Licensed Land Surveyors in Illinois' Metro East

Our Illinois coverage is centred on the Metro East, the stretch of Madison and St. Clair counties that faces St. Louis across the Mississippi. It runs from the river towns and floodplain of the American Bottom up the bluffs to Edwardsville, Collinsville, Belleville and O'Fallon. You send one request, we confirm the price and timing, and a licensed surveyor from our team or network who holds an Illinois license handles the field work and seals the drawing. We deliver it and send a single invoice.

Illinois regulates the profession under the Illinois Professional Land Surveyor Act of 1989, administered by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR). Only a licensed Professional Land Surveyor may establish or re-establish property lines and set boundary monuments. The administrative rules in 68 Ill. Adm. Code 1270 include minimum standards of practice for surveying and mapping work, and IDFPR's online license lookup lets anyone check that a surveyor's license is active. Illinois surveyor licenses all renew on the same cycle, ending November 30 of odd-numbered years.

Land records in Illinois are kept county by county, so the office that holds your deed depends on where the parcel sits: the Madison County Recorder in Edwardsville or the St. Clair County Recorder of Deeds in Belleville. Two regional quirks shape Metro East jobs. Both counties sit over old underground coal workings, and both are on the state's list of counties where mine subsidence coverage is built into property insurance. Lower ground near the river also relies on a levee system rebuilt by the Southwestern Illinois Flood Prevention District, which affects how flood zones are mapped.