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Licensed Illinois land surveyors resolving property-line disputes, encroachments and fence disagreements across Ottawa and LaSalle County.
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Sitting where the Fox River meets the Illinois, Ottawa carries a deep stack of deed history, and property lines platted generations ago do not always match the fences and driveways in place today. Boundary questions here often surface when an older in-town lot changes hands or when a riverside parcel is redeveloped and the record no longer squares with what is on the ground. A retracement survey pins the true corners against the deed and the physical evidence before a disagreement hardens.
A boundary dispute survey is a careful retracement of your property lines, backed by research of deeds, prior surveys and physical evidence. It gives you — and, if needed, your attorney — a defensible determination of where the true boundary lies.
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Ottawa is the seat of LaSalle County and, with roughly 18,840 residents, the largest community in this rural stretch of north-central Illinois. It spans several townships, including South Ottawa, Dayton, Rutland and Wallace, and its plats range from tight nineteenth-century town lots to farm parcels on the edges of the city. Deeds and prior plats of survey are filed with the LaSalle County Recorder of Deeds, whose Ottawa office is the primary record source when we retrace a line. Because the Illinois and Fox rivers run through town, some disputes also touch on where a mapped waterway or flood boundary sits relative to a private line, which a careful survey can clarify.
Yes. Many Ottawa parcels were platted well over a century ago, so we start with the recorded deed and any prior plats of survey at the LaSalle County Recorder of Deeds, then locate the physical corners and evidence to determine where the true line falls.
A retracement survey establishes the actual boundary from the deed record and monuments found on the ground. If the fence sits over the line, the survey documents by how much, giving you and your neighbor, or your attorneys, an objective basis to resolve it.
A plat of survey signed and sealed by an Illinois Professional Land Surveyor is the standard evidentiary record of a boundary and is regularly relied on by attorneys and courts in encroachment and line disputes.
Pi Surveying provides the full range of land surveying services for Ottawa property owners and builders:
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Pi Surveying, located in Oak Brook, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, is a professional land surveying design firm that provides land surveys for both the private and commercial sector.