How do I find my legal boundary?

Find your property line by visiting your local county recorder or assessor's office. You can access public maps of your street and locate your boundaries. Many counties also let you access property lines online. If your property is on platted land, you may be able to access the plat maps online.

Is there a free app that shows property lines?

The LandGlide app is designed to help people find their property lines using their smartphones. Thanks to advanced parcel data and the GPS on your device, LandGlide features up-to-date data that can show you where your property lines are.

How do I find property lines on my iPhone?

Here's how it works: Just fire up Homesnap on your iPhone or iPad, pull up the home's listing, scroll to the map, and tap “Walk the Property Lines.” As you walk the perimeter of the home, your iPhone (or iPad) will display the property lines on top of a real-time view captured by the device's built-in camera.

Is there an app to find survey markers?

The Property Survey GPS app helps users find property lines and store measurements. The app can survey and explore your property and provide estimated land markers.

Are the property lines on Google Maps accurate?

Are property lines on Google Maps accurate? No. Google Maps are not that accurate, and you shouldn't rely on them as a source for factual information regarding property lines. Much like a plat map, they only provide a general idea of where property lines exist.

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How do I find survey stakes?

Survey pins are thin iron bars, 2 or 3 feet long and sometimes capped with plastic, which the original survey crew inserted on the property lines. If you have access to a metal detector, move the device over the ground along the sidewalk to the curb to locate the survey pin.

How do I survey land with my smartphone?

To survey land with a smartphone you must first download a credible surveying app on your phone. Using your phone's built-in GPS, you can utilize the features of your surveying app to measure an area by walking in lines. The lines that you create can then be calculated to give you survey results.

What is the most accurate app for property lines?

LandGlide is the most comprehensive parcel data mobile app. Using GPS technology to pinpoint your exact location, you can explore maps and access 150 million parcel records in over 3,000 counties - covering more than 95% of the U.S. population.

What is the best app to find property lines?

The Regrid App is ready and waiting whenever property curiosity strikes. Open the app to quickly view the parcel map around you and pull up loads of information on any property of interest: you'll see its boundaries, address, ownership, and more.

How accurate is LandGlide?

How accurate are the parcel lines in LandGlide®? The parcel lines within our database are fairly accurate. The property lines are not intended to represent actual recently surveyed property lines and are not recommended to use for legal purposes.

Does Google Earth have lot lines?

Does Google Earth show property lines? Google Earth used to display property lines, however, this feature is no longer available.

How do I turn on property lines in Google Maps?

Click the red pin on screen to center the view over your home. Then, continue to click the “+” button in the lower right corner of the screen to continue to zoom in. In the event that Google has access to your property line information, it will be displayed once you zoom in far enough.

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How accurate are property line apps?

For the most part, you can expect the private property boundaries to be accurate to within 5-10 feet. However, this depends on the individual county and data source.

Can land survey be done online?

In about a month, you can take your own tapes and measure your own agricultural land and upload it on a mobile app of the Survey Department.

Can you use a metal detector to find property stakes?

Use a metal detector and then start digging. The marker should be about 6-10 inches below the surface. It may have a colored cap with numbers on the top. Use your survey to see what distance the back stake is from the front stake and use your tape measure to measure that distance, then use the metal detector and dig.

How close to a road does your property line start?

Within that 12.5 feet you will typically find the curb, sidewalk, and possibly utility lines. So – if you want to know where your front property line is located, you would need to go to the middle of the street, measure 25 feet towards your house, and that would be the front property line.

Can GIS maps be wrong?

The accuracy of the property lines varies depending on different factors. In general the newer a subdivision, the more accurate the mapped lines. In a newer subdivision, past 5 years or so, the lines are probably within 5 feet +/- of where they actually exist.

Is LandGlide app free?

Free for the first seven days. $9.99/month or $99.99/year thereafter. View and search over 155.8 million parcel records covering over 99.0% of the U.S population. LandGlide supports your cellular data access so you can search parcel records in the field with real estate property boundary overlays.

Where can I find iron survey pins?

Survey pins are typically 15 feet in from the curb. Go to your front curb and measure back about 15 feet in the area you think your marker should be. Use a metal detector and then start digging. The marker should be about 6-10 inches below the surface.