Property Boundary Guides

How to Find Your Property Lines Without a Survey

Check your deed, plat map, county GIS, and property pins to locate boundaries on your own.

Can You Find Property Lines on Your Phone?

Phone-based tools for viewing property boundaries, from GIS apps to augmented reality.

How to Find Property Lines Online for Free

Use county GIS portals and public parcel viewers to look up boundaries at no cost.

How to Find Property Pins and Markers

Locate iron rods, pipes, and survey caps at your property corners using a metal detector and plat map.

How to Find Property Lines in the Woods

Tips for locating boundaries in wooded terrain using blazed trees, old markers, and GPS.

How Accurate Are Property Line Apps?

What to expect from GPS-based property apps and when you need survey-grade precision.

How Much Does a Land Survey Cost?

Typical costs for boundary, topographic, and ALTA surveys, plus what affects the price.

How to Read a Property Plat Map

Understand lot lines, dimensions, easements, and common symbols on a plat map.

What Is an Easement on a Property?

Types of easements, how they're created, and what they mean for your property rights.

Do I Need a Survey to Build a Fence?

When a survey is recommended before installing a fence and what can go wrong without one.

Property Line vs. Fence Line: What's the Difference?

Why fences don't always sit on the property line and what that means for you.

Can a Neighbor Build a Fence on the Property Line?

Shared fence rules, local ordinances, and what to do before a fence goes up.

What to Do When a Neighbor Builds on Your Property

Steps to take when you discover an encroachment, from confirming the line to legal options.

How to Settle a Property Line Dispute

Practical approaches from informal resolution to mediation and boundary line agreements.

What Is Adverse Possession?

How someone can claim ownership of land through long-term, open use without permission.