Find a Licensed Land Surveyor in Kansas

In Kansas, land surveyors are licensed by the Kansas State Board of Technical Professions, the same board that licenses engineers, architects, geologists and landscape architects. Only a licensed professional surveyor can legally establish or retrace property boundaries in the state. Survey Coordinator does not do survey work itself. It refers property owners, builders and businesses to independent, licensed local surveyors who carry their own Kansas license. The surveyor you hire is responsible for the work and signs and seals the final drawing.

The board has adopted minimum standards for boundary surveys through its regulations (K.A.R. 66-12-1), which incorporate standards from the Kansas Society of Land Surveyors. These set baseline expectations for things like monuments, legal descriptions and what a finished survey must show. Kansas law also asks surveyors who use a U.S. public land survey corner to file a corner reference report with the county surveyor and the state, which helps preserve those corners for the next survey.

Land records in Kansas are kept county by county. Each county has a Register of Deeds who records deeds, mortgages, plats and easements. In Wyandotte County that office is part of the Unified Government with Kansas City, Kansas. A surveyor will typically start by pulling the recorded deed and plat for your parcel, plus those of neighboring lots, before visiting the site. Those records, together with any monuments found in the field, are what the boundary is based on.