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Licensed Illinois land surveyors resolving property-line disputes, encroachments and fence disagreements across DeKalb and DeKalb County.
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DeKalb is the largest city in DeKalb County, blending a dense older grid near its center with student-area rentals and newer subdivisions on its margins, and that mix produces frequent line uncertainty. Fences installed decades apart, parking areas widened over time, and closely spaced urban lots make encroachments common between neighbors. A boundary dispute survey retraces the recorded lines and compares them to what has actually been built.
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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DeKalb has a population of about 40,290 and lies in DeKalb Township within DeKalb County, whose county seat is Sycamore. Recorded deeds and plats for DeKalb parcels are filed with the DeKalb County Recorder / Clerk & Recorder, and that record is the anchor for reconstructing a chain of title. The county is drained principally by the Kishwaukee River, with the South Branch passing through DeKalb, so parcels near those channels can involve floodplain corridors. When a fence, garage, or driveway is contested in DeKalb, our retracement compares the deeded lines to on-site monuments and improvements to resolve the matter with evidence.
On closely spaced urban lots, small differences matter. We retrace the platted line from the DeKalb County record and locate every relevant fence, wall, and structure against it, so any encroachment between neighbors is measured precisely.
A boundary dispute survey pinpoints the true line and shows exactly where the driveway sits relative to it. That documentation lets you and your neighbor, or your attorneys, address the encroachment on solid footing.
Deeds and plats for DeKalb are held by the DeKalb County Recorder / Clerk & Recorder in the county seat of Sycamore, and we research that record as part of the retracement.
Pi Surveying provides the full range of land surveying services for DeKalb 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.