Land Surveyors: Leaving Their Marks

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Land surveyors play a very crucial part in people’s everyday life. 

Men and women who combine their sense of adventure, their love of technology, and also their talents in making things happen with their desire to leave a lasting impression are the people who joined the ever expanding realm of land surveying.

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Land Surveyors Huntsvill Land Surveyinf

Land surveying is likely one of the world’s most vital occupations. It’s the only job qualified to form new property boundaries. Moreover, land surveyors also play a significant part in the construction of incredible architectural accomplishments – from the historical achievements that are ages old to the impressive buildings today. As a matter of fact, three of the gents on Mount Rushmore are land surveyors themselves.

Geographic Information System or GIS experts and staff rely upon surveyors for mapping details. The task of your land surveyor has shaped the world as we know it; and it all starts off with small survey markers. It might be merely a small orange survey marker, but this mark is one of the millions that the surveyor uses to take detailed measurements that would become maps which will someday become amazing buildings, new roads, master planned communities, or entire cities – and in each step along the way is a surveyor.

Land surveyors specialize in many positions:

Photogrammetric surveying

In the Office, photogrammetric surveyors deal with cutting-edge software and state of the art machine.

Boundary Surveying

These are land surveyors who do in depth reference research studying maps and boundaries spanning centuries.

Construction Surveying

Within the area, construction surveyors are the power behind any growth; these people team up with engineers to ensure that the structures are constructed within its area and coincide with the type of land where it’s built on.

Hydrographic surveying

Hydrographic surveyors take their work to the lake or sea, determining depths, borders, and a lot more. Geodesy involves surveying where you can acquire specific dimensions for satellite.

Land Surveyors may also find themselves inside the court room. They also perform a vital role in providing expert testimonies with regards to boundaries or even in assisting crime scene cases which involves land.

 

Qualifications of land surveyors

With merely a high school diploma, anyone can begin as a surveyor, an on the job training that would last for just six weeks, field training, and union apprenticeship. However, a lot of land surveyors are degree holders. Local community universities may offer programs or a two year comprehensive program in land surveying. Incomes tend to be greater than average career fields that need a 4 year college diploma or if these people acquire a degree or higher, they could begin management or one of the many specializations.

 

Madison County is Growing, But…

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Our Madison County community is among one of the fastest growing in the State. Now that's nothing new, but did you know that Limestone county is now growing at a faster rate than Madison County. This probably also means that the City of Madison is growing faster than the City of Huntsville. We'll have to wait a while longer to get more detailed information on the 2010 Census. You can find this and more interesting facts on the US Census website.

As you can see, the counties with greater than 25% growth in the state are Limestone, St. Clair, Shelby, Autauga, and Baldwin.

“Survey Land Twice, Clear-Cut Once”

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Survey Land Twice, Clear-Cut Once

Survey Land Twice, Clear-Cut Once

While this saying may be taken from the carpentry profession where you “measure twice, cut once” I found an article with the above title that reminded me of some boundary line problems I’ve seen over the years. In most cases the land owners hired loggers to harvest timber on their property and the logging company got over the property line in their zeal to get the “biggest trees out there.” In those cases, it would have saved the landowner LOTS of money and trouble to have the boundary marked first by a licensed land surveyor.

    “If you want to be certain and not rely on (assumptions) … it should be properly surveyed,” said Herb Suderman, a real estate attorney.

This is a common occurrence in rural areas where more logging is done. BUT, boundary line problem occur regularly in the city by landowners building additions, drives, fences, pools, and storage buildings over the property line.

Even if you’re positive you’re not building over the property line, there are also utility easement lines and building setback lines on most lots that must be honored.

Be sure to check your property lines and your previous survey drawing before starting any building or land clearing project. As the cliche’ goes, you can “pay me now or pay me later.” And, I’ll add that it always costs more later.

    “In rural areas because it’s more expensive to survey a large parcel of land, often the surveys are not done,” he said, adding that can cause some “big surprises.”

And, while you probably won’t REALLY need to survey twice, locating your property lines FIRST is highly recommended before you beginning any logging or building project on your property.