Land Survey
LAND SURVEYS (sometimes called cad-astral or property surveys) are conducted to establish the exact location, boundaries, or subdivision of a tract of land in any specified area. This type of survey requires professional registration in all states. Presently, land surveys generally consist of the following chores:
Establishing markers or monuments to define and thereby preserve the boundaries of land belonging to a private concern, a corporation, or the government.
Road Survey
Necessity
When the question of construction a new road arises due to public demand or some strategic reason, a primary investigation is carried out to examine whether this road is necessary. The following points are to be kept in mind at the time of such investigation:
- Total population benefited by the project.
- Number of villages, towns industrial places, etc. to be connected.
- Agricultural products, industrial products, minerals, etc. are likely to be conveyed through the proposed road and thus help the development of trade in the country.
- Prospect of tourism, if any.
- Strategic importance for the defense of the country.
- Any other information related to the project should be noted
Project Survey
LAND SURVEYS (sometimes called cadastral or property surveys) are conducted to establish the exact location, boundaries, or subdivision of a tract of land in any specified area. This type of survey requires professional registration in all states. Presently, land surveys generally consist of the following chores:
Establishing markers or monuments to define and thereby preserve the boundaries of land belonging to a private concern, a corporation, or the government.
Rerunning old land survey lines to deter- mine their lengths and directions. As a result of the high cost of land, old lines are remeasured to get more precise measurements.
Calculating areas, distances, and directions and preparing the land map to portray the survey data so that it can be used as a permanent record.
Writing a technical description for deeds.
Deed Writing
When it comes to land surveys, the deed description is essential to any property record. Writing a deed description is basically about taking the ‘house on Main Street’ and describing it in a much more descriptive nature to demonstrate exactly where the property is located, what is nearby, and what its measurements are. Property descriptions have their own terminology to understand, and knowing these terms often makes it easier to write a deed description. Metes and bounds are two terms that are common. Metes is an explanation of the distance and course of the property, while bounds is a description that gives the boundaries of the property.
To better explain this, bounds would be used to state that a property is “bound on the north by Green, on the east by Smith, on the south by Jones, and on the west by Crane Creek River”. This basically supplies the information as to what surrounds the property, and really only describes that it is a four-sided structure. Determining the boundaries of neighboring properties is important, and this description doesn’t cover that information. Therefore, a metes description might better serve to clarify the information that is present.