Land Surveyor in Edwardsville, Illinois

Edwardsville is one of the oldest towns in Illinois, incorporated in 1818, and its historic core reflects that. The Saint Louis Street Historic District lines one of the earliest roads in the city, and the LeClaire Historic District preserves N. O. Nelson's planned village of worker cottages. Homes in these areas sit on lots laid out long before modern platting rules, and fences, additions and detached garages have shifted over the decades. A property survey shows exactly where each improvement sits compared with the recorded lot.

Away from downtown, Edwardsville has spread across former farmland toward Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and the Glen Carbon line. Many of those newer subdivisions come with recorded easements for drainage and utilities, plus HOA rules about fences and pools. Buyers and owners planning a project often ask for a survey before signing anything. We confirm your price, then send a licensed surveyor from our team or network who already works around Edwardsville and knows how its subdivision plats are drawn.

Cahokia Creek flows past Edwardsville on its way south to the river bottoms, and smaller tributaries such as Judy's Branch drain neighbourhoods toward Glen Carbon. Homes near those channels can fall inside a mapped flood zone even where the creek looks small most of the year. As the Madison County seat, Edwardsville also keeps the county Recorder and planning offices downtown, which makes it simple to pull the deeds and plats a surveyor needs.