Land Surveying in Claremore

Claremore anchors Rogers County, which has absorbed a good share of people wanting acreage within commuting distance of Tulsa. Five and ten acre tracts carved out of larger farms are the characteristic property here, and they generate a particular kind of survey work.

The split tract problem

When a hundred and sixty acre farm gets divided into ten acre pieces over thirty years, each split created a new description. If those splits were done carefully with a surveyor involved each time, the pieces fit together. If some were done by a deed written at the kitchen table using a rough acreage figure, they do not, and the gaps and overlaps land on whoever surveys it next.

This is common enough in Rogers County that a surveyor working here expects it. Sorting it out can require pulling every deed in the chain and sometimes retracing the whole section.

What comes up most often here

• Acreage boundary surveys for purchase, fencing or building
• Lot splits where an owner is dividing land
• Septic and building site work needing topographic data
• Easement and access questions on landlocked or shared driveway tracts
• Fence disputes between neighbors on rural lines

Access and easements

Rural tracts frequently depend on an access easement across somebody else’s ground. Whether that easement is recorded, where exactly it runs, and how wide it is are questions that come up constantly when the property changes hands. A survey can show the easement as recorded, which is often the first time anyone has seen it drawn. More on easements.