1. Title of survey,
property location, scale, north point, certification, and date.
2. Tract boundary lines, courses, and distances.
Error of traverse closure shall not
exceed 1:10,000.
Calculate and show acreage.
3. Building setback lines, easements, and
rights-of-way.
4. Names of on-site and abutting parcel owners.
5. Names and locations of existing streets on or
abutting the tract. Show
right-of-way, type and
width of surfacing, curbs and curb heights, and centerline
of gutters and ditches.
6. Position and shape of all buildings with
windows, doors, down spouts, electrical
outlets, meters, control
panels, hose bibs, vents, utilities entrances and boxes,
transformers, yard lights,
etc. All other physical structures to be shown,
including foundations, piers, bridges,
culverts, wells, and cisterns.
7. Location of all site construction, including
walls, fences, roads, drives, curbs,
gutters, steps, walks,
trails, paved areas, etc., indicating types of materials or
surfacing.
8. Locations, types. sizes, and direction of
flow of existing storm and sanitary
sewers on or contiguous to
the tract, giving top and invert elevations of
manholes and inlet and invert
elevations of other drainage structures including
septic tanks and tile fields
with cleanouts and vents; location, ownership, type,
and size of water and gas
mains, manholes, wells and pumps with sizes and
capacities, valve boxes,
meter boxes, hydrants, and other appurtenances;
locations of utility poles
and telephone, electrical, and cable TV lines and
satellite dishes, fire alarm
and security alarm boxes and mailboxes. For utilities
not traversing the site
indicate, by key plan if necessary, the nearest off-site
leads, giving all pertinent
information on types, sizes, inverts, and ownership.
9. Locations of water bodies, streams, springs,
swamps, or boggy areas and
drainage ditches or swales.
10. Outline of wooded areas and plant beds. Within areas so
noted, show all trees
that have a trunk diameter of
4 inches or greater at waist height, giving
approximate trunk diameters,
spread at dripline, and common names of the
trees and an evaluation of
their physical condition. All shrubs will be located
and diameter and heights
shown as well as common names.
11. Road elevations. Elevations shall be taken at 50-foot
intervals along centerlines
of roads, flow line of gutter
on property side, and tops and bottoms of curbs.
The pertinent grades of
abutting street and road intersections shall also be
shown.
12. Ground surface elevations shall be taken on a 50-foot
grid system as well as at
the top and bottom of
all considerable breaks in grade, whether vertical as in
walls or sloping as in
banks. Show all floor elevations for buildings. Spot
elevations shall be
indicated at the finished grade of building corners, building
entrance platforms, and
all walk intersections. In addition to elevations
required, the map shall
show contours at 2-foot vertical intervals. All elevations
shall be to the nearest
tenth of a foot. Permissible tolerance shall be one tenth
of a foot for spot
elevations and half of the contour interval for contours.
Topo Survey Spec 2005
