LAND SURVEYING

Hunter Martin & Associates, Inc. is engaged in all types of land surveying and has served many distinguished clients from railroads to grain companies, marine companies, timber companies, insurance companies, power companies, telephone companies, radio stations, highway departments, title companies and legal firms. Some examples of previous Surveying projects include:

• Surveying of 9,800 acres and blazing of all the property lines in wooded and swamp land for a company buying land for timber production. This was a total number of 36 tracts with the largest single tract being a 3,640.2 acre island in the Mississippi River.
   
• Subdivisions of property into residential lots (up to 474 lots) and commercial tracts including planning, design and layout of all lots, blocks, streets, curbs, gutters, water, sewers and storm drainage.
   
• FEMA Elevation Certificates.
   
• NFIP Flood Studies
   
• Land planning for commercial and industrial development sites.
   
• Feasibility studies showing the unit costs for developments of all types.
   
• Mining surveys to determine the location of underground limestone quarries and to show the yardage removed from underground and strip mines.
   
• Marine surveys on navigable streams to determine the location and depth of sunken barges and other objects.
   
• Land title surveys as adopted by the American Land Title Association (ALTA) and the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping.
  
• Surveys for mortgage loans.
   
• Route surveys for State Departments of Transportation, power companies and telephone companies.
   
• Layout of directional radio transmission towers to true North bearings.
   
• Watershed surveys, hydrologic studies and design of floodwater retarding structures (earth dams).
   
• Documentation for litigation involving title disputes, accidents, accretions and adverse possession.
   
• Construction layout for utility, industrial and residential work.
   
• Complete layout and grading of industrial plants with numerous buildings, conveyors, piping, walks, site drives, etc.
   
• Ground control for aerial photography.
   
• Engineering surveys showing complete topography (above and below ground) and all elevations for site planning.