California Surveyors Forums

How about compiling a list of links to County and City Surveyor’s websites throughout the state and the links to the on-line map resources?

I’ll start:

Riverside, California:
Parcel Maps, Tract Maps, Records of Survey, Tie Sheets, etc.
http://wam.riversideca.gov/PWSurvey/survey.asp

Riverside County:
http://www3.tlma.co.riverside.ca.us/pa/rclis/index.html for the County GIS

http://www.rctlma.org/online/default.aspx for case status

http://www5.rctlma.org/cgi-bin/mapinquiry.pl for access to online maps (R/S, PM, TM, etc.)



BTW - A big thanks to Dane Ince for links to finding maps and doing on-line research in the city and County of San Francisco!

Kern County:

http://www.co.kern.ca.us/ess/

Good idea, Ian!

Orange County:

http://www.ocgeomatics.com/landrecords/Default.aspx

(if this link is out of date, please someone correct it)

Oops! Double post.

Navigate LA is the portal to CITY of Los Angeles data, but it's been so long since I've used it that I don't know what the next step would be once you get there.

dpwgis.co.la.ca.us/website/survey record will get you to COUNTY of Los Angeles survey data.

Dave beat me to LA. Here is Santa Barbara County:

http://www.countyofsb.org/pwd/surveyor/index.htm

Ric

San Mateo County:

Unfortunately I can only report that San Mateo County has checklists available online at this time:

http://www.co.sanmateo.ca.us/smc/depart ... 37,00.html

Ric, looks like we forgot to post Ventura County. :-)

http://portal.countyofventura.org/porta ... ema=PORTAL

should be the link for Ventura County

THAT WAS GOING TO BE OUR LITTLE SECRET. I WONDER IF ONCE WE GET ALL THE COUNTIES CHIMED IN MAYBE WE CAN GET ALL THE LINKS ADDED TO THIS WEBSITE UNDER CA RESEARCH RESOURCES

City and county of San Francisco
http://www.sfgov.org/site/sfdpw_page.asp?id=38109
http://209.77.149.18/subdivision/dpwweb/
http://gispubweb.sfgov.org/website/sfparcel/


MARIN
http://mmgis.marinmap.org/MarinMap/View ... Viewer.asp
http://www.co.marin.ca.us/depts/AR/MapBook/index.cfm

ALAMEDA
http://www.acgov.org/MS/prop/index.aspx

City of LA Electronic Vault:
http://engvault.lacity.org/main/

Instructions for City of LA:
Use This link to Navigate LA:http://eng.lacity.org/index.cfm (Look under Quick Links)

Once you are in Navigate LA, use the pull down menu to go to "Vault" and the city's grid will appear on the map along with a popup (turn off your blocker) for the Electronic Vault will appear as well. You zoom in on the Nav LA site to find your site. Hover the mouse in one spot to find out the grid (XXXbXXX - where X's are numbers). Go to the vault website and change the pull down to FB (Field Books). Enter the grid from NAV LA in his format: XXX-XXX (replacing b with -). Find the index sheet - usually page 99 and it's pretty easy to figure it out from there.

San Diego County

http://www.sdcountyluegepay.com/SRI_Internet/

The site Steve lists above is very useful if you know your tract or parcel map recording reference. The following link compliments the one Steve listed if all you know is the tract or parcel map number. It will provide you the recording reference, although it only goes back as far as 1977.

http://dpw.lacounty.gov/ldd/DMR/

8483 wrote:I have a really hard time with the San Diego site. Almost every time I use it, it gets locked up and just runs on with the clock spinning saying "please wait". I usually get frustrated and then will just go down to the county and do it manually. Any tips?

I used to have this problem once in a while, but it hasn't happened in the last four or five months. Maybe they've fixed it? Maybe you need to check to make sure you've got the latest edition of internet explorer? Pop-up blocker?

I used the LA site this past week. As I recall, you need to put the words "survey" and "record" together as one word.

Or you could type in the link, stopping just before the word "survey" and that will get you to its parent page.

http://www.sjgov.org/pubworks/surveyor_records.htm
I just discovered it day before yesterday, don't know when they started but it was recent I'm sure. The link had a problem after my first day using it. I hope I wasn't the cause, but I called yesterday and they are working on it. Just checked it this morning and it is working now. I also have a contact for errata if you find any errors.

And I now see this site was already posted above by DirtyDrafter in November. Sorry about the double post.

http://www.slocounty.ca.gov/PW/maps/MapIndexes.htm

http://www.slocounty.ca.gov/Assessor/Pa ... Online.htm

You can do all the research you want, but they don't have the maps online, so it's virtually useless unless you have a company up there to pull the docs for you; which I do.

Well done Greg! Thanks.

I guess I should mention that the County of San Mateo has a new index of "Filed Corner Records".

http://www.co.sanmateo.ca.us/smc/depart ... 37,00.html

Unfortunately our website can not include images of the documents, but the excell file will allow a surveyor to sort and search for corner records in the area, by APN's or Address. If images are needed, there are options to obtain them.

Next step is the record of surveys!

Thought I would post something to get this back on page one.

Any chance we could get a section for references on this here forum?

Either that, or change it into a "sticky" so that it's always at the top of General Discussion.

After months of data entry, I am happy to report that San Mateo County, Department of Public Works has an index of all filed record of surveys now online. BPS has a CD available for purchase to view the maps, along with subdivision maps. I

hope this is helpful to all performing research, to give you the oppertunity to see what mapping has been filed in any region within the county. This is an excell spread sheet that enables you various oppertunities to sort and locate surveys within the county.

http://www.co.sanmateo.ca.us/portal/site/publicworks

https://surveyor.sbcounty.gov/surveyormaps/Login.aspx

Haven't used it yet, but here it is...finally!!!!

Santa Cruz County has an extensive GIS website. Unfortunately you still have to go to the county to purchase maps, but at least you can do all your research before getting there.

http://gis.co.santa-cruz.ca.us/

One of the best cities to get info from is City of Riverside...

http://wam.riversideca.gov/PWSurvey/survey.asp

And City of LA:

http://engvault.lacity.org/main/
http://navigatela.lacity.org/index.cfm

In the City of LA you need the navigate LA site to get the index number of the area you're working in. Then the engvault page to find tie notes and benches.

City of Santa Monica
Digital Center Line Tie and Benchmark Information System
http://gismap.santa-monica.org/website/ ... viewer.htm
Really neat website that shows good information if you are doing any survey work out in Santa Monica.

Online Property Information System for Santa Monica
http://gismap.santa-monica.org/imf/imf. ... e=property

This website shows every dimension of the streets in Santa Monica. All you do is choose the street you want info on.
http://www01.smgov.net/engineering/tie_ ... h_form.asp

If you want to know sewer line or Utility info. in Santa Monica
http://www01.smgov.net/engineering/tie_ ... ce_center/