Armentrout Surveying & Mapping
Blue Ridge Surveying & Mapping
864 W Stuart Dr, Hillsville, VA 24343
Scott Surveying And Mapping
1626 N Main St, Hillsville, VA 24343
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Professional land surveyor in VA & NC.
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Mon - Fri - Phone:
Main - 276-728-3147
Fax - 276-728-3153
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- 508 W Stuart Dr Hillsville, VA 24343
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- Land Surveyors, Aerial Surveyors, City & Town Planners, Surveying Engineers
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General Info
Why get a survey? Most people never meet the land surveyor that performs their survey. Surveyors play a large portion in every day real estate transactions, along with a lot of other people behind the scenes trying to bring together an important step in your life: the purchase of a house for your family, tract of land for investment or small parcel of land for a summer retreat.Any person purchasing a piece of property should have their boundary corners and/or lines marked to lessen the chance of any disputes with the neighbors in the future. At times, this seems to be one thing that you wouldn't want to do, but to keep peace between landowners, it is best to know what is yours & what is not yours. When being a prospective land purchaser, it's a good idea to talk to the adjoining owners, if possible, to get an idea of what they know about the property lines. This way, you can find out any possible problem areas which would aid in your decision of whether or not to get a survey done or to back off from the land purchase. If you decide to follow through with having a survey done, you begin your search for a surveyor to perform the work. This can be done by either talking with others that have had a survey done, the phone book & even the internet. After selecting your surveyor, he/she begins their work way in advance of going to the site by gathering the required information. They get copies of the current deed of record for the subject property & all adjoining parcels. This process is sometimes very time consuming to try to come up with descriptions of the property lines. Sometimes, we may have to trace back the property to it's original creation. The deed description is all the surveyor has to work with in doing the job. If an older survey plat is found, this is another tool for us to use in retracing the surveyor's foot steps. After finding all the information we can, we plot up all the deeds to create a rough drawing of the properties. The bearings, distances &