The Surveying division of the County’s Engineering department performs many functions and works closely with all of the other departments to provide them with land data specific to their needs. Staff determines the limit between public and private ownership in the mapping of road rights-of-way and other county-owned lands.
Several other types of surveying are performed, including boundary, topographic, hydrographic, volumetric, route surveys, construction layout and record or “as-built” surveys. The division is responsible for creating legal descriptions for new parcels being created, reviewing legal descriptions and plats prepared by others for recording and conducting driveway inspections.
Some of the recent and notable projects the division has been involved in include the Sheriff’s Office facility in downtown Sebring, Tangerine Avenue in Lake Placid, and Phase III of the Sebring Parkway (Panther Parkway).
The division currently consists of a professional land surveyor and mapper, a survey party chief and survey technicians. The five staff members have a combined 85 years of local land surveying experience.