Los Angeles County · Land Surveying
Inglewood incorporated in 1908 on the lands of two Mexican-era ranchos, and its 1834 Centinela Adobe still stands. Today the city pairs that deep record with the region's most watched redevelopment — the stadium district rising where Hollywood Park raced for 75 years.
Home, fourplex, or corridor building — describe the project and we will size the survey to it. Call (213) 787-3342 to talk it through.
The city's chain of title begins with Rancho Aguaje de la Centinela and Rancho Sausal Redondo, consolidated by Daniel Freeman in the 1880s and subdivided into the townsite that incorporated in 1908. That history persists in the records — older deeds still cite the ranchos — and in the Centinela Adobe, the area's oldest building.
The present is transformation. Hollywood Park's racetrack closed in 2013 and its acreage became the stadium district, pulling investment, traffic, and construction into the surrounding neighborhoods. For property owners, change at that scale makes measured certainty more valuable, not less: lines, setbacks, and documented baselines hold steady while everything around them moves.
The requests that reach us from Inglewood:
Inglewood's residential fabric is dense and mature: compact lots, duplexes and fourplexes, and a century of additions that make as-built questions routine. Retracement works from townsite-era and later subdivision maps with the usual thinning evidence; the rancho ancestry surfaces mainly in older descriptions, where the deeper chain explains what the modern maps inherited.
The commercial docket concentrates along the corridors and around the entertainment venues, where values and transactions have both accelerated. ALTA/NSPS surveys key their scope to title commitments that can carry decades of accumulated instruments; as-built and site plan work supports the remodels and conversions that rising activity brings. Streets themselves have changed too — widenings and improvements around the district are recorded takes we retrace.
Six services carry the city's mix — lines and setbacks for the neighborhoods, documentation for the corridors:
Construction next door does not move your lines — but it does make documenting them worthwhile. A current survey fixes your boundary and improvements as a measured baseline, which is valuable when streets change, values climb, and future projects raise questions about what was where, when.
Entirely — older Inglewood descriptions often anchor to the rancho partitions the townsite was carved from. Your boundary still resolves from the recorded subdivision maps; the rancho reference is ancestry the research acknowledges rather than an obstacle. It usually signals a lot with a long, traceable chain.
The boundary retraced, the building and site improvements located, parking documented, and any easements plotted — packaged as the lender requires, often to ALTA/NSPS standards. Multifamily sales here move quickly when the survey answers arrive before the underwriter's questions do.
The recorded instruments say precisely: widenings are documented takes and dedications, and we retrace your corner as it exists after them. Owners near the venues sometimes plan from pre-improvement dimensions — the survey replaces those with the frontage you actually own today.
We locate the line and the wall to the inch and map their relationship — who owns which portion, and by how much the wall strays, if it does. Shared-wall situations are common on dense blocks, and every path to resolving one starts with that measured picture.
Any of these tighten the quote; none are prerequisites:
Record research first — chains here can reach the ranchos — then a confirmed scope, fieldwork, and delivery. The pattern is on our how it works page.
We serve property throughout Inglewood and across Los Angeles County — request a survey quote for any parcel in the area.
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.
Call (213) 787-3342 with the address and the situation, and Southern California Land Surveyors will propose the survey that fixes your facts in place.