Land Surveying Long Beach

Land Surveying Long Beach is a local surveying firm located at 120 E 3rd St in Long Beach, CA, serving property owners, buyers, builders, and developers. They provide accurate site information for boundaries, planning, construction, and real estate needs across Long Beach, Signal Hill, Lakewood, Seal Beach, Carson, Bellflower, Los Alamitos, Rossmoor, and San Pedro. The business offers free quotes with a same-business-day turnaround, drawing surveys to the standard requested by plan checkers, lenders, or title companies.

The firm provides boundary surveys, ALTA/NSPS land title surveys, topographic surveys, ADU site surveys, elevation certificates, construction staking, as-built surveys, and lot line adjustments. Each survey type addresses a different document requirement, such as locating property lines from recorded tract maps or mapping ground elevations for areas affected by historical oil well activity and harbor sinking.

Clients can request a free quote by calling (562) 479-7674 or using the website form, providing the property address or APN, the requested survey type, and the deadline. The team responds the same business day with a price and a realistic date, explicitly stating if a tight deadline is achievable before any payment is made.

They cover Long Beach, Signal Hill, Lakewood, Seal Beach, Carson, Bellflower, Los Alamitos, Rossmoor, and San Pedro. Because Seal Beach and Los Alamitos fall in Orange County, their records come from the Orange County Surveyor, while the rest of the service area relies on LA County Public Works for tract maps and corner records.

The process starts by searching for and checking street monuments from the recorded tract map, which often predates modern instruments in older neighborhoods. Once enough monuments are recovered to rebuild the block, the lot is measured from them to reveal any mismatches between record lines and physical structures like block walls or fences.

When a client mentions a tight deadline, the team assesses achievability on the call and provides an honest date upfront. They prioritize these requests because many surveys are drawn to specific standards required by city plan checkers, lenders, or title insurers to avoid delays in escrow or construction permits.

A boundary survey locates property lines from recorded maps and shows where walls or fences sit against them, while an ALTA/NSPS survey is the national standard used by title insurers and commercial lenders. The ALTA survey includes every title commitment exception plotted or noted, making it suitable for lender and escrow formats.

In these areas, concrete block walls were often erected years after the houses and not always on the exact line. The survey identifies these walls sitting a few inches onto one lot, which is an ordinary result, and shows the physical reality alongside the record lines on the drawing.

California Business and Professions Code section 8762 requires a Record of Survey to be filed with the county surveyor when monuments are set to mark property lines or when a material discrepancy is revealed. A corner record is the usual filing when existing monuments are used as control for the survey.

Elevation certificates are necessary because parts of the harbor area sank dramatically during the mid-century oil boom, meaning old elevations cannot be taken on trust. The survey maps ground elevations to account for this history and the specific coastal zone permits required for waterfront jobs.

The drawing is prepared to the standard the requesting party works to, whether it is for city plan check, a lender, a title insurer, or an architect. The specific format they accept varies by survey type and is set out on the quote, ensuring the document is drawn for whoever asked for it.

To begin, the client must provide the address or APN, the specific survey requested, and the date it is needed. This information is sufficient to price the project and determine if the deadline is achievable, with no obligation to proceed if the date cannot be met.

Most requests arrive from someone else, such as a plan checker, lender, title insurer, or architect asking for a specific document. The firm accommodates these external requests by ensuring the final drawing matches the exact format and standard the third party accepts.

For urgent matters, clients are instructed to call (562) 479-7674 directly rather than using the form. The team also notes that they will come back to the client the same business day if the form submission encounters an error.

The official website of Land Surveying Long Beach is landsurveyinglongbeach.com.