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Surveyor's Office

440 Third Street • Room 400 • Columbus, IN 47201
Phone 812-379-1525 • Fax 812-379-1526

• Perpetuates and maintains section corners as required by State Law.
• Maintains Bench Mark data files
• Provides horizontal base line data to land surveyors.

• Maintains files for "legal surveys" in the county, as required by State Law.
• Prepares land surveys at the request of the County Commissioners that do not pertain to the County Subdivision Control Ordinance
• Surveys right-of-way and control lines for new road and bridge construction
• Prepares Administrative Subdivisions of newly acquired county road right-of-way
• Provides plats, topographic surveys and construction stakeout for County Park Board
• Coordinates with the Bartholomew County Prosecutor, the Bartholomew County Sheriff's Department, and the City of Columbus Police Department to determine the location of drug arrest with respect to school grounds
• Certifies that a new Alcoholic Beverage Permit is within one (1) mile radius of a settlement or group of residences in the unincorporated area that has been in existence for more than 10 years prior to the Indiana Alcoholic Beverage Commission issuing the permit in an unincorporated area, as required by State Law.

• Ex officio member of the County Drainage Board, as required by State Law.
• Manages the construction, reconstruction and maintenance of all County Regulated (Legal) Drains for the County Drainage Board, as required by State Law.
• Supervises investments of the Regulated Drain Assessments
• Member of the Flood Plain Technical Review Committee, Bartholomew County Storm Water Drainage Committee and serves on two joint Drainage Boards with potential to serve on two additional joint Drainage Boards
• Investigates alleged drainage obstructions petitioned for removal by property owners, as required by State Law.

• Checks technical aspects (surveying) of plats filed with the Plan Department; Maintains Auditor's Plat Books and handles all technical land surveying issues concerning them
• Maintains the Voter Precinct Maps, as required by State Law.
• GIS Mapping Coordinator
• Maintains annexation descriptions and dis-annexation descriptions for each city and town and must certify to the State Election Board the annexations and the census tracts involved, as required by State Law.

• Member of the County Subdivision Review Committee, Subdivision Regulations Committee, the County Zoning Ordinance Review Committee, and the County Plat Committee
• Member of the County Plan Commission, as required by State Law.
• Prepares all "Plats of Subdivision" of county land in accordance with the County Subdivision Control Ordinance
• Liaison to City of Columbus, Plan Commission by appointment of the Bartholomew County Plan Commission.

• Manages three budgets (Surveyor's, Drainage Board and Section Corner Perpetuation Fund)
• Continually called on by the public concerning: Land surveying in general; Drainage in general; Property-deed description interpretation, etc.; County subdivision control ordinance, survey requirements; Types of maps available of the county and city; Alley and right-of-way location.
• Document the location of all known burial sites in the county.