Whether you're buying property, developing land, expanding an agricultural operation, building infrastructure, or planning your next project, accurate information about the land is essential.

That's where surveying comes in.

Surveying is often one of the first steps in a project, and one of the most important. Establishing property boundaries, understanding topography, locating improvements and utilities, documenting easements, and creating an accurate picture of the site provides the foundation other professionals need to plan, design, permit, and build.

At AGPROfessionals, our surveying team provides comprehensive land surveying services for agricultural, commercial, residential, municipal, and development projects. More importantly, our surveyors work alongside our engineers, land use planners, environmental consultants, real estate professionals, and agronomists to help clients move projects from concept to completion.

Surveying That Supports Your Entire Project

A survey is more than a map. It provides the information needed to make informed decisions about a property. Our surveyors help clients answer critical questions:

• Where are the property boundaries?
• What does the land look like?
• What improvements or features are already there?
• Where are easements and rights-of-way located?
• How can the property be developed?
• What information will engineers, planners, or contractors need to move forward?

The answers depend on the project, which is why AGPROfessionals offers a broad range of surveying services.

Land Boundary Surveys

Understanding exactly where property begins and ends is fundamental to land ownership and development. For land purchases and other real estate transactions, an accurate survey can help identify potential issues before they become expensive problems.

Our land boundary services include:

• ALTA/NSPS Land Title Surveys
• Land Survey Plats
• Improvement Survey Plats
• Subdivisions
• Lot Line Adjustments
• Exemptions
• Annexations
• Zone Changes

Our ALTA/NSPS Land Title Surveys provide a particularly comprehensive picture of a property, documenting boundaries, improvements, easements, access, rights-of-way, and other important features. For commercial, agricultural, and other complex land transactions, an ALTA Survey can provide valuable information for buyers, sellers, lenders, title companies, and other stakeholders.

Topographic Surveys: Understanding the Land

Knowing property boundaries is only part of understanding a site. Topographic surveys document the physical characteristics and elevations of the land, providing critical information for engineering, planning, drainage, construction, and development.

AGPROfessionals provides topographic surveying services to support:

• Engineering design
• Volume calculations
• Easement and right-of-way design or acquisition
• Construction development and design
• Use by Special Review (USR)

Accurate topographic information gives project teams a better understanding of existing site conditions before design and construction begin.

Construction Staking: Turning Plans Into Reality

Once a project moves from planning and design into construction, surveyors help ensure that what's being built is located where it is supposed to be. Construction staking translates plans into precise field locations, helping contractors and construction teams build according to the approved design.

AGPROfessionals provides construction staking services for:

• Agricultural projects
• Commercial projects
• Residential development
• Municipal projects
• Utility and energy projects
• Machine control

Our surveyors can also provide as-built surveys to document completed improvements and confirm what was actually constructed.

Specialized Surveying Services

Some projects require surveying services that don't fit neatly into a single category. These services can support property transactions, land planning, permitting, development, construction, and ongoing property management.

AGPROfessionals also provides:

• Legal descriptions
• Easements and rights-of-way
• Improvement Location Certificates (ILCs)
• Property pin locates
• Condominium surveys
• City and county land use applications and plats/mapping

More Than a Surveying Firm

One of the biggest advantages of working with AGPROfessionals is that surveying doesn't happen in isolation. Our surveyors work directly with professionals in engineering, planning and land use, environmental services, real estate, agronomy, and other disciplines.

That multidisciplinary approach can be particularly valuable for agricultural and rural development projects, where a survey is often just one piece of a much larger process.

Consider a client planning to expand a dairy, feedlot, ranch, development, or other business operation. Surveying may begin by documenting the property for purchase or planning purposes. From there, our surveyors may provide boundary and topographic information needed for land use planning and permitting, support engineering and utility design, prepare easement or right-of-way descriptions, and ultimately provide construction staking and as-built surveys.

As the client's needs change over time, the relationship can continue. A property may later need to be expanded, modified, subdivided, or developed differently. Because our teams work together, clients don't have to start over with a new firm every time another piece of the project arises.

The Technology Is Important. Experience Matters More.

Modern surveying combines proven surveying principles with increasingly sophisticated technology. Our survey team utilizes tools and technologies including high-precision GNSS positioning, robotic instruments, digital field collection, GIS, CAD, 3D data, drone imagery, and cloud-based workflows.

But technology is only part of the equation. A quality survey requires professionals who understand what the data means. Surveying demands technical knowledge, attention to detail, professional judgment, and an understanding of property records, legal descriptions, and the history of a property.

At AGPROfessionals, our team brings together decades of surveying experience with newer professionals developing their skills and bringing fresh perspectives and technology expertise. That combination helps us approach each project with both practical experience and modern tools.

Start With the Right Information

Every successful land project starts with understanding the property. Whether you need an ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey for a real estate transaction, a boundary or topographic survey for planning, construction staking for a new facility, or specialized surveying services for easements, subdivisions, or land use applications, AGPROfessionals can help determine what your project requires.

Our goal isn't simply to complete a survey and hand you a map.

Our goal is to provide accurate, useful information that helps you make decisions, solve problems, and move your project forward.

When you're ready to understand your land—and what's possible on it—start with the surveying experts at AGPROfessionals.

Learn More About AGPROfessionals Surveying Services: www.agpros.com/surveying

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If you're a survey professional, or you're interested in becoming one, we'd like to hear from you. Explore career opportunities with AGPROfessionals and discover where your surveying career could take you.

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