measurements to determine the size and boundaries of a piece of real estate.  While this is a simplistic definition, this is one of the most common types of surveying related to home and land owners. Land Surveyors are trained and educated to deal with all types of property line issues that may arise on a parcel of land. The first recorded history of land surveyors was in ancient Egypt, where “rope stretchers” replaced the property lines of farms along the Nile River after each flood of the area. We still find property lines to this day for land owners. To know more about what a land surveyor does, click here.

What you can expect from ​Hideaway Land Surveying

phoca_thumb_l_david-mckinney-plsIf you need assistance with any land surveying services in the Smith County Texas area, we can help you out.

We strive to be responsive to your time schedule and to provide quality land surveying services. We emphasize collaboration and total communication at every phase of the project.

How to contact ​Hideaway Land Surveying?

CALL Blue McCoy at ​Hideaway Land Surveying TODAY at (903) 525-6405 to discuss your land survey needs. You can also send us a message by going to our contact page.

What Is A Land Surveyor?

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Land Surveyor: Definition

A land surveyor is a professional person with the academic qualifications and technical expertise to measure and plot the lengths and directions of boundary lines and the dimensions of any portion of the earth’s surface (including natural and other structures.) That definition is quite a mouthful, but in actuality the field of surveying (geomatics) includes many other facets.

For the home-owner the land surveyor is the person who locates the boundary of your property and the location of your home within that boundary to determine if there are any encroachments by your neighbors onto you or vice versa. Common encroachments are fences, driveways, etc.

Alabama Land Surveyor

Land surveyors in the United States are regulated and licensed by the various state governments. In Alabama, the Alabama State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors (www.bels.state.al.us) was established in 1935 to protect the public by helping “to safeguard life, health, and property, and to promote the public welfare by providing for the licensing and regulation of persons in the practices of engineering and land surveying.

This purpose is achieved through the establishment of minimum qualifications for entry into the professions of engineering and land surveying, through the adoption of rules defining and delineating unlawful or unethical conduct, and through swift and effective discipline for those individuals or entities who violate the applicable laws or rules.”

As of 2007, a newly licensed land surveyor is required to have a four year degree in surveying or a closely related field and an additional four to eight years of on-the-job training under a licensed land surveyor.

Licensed Land Surveyors are also required to maintain and update their professional knowledge and skills by attending 15 hours of continuing education each year.

In preparation for a typical lot or mortgage survey of your house, a land surveyor may review tax maps, aerial maps, deeds, subdivision plats, zoning ordinances, subdivision regulations and possibly flood maps.

For a typical lot survey the subdivision plat is the most important of these because it gives the exact dimensions of your lot and the relative location of your property corners. The surveyor uses this to locate and/or re-establish your property corners.

Early Land SurveyorsIn the field the survey crew will find the property corners along with some of your neighbors corners if yours can’t be found, measure the distances and angles between all of the points, locate all improvements on your property, including your house, pool, out-buildings, retaining walls, fences, driveways and sidewalks, etc.

Other improvements like sanitary sewer mains, storm drainage ways, overhead power lines and the like are located because these might indicate an easement across the property. The plat should show these, but they don’t in all cases. We’ll talk about easements in a later article.

Once all of the field information is gathered, the chief land surveyor takes the field notes and prepares a preliminary sketch of the work. This is passed along to a draftsperson who prepares the final drawing for your use. The draftsperson will check all of the maps mentioned earlier to make sure that all building setback lines and easements are shown on the drawing.

The surveyed distances and directions are compared to the plat distances and directions also. Any discrepancies or encroachments are shown on the drawing. Your attorney uses the drawing to determine if any other legal work is needed during the closing.

The mortgage company or bank uses the survey to insure they are loaning you money on the correct property (in case they end up owning it. Yikes)

So now, what do you have for your money. You have a drawing which shows your house on your lot. You should have stakes and/or flagging by all of your property corners. Make sure you know where they are located.

The actual corner is marked by an iron pin or pipe of some sort. (The type of monument should be shown on your survey drawing.) You might also want to take a look for them at least once a year to make sure they’re still there.

For a land surveyor at ​Hideaway,AL and surrounding areas, call us at (903) 525-6405 or send us a message by going here.