Los Angeles County · Land Surveying
The City of Industry was incorporated in 1957 to do exactly what its name says: over 3,000 businesses and tens of thousands of jobs on parcels built for logistics, manufacturing, and rail — with only a few hundred residents. Survey work here is commercial from end to end.
Industrial scopes start from documents — send the title report and the site address and we will take it from there. Call (213) 787-3342 to talk it through.
Industry stretches along the rail corridors of the eastern San Gabriel Valley on land once part of Rancho La Puente, and its geography is pure function: warehouses measured in acres, truck courts, spur tracks, and plants that have expanded phase by phase for decades. With roughly 264 residents and thousands of businesses, virtually every survey request is commercial.
The work concentrates where money changes hands or construction begins. Acquisitions and refinancings bring ALTA/NSPS title surveys keyed to dense title commitments. Expansions and retrofits bring as-built documentation and topographic mapping. New construction brings staking. And underneath all of it sit boundaries assembled from ranch-era conveyances, railroad deeds, and mid-century industrial subdivisions.
Six services cover Industry's commercial docket — three transactional, three for design and construction:
Industrial parcels here are frequently assemblies — original subdivision lots combined, street segments vacated, railroad strips conveyed and re-conveyed. Retracing an assembled holding means building the chain for each component and resolving one coherent perimeter from them. The parcels are large but the records are dense, and the research phase is where an Industry survey is won.
Title work carries the same density: utility easements serving multiple sites, rail agreements, reciprocal truck access, drainage rights along the channels. An ALTA/NSPS survey plots each recorded item where it physically falls, which is precisely what lenders and buyers need on parcels where a single easement can shape how a yard operates. Construction-side, topographic mapping and staking translate civil drawings into the dirt.
Industrial quotes are built from paper — the more complete this list, the tighter the number:
We build the record chain, confirm the ALTA items or mapping scope in writing, then schedule fieldwork around the site's operations. The broader sequence is on our how it works page.
Typical situations that bring Industry parcels to a surveyor:
We serve property throughout Industry and across Los Angeles County — request a survey quote for any parcel in the area.
A drawing, tied to the recorded parcel, showing the leased area's boundaries and dimensions — often with the building footprint, access, and parking called out. Landlords and tenants use it to remove ambiguity about exactly what ground the lease covers. We prepare it from the record and, where needed, field measurement.
As a boundary with an unusually well-papered neighbor. Railroad corridors carry their own conveyance history, and the parcel line along one is retraced from those documents alongside your own chain. Fieldwork near active track is planned conservatively; the measured result shows exactly where your parcel ends relative to the corridor.
With a current boundary resolution first, then construction staking from the approved plans. Tight-setback industrial expansions leave no room for assumption, so the line is established from the record before design finalizes, and layout points are set so the contractor builds to the engineering — with the tolerances agreed in scoping.
Yes — that is exactly what an as-built survey with topographic detail does. We map the pavement, structures, drainage, and utilities as they exist today, producing the single current base your engineers never inherited. Most phased sites eventually need one, usually right before the next phase.
Usually. We pull the recorded instrument, plot its described location against the modern parcel, and show where it falls relative to buildings and yard improvements. Whether the pipeline still operates is a question for the easement holder — but where its rights sit on your land is a survey answer.
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.
Send the title commitment and site details through the contact form or call (213) 787-3342; Southern California Land Surveyors will confirm scope, ALTA items, and schedule.