Land Surveyor in St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis split from St. Louis County in 1876 and has stood on its own ever since, so the city is not part of any county. That history still shapes land records today. Deeds and plats for property inside city limits are filed with the City of St. Louis Recorder of Deeds at City Hall on Market Street, not in Clayton. Legal descriptions here often cite a numbered city block, and a land surveyor working in the city has to be comfortable tracing lots through that block system and through very old subdivision plats.

Much of the housing stock is brick, built tight to the lot line. In Soulard, Benton Park, Lafayette Square, Tower Grove and Dutchtown, rowhouses share party walls, gangways run between buildings and rear yards open onto public alleys. Small errors matter on a twenty-five-foot lot. Owners call about fences along an alley, garages that may straddle a line, or a vacant lot next door they hope to buy from the Land Reutilization Authority. Survey Coordinator takes the request, confirms your price and sends a licensed surveyor from our team or network.

Water shapes the edges of the city. The Mississippi River runs the full eastern side, with a floodwall protecting downtown and the industrial riverfront. On the south side, the River Des Peres was channeled and partly buried in the early twentieth century, yet heavy storms still push it over its banks, as happened during the July 2022 flash flooding. Homes in the lower neighborhoods near that channel may sit in a mapped flood area, which is when an elevation certificate becomes useful.