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Licensed Illinois land surveyors resolving property-line disputes, encroachments and fence disagreements across Evanston and Cook County.
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Evanston’s dense, historic neighborhoods sit on lots platted well over a century ago, where coach houses, garages and fences crowd close to lines that were drawn long before current improvements. A garage built to the corner or a fence set generations back can end up past the recorded boundary, and on lots this close, the resulting dispute is real. A boundary dispute survey retraces the true line from the deeds, the early plats and the monuments still in the ground.
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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Evanston is a lakefront city of about 78,110 residents on the northern border of Cook County, adjoining Chicago; its township was abolished in 2014 and its functions folded into the city. Many of its neighborhoods date to the city’s early development, so tightly platted older lots carry fences, coach houses and garages that no longer track their corners, making encroachment questions common. The deeds, plats and prior surveys used to retrace a contested boundary are recorded with the Cook County Clerk’s Recordings Division. Because the record here can be layered across generations of plats, recovering the monuments on site and reconciling them with that record is essential to a defensible determination.
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Many Evanston lots were platted more than a century ago and built tight, with garages, coach houses and fences close to the line. Over generations these drift, and a boundary dispute survey re-establishes where the recorded line truly runs.
Yes. Sealed by an Illinois Professional Land Surveyor and grounded in the deed and plat research plus field evidence, it is prepared as a defensible determination that attorneys and courts can rely on.
The determination rests on the recorded evidence and the monuments found, not on either owner’s opinion, so it does not shift because a neighbor objects. It gives you an authoritative basis to resolve the matter by agreement or, if needed, through the courts.
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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.