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Long Grove is a low-density village in the Ela Township uplands, drained by Indian Creek and Buffalo Creek tributaries. Flood exposure concentrates along those channels, marking where an Elevation Certificate is most applicable within the village.
A FEMA Elevation Certificate documents your building’s elevation relative to the Base Flood Elevation on the FEMA flood map. Insurers use it to rate flood policies and communities use it to confirm floodplain compliance; it can also support a Letter of Map Amendment (LOMA) to remove a structure from a flood zone.
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Long Grove has roughly 8,366 residents in Ela Township (also Vernon and Fremont townships), part of Lake County, seated at Waukegan. Where Indian Creek and Buffalo Creek tributaries create mapped floodplain, a surveyor’s Elevation Certificate documents a building’s lowest-floor elevation against the Base Flood Elevation. That record supports accurate flood-insurance rating, floodplain-development permit compliance, and a Letter of Map Amendment. Long Grove survey documents are recorded through the Recording Division of the Lake County Clerk’s Office.
Those along Indian Creek, Buffalo Creek, and other tributaries, where mapped flood hazard areas follow the channels, are the most common candidates for an Elevation Certificate.
It is a surveyor-completed FEMA form documenting a building’s elevation relative to the Base Flood Elevation for insurance and floodplain use.
A licensed professional land surveyor performs the measurements and certifies the FEMA form.
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