The Addressing and Road Naming Program is responsible for assigning addresses to provide a uniform numbering system in order to protect the health, safety and welfare of those who live and work in the County. Such a system enhances the ability of emergency vehicles to respond rapidly to calls, provides for an orderly election process expedites postal and other delivery services and eliminates confusion and error in locating businesses and residences.
Addresses are assigned to provide a uniform numbering system to protect the health, welfare and safety of those who live and work in the County. Such a system enhances the ability of emergency vehicles to respond rapidly to calls, provides for an orderly election process, expedites postal and other delivery services and eliminates confusion and error in locating businesses and residences.
Part of the Building Permit Application Process is to submit a site/plot plan(PDF, 23KB) . You will be issued an address after you submit your site plan to the Building Department. Note: if the parcel is in a subdivision, it should be pre-addressed. In that case you do not need to submit a site plan. You should contact our office at (530) 621-5440 or email the Surveyor's Office at surveyor@edcgov.us to obtain the address.
Contact our office with the information that you have, especially your neighbors' addresses on both sides of you and across the street, including their driveway locations. You can also send a "Site Plan(PDF, 23KB) ".
If you are going to build on an unnamed road and the road serves two or more parcels, it should be named. There is a road name petition included in the document "Information Sheet For Naming A Private Or County Road(PDF, 231KB) ". You need to obtain signatures of approval from 51% of the owners of parcels that front the road to be named. Be sure to contact our office with your list of possible road names so we can screen and tentatively approve them prior to the Fire Department and Post Office approvals. There is a different application for naming roads as a result of a land division(PDF, 249KB) .
Private road signs are the responsibility of the homeowners. If one is missing, obtain a copy of the “Street Sign Design Standards(PDF, 47KB) ” and contact a private sign company to order a new sign. If the road is County Maintained, contact our office so we can notify the proper department to replace the sign.
The County of El Dorado Surveyor’s Office does not survey private property. You will need to contact a Professional Land Surveyor (or Civil Engineer Registered prior to 1982) licensed by the State Board of Registration. Most Land Surveyors in private practice are listed in the local Yellow Pages or click on the following lists.
List of Surveyors - California Land Surveyors Association
Surveyor Look-Up - California State Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors
Lots in Subdivisions and parcels of Parcel Maps are usually monumented by the Professional Land Surveyor at the time the division occurred. If you have a metes and bounds description (The division occurred by a deed rather than a map) you need to read the deed to see if monuments are called for in the description.
To ensure that all monuments are in the proper location you need to contact a Professional Land Surveyor (or Civil Engineer Registered prior to 1982) licensed by the State Board of Registration. Most Land Surveyors in private practice are listed in the local Yellow Pages or click on the following lists.
Private Land Surveyors(PDF, 169KB) - This list is compiled of local surveyors that have requested to have their contact information provided to the public.
Membership Listing - Surveyors Architects Geologists and Engineers of El Dorado County
Contact County of El Dorado Planning Services to verify that your land is zoned properly to divide. If the answer is yes, then you will need to contact a Professional Land Surveyor (or Civil Engineer Registered prior to 1982) licensed by the State Board of Registration.
The property corners have to be reset by a Professional Land Surveyor (or Civil Engineer Registered prior to 1982) licensed by the State Board of Registration. Most Land Surveyors in private practice are listed in the local Yellow Pages or click on the following lists.
We cannot recommend one surveyor over another. Professional Land Surveyors are licensed by the State Board of Registration and are able to practice anywhere in the state. Most Land Surveyors in private practice are listed in the local Yellow Pages or click on the following lists.
We can only address the fees associated with the County of El Dorado Surveyor’s Office. Other departments also have fees connected with a division of land. We have a map check fee for parcel maps and final maps (subdivisions). We also have a road petition fee that is generally associated with a land division. Please refer to our “Map Checking Fee Schedule(PDF, 107KB) ” for the actual fee.
It depends on our workload at the time your surveyor submits your map for map check. In general, it takes us approximately 3 to 4 weeks to process the first check on a map. Most survey maps take a minimum of two map checks.
Your property taxes will have to be prepaid before your map can be recorded with the County of El Dorado Recorder's Office.
The lien date on any parcel is January 1st of each year. The Subdivision Map Act, paraphrased, explains that before you can record your map with the County of El Dorado Recorder's Office, the County of El Dorado Tax Collector must sign a statement that there are no liens against the parcel or any part thereof for unpaid state, county, municipal or local taxes. See section 66492 of the Subdivision Map Act.
Easements are usually shown on the map of your property unless granted by a deed after the map has been recorded. If the easement was created by a deed you will need to refer to the description in the deed. Another source of information is your title report, look it over to see how they have described the different easements. Public Utilities Easements may also cross your property in which case you may be able to call the appropriate utility company for information. If you are under construction and just trying to find where existing utilities are, call the "Underground Service Alert" at 1-800-227-2600 before you dig.
Since property disputes are a civil matter between the parties, we can only suggest the following. First verify the encroachment by contacting a Professional Land Surveyor (or Civil Engineer Registered prior to 1982) licensed by the State Board of Registration. Secondly try to contact your neighbor to work it out between yourselves. Thirdly you may need to contact an Attorney.
If the easement is a public easement offered to the County of El Dorado you will need to do an "Abandonment of Easement" through the County Surveyor's Office. If the easement is shown but not offered to the County on a Parcel Map then a “Map Amendment for Parcel or Subdivision Map” may be needed.
The Geographic Information Systems Program is responsible for designing, developing, and delivering maps, apps, and data to the county departments, outside agencies, and the general public. From tabular data sets we create maps and create tabular data sets from maps. Many members of the public do not know that this resource exists. If you are interested in maps or data, please contact the Surveyor's Office at (530) 621-5440 or our email us at gis@edcgov.us.
G.I.S. is located in the Surveyor's Department at the main County of El Dorado Government Center:
Surveyor’s Department 360 Fair Lane, Bldg. B Placerville, CA. 95667
You can contact the Surveyor's Office at gis@edcgov.us or by phone at (530) 621-5440.
You may also come into our office located in the Surveyor's Department:
We provide application support, general assistance, GIS addressing, GIS parcel base, mapping and analysis.
There are time and material fees. We bill at $116.00/hour with a one-hour minimum for all new work. Reprints of existing maps have a set-up fee of $25.00 plus the costs of the paper. Paper map costs are determined based on size and range from $1.00 to $10.00 per copy. Data extracts and reports always incur at least a one-hour minimum plus the cost of the medium. CD/DVD and other recording media vary from $1.00 to $9.00. See our "Geographic Information System Fee Schedule(PDF, 107KB) " for other related fees.
There is a wide variety of data and maps available upon request and typically a fee will be applied. These data are not available for download from the Internet, but there are GIS clip and extract capabilities at https://see-eldorado.edcgov.us/ugotnet/. If you are looking for custom maps or the data you are looking for is not available, contact us: gis@edcgov.us
That depends on the complexity and level of detail required. Please call for an estimate.
All projects are done on a one-time delivery basis only. We do back-up and archive our work where feasible and have recovered projects as old as five years, but we do not guarantee the availability of a project or its required data to be available after the initial delivery.