Los Angeles County · Land Surveying
Artesia packs its homes and one of the region's best-known commercial corridors into roughly a square mile and a half, so survey questions here are usually about tight margins: exact side-yard lines, shared driveway edges, and storefront parcels along Pioneer Boulevard.
Tell us what the parcel is and what you are planning — that is enough to start a conversation about scope. Call (213) 787-3342 to talk it through.
Artesia is nearly surrounded by Cerritos and occupies one of the smallest footprints of any incorporated city in Los Angeles County. The residential streets carry postwar tract homes on modest lots, a legacy of the area's transition from dairy land to suburb in the 1950s and 60s, while Pioneer Boulevard supports a dense run of shops, restaurants, and small commercial buildings that draw visitors from across the region.
That mix produces two distinct kinds of survey work. Homeowners ask us to mark property lines before fences, driveway replacements, additions, and ADUs, where a few inches decide whether a plan works. Commercial owners, buyers, and lenders on the corridor ask for ALTA/NSPS title surveys, as-built surveys, and site plans for buildings that often share walls or sit lot-line to lot-line with their neighbors.
Requests from Artesia owners often look like:
On Artesia's residential blocks, improvements commonly crowd the record lines: garages at the rear corner, block walls assumed to be on the boundary, and driveways serving two homes side by side. When those assumptions are tested — by a sale, a permit application, or a disagreement — the recorded tract map and the monuments that survive in the neighborhood are what settle the question. We retrace the record geometry, locate the physical evidence, and mark or map the line so decisions rest on measurement rather than memory.
Corridor properties bring title questions along with boundary ones: reciprocal access, parking that serves more than one parcel, and older buildings whose walls sit at or over a line. An ALTA/NSPS survey ties the title commitment's exceptions to their actual locations on the ground, which is why lenders and title companies request one for commercial purchases and refinances. Scope for any of this depends on title records, site conditions, and project needs.
For Artesia's compact residential lots and its commercial corridor, these are the working tools — note the difference between resolving a line and simply marking one:
Whether one is required is set by the buyer's lender and title company, but ALTA/NSPS surveys are the standard request for financed commercial purchases because they show boundaries, improvements, easements, and encroachments together in one document.
Yes. We locate the wall relative to the retraced boundary and show its position on the survey map. If it straddles or crosses the line, the map documents by how much, which the owners and their title companies can then address.
On a fifty-foot-wide lot there is little room to absorb error — a fence a foot off the line is a meaningful share of a side yard. Having the corners set or the line staked before construction keeps the fence, and any future permit or sale, on solid footing.
A neighbor's survey is useful evidence and can reduce research time, but it was certified to them for their purpose. If you need a survey you can rely on for your own fence, addition, or sale, it should be performed and certified for your parcel.
It starts as one. A survey establishes where the parcel lines run relative to the parking, building, and access — common issues on older commercial blocks where several storefronts grew up together. What the owners do about any encroachment it reveals is a title and legal matter, but nobody can address it until the lines are located.
The most useful items to gather before calling:
We start from the records: the tract map, the title documents, and any prior surveys near the site. After scope is confirmed, field crews measure the parcel and its improvements, and we deliver the boundary staking, map, ALTA survey, or CAD file the project calls for. See how the process works.
Beyond Artesia, we cover parcels across Los Angeles County — request a survey quote wherever the property is.
Survey scope and deliverables depend on title records, site conditions, and what your project requires. Call (213) 787-3342 to discuss the property and the survey you need.
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