Land Surveyor in Greenville, SC
Surveying Services We Provide in Greenville
Boundary surveys locate and mark the legal limits of a parcel, recovering existing corners and setting new ones where they are missing. Property line surveys flag your lines before a fence, a shed, or tree clearing. ALTA/NSPS land title surveys meet the national standard lenders and title insurers require on commercial transactions. Topographic surveys map elevations, utilities and drainage as the base plan for design and permitting. We also handle construction staking, subdivisions and lot line adjustments, mortgage surveys and loan plats, flood and elevation certificates, and drone and LiDAR mapping.
3D Land Surveying is based at 10 Century Dr, Suite A in Greenville, South Carolina, and has surveyed property across the Upstate since 2003. We run more than ten field crews with on-site supervisors and four FAA-certified drone pilots. If you need your property lines located, a plat prepared for recording, or a survey to satisfy a lender or title company, that is the work we do every day in Greenville County.
We are dedicated to upholding our promise of ensuring your complete satisfaction, and we guarantee a warm and friendly demeanor during every service we offer.
What does a land survey cost in South Carolina?
There is no flat rate, because the work is priced by what the parcel demands rather than by the acre alone. Five things move the number more than anything else: the size and shape of the parcel, how much of it is wooded or steep, whether existing corner monuments can still be recovered or have to be re-established from deed records, how far back the chain of recorded plats has to be researched, and which type of survey you actually need. A simple rectangular suburban lot with two findable iron pins is a fundamentally different job from thirty acres of timber with a disputed line. Tell us the address and what you are trying to accomplish and we will quote the specific work.
Do I need a survey before building a fence?
Yes, in almost every case it is worth doing first. A fence built even a foot over a boundary is a legal problem that outlives the fence, and moving one after the fact usually costs several times what it would have cost to locate the line beforehand. Many municipalities also require a survey or a plat before issuing a fence permit. A property line survey is the service most fence projects need. It locates and marks your boundary in the field with stakes or flagging so the crew installing the fence knows exactly where to build, and it is generally a smaller job than a full boundary survey with a recorded plat.
What is the difference between a boundary survey and a plat?
A boundary survey is the work. A plat is one of the documents that work can produce. The survey is the process of researching deeds and recorded plats, recovering or re-establishing corner monuments, measuring the parcel and determining where the legal lines actually fall. The plat is the drawing that represents those findings, sealed by a licensed surveyor. Not every boundary survey needs a plat, and not every plat requires new field work. If you only want your lines flagged before clearing trees, you may need the survey without a recorded document. If you are subdividing a parcel or recording a new legal description, you need a plat prepared to your county's recording standards.
Why a Local Surveyor Matters in Greenville County
Our office is in Greenville and most of our work sits inside Greenville County, including the City of Greenville, Greer, Simpsonville, Mauldin, Taylors, Travelers Rest and Fountain Inn. We also survey across the wider Upstate, including Spartanburg, Anderson, Easley and Pickens, and into western North Carolina.
Boundary work is records work before it is field work. A survey in Greenville County depends on deeds, recorded plats and prior surveys held by the Greenville County Register of Deeds, and on knowing which of several conflicting older plats a given neighborhood actually followed. Surveyors who work an area repeatedly recover corners faster, because they have often set or found the surrounding monuments before. That matters most in older parts of the county, where original iron pins may have been disturbed by grading, utility work or road widening decades ago.
Interested in our services? We’re here to help!
Call 864-272-0274 or send us the address and what you are trying to accomplish, and we will tell you which survey you actually need. It is often a smaller job than people expect. We are open Monday to Friday, 7:00am to 5:00pm.
