Missouri Land Survey Drafting
Land Survey Drafting in Missouri
Land survey drafting in Missouri for Professional Land Surveyors and their firms. We draft boundary, subdivision, condominium, and ALTA/NSPS plats from your field data and records. You give initial direction, supervise each step, review and correct the drawings, and sign and seal them.
Overview
What is Land Survey Drafting in Missouri?
We turn your Missouri field data, deeds, and record plats into CAD plats, topographic maps, and Surveyor's Real Property Reports. Your PLS specifies the deliverable, urban or rural property class, and local checklist.
The drawing retains your PLSS, private-claim, or subdivision references and ties. We add found/set monument notes, adjoiner records, scales, and the standards statement you provide, with lettering legible at recording size.
Our land survey drafting services, including ALTA/NSPS plats, are supplied only to PLSs and their firms. Under 20 CSR 2030-13.020, the PLS or firm deals directly with the surveying client. The PLS provides initial direction and input at each step, makes surveying decisions, and reviews and corrects the final sheets.
At a glance
- Land recordsPLSS on the Fifth Principal Meridian, plus private claims
- CoordinatesSPCS 83 East, Central, or West; meters or international feet
- Plat rulesMissouri Standards, 20 CSR 2030-16
- RegulatorAPEPLSPLA board (PLS license, certificate of authority)
- DeliveryDWG or DGN plus PDF; your sealed plat takes precedence over CAD files
- Your roleClient contact, direction at each step, review, and seal
What we deliver
What's included in Missouri Survey Drafting
Send your field data, deeds, record plats, property class, and checklist. We return progress sets for the PLS's input before preparation is complete.
Boundary Plat Drafting
Plats of survey with your corner calls, adjoiner records, possession-line variations, property class, and standards statement. You supply any justified deviation note.
ALTA/NSPS Survey Drafting
ALTA/NSPS plats to your contracted scope and Table A items, retaining Missouri's boundary-plat content and supplied curve directions.
Boundary Adjustment & Lot Split Plats
Boundary adjustment, consolidation, lot split, and riparian plats with your new-parcel descriptions and local minor-subdivision blocks.
Subdivision Plat Drafting
Subdivision plats with numbered and dimensioned lots, owner acknowledgment, and the city or county approval blocks required for your application.
Condominium Plat Drafting
Condominium plats showing your datum, unit boundaries, limited common elements, planned-improvement labels, and RSMo 448.2-109 statement.
Surveyor's Real Property Reports
Drawings for the PLS's Surveyor's Real Property Report, also called a mortgage inspection report, with improvement dimensions, uncertainty, apparent encroachments, and required limitations.
Topographic Map Drafting
Topographic maps from your points and breaklines, at your specified scale and contour interval. The PLS supplies any map-accuracy class and certification note.
Certified Land Corner Document Sketches
Certified Land Corner Document sketches from your corner and witness-tie data, with known State Plane coordinates for your check and filing.
Why it matters
How Missouri's board rules and recorders shape a plat
The Missouri professional licensing board sets the Missouri Standards for Property Boundary Surveys (20 CSR 2030-16). We draft the required content and your deviation notes. Your signed and sealed plat takes precedence over the CAD data file.
The supervision rule requires continuing PLS control and input during preparation, plus final review and corrections. The PLS or firm must deal directly with the client; the PLS cannot be hired solely to approve work completed by the client's unlicensed employee or contractor.
Specify SPCS 83 East, Central, or West and the units. Missouri's corner rules use the international foot where coordinates are in feet.
Supply the control stations, reference frame and epoch, method, and applicable grid factor for your State Plane note.
You determine the urban or rural class. Urban includes property wholly or partly within municipal limits and commercial, industrial, or multi-unit developments; rural is not simply any land outside a city.
Send your firm's title block, printed licensee details, seal space, and certificate-of-authority number where required.
You control signed releases. A signed native CAD file needs the required verifiable digital signature; a scanned signature is not a substitute in editable CAD.
Tell us which plat must be recorded and send the recorder's current sheet and media requirements. We prepare the drawing; you handle filing.
Where it applies
Industries We Serve
Land Surveying Firms
CAD support for Missouri PLS firms preparing boundary plats, Real Property Reports, and Certified Land Corner Document sketches.
Land Development
Subdivision, boundary adjustment, and lot split drawings for developers' PLSs.
Title & Lending
Surveyor's Real Property Reports and ALTA/NSPS plats for the PLS serving lending and title clients.
Condominiums
Condominium plats for the PLS, using the statutory unit, datum, common-element, and planned-improvement information.
Municipal & County Review
Local review sheets for the PLS, including St. Louis County acknowledgment and approval blocks or Kansas City plat requirements.
Transportation & Utilities
Right-of-way, pipeline, and utility drawings for the responsible PLS, in AutoCAD or MicroStation to the agency's CAD standard.
How it works
Our End-to-End Process
Scope & Standards
You tell us the plat type, the county and city, the urban or rural class, the State Plane zone and foot, and the checklist that applies.
Data Transfer
Send field data, coordinate files, deeds, record plats, the title commitment, and your CAD template and title block.
Drafting
We draft linework, annotation, curve data, and notes in AutoCAD, Civil 3D, or MicroStation, checking in with you at each step you set.
Quality Check
We check closure, labels, lettering height, and notes against your data and the checklist, then send PDF check prints marked preliminary for your redlines.
Approval & Delivery
We revise to your redlines until you approve, then deliver the final DWG or DGN and PDF files to you. You sign, seal, and release the plat.
Why Arcengine
Why Choose Us
Fixed Price, No Hidden Costs
We set the price before work starts and add no charges later.
Clean, Checked Drawings
Clear linework and legible labels, checked against your field data before you see them.
Experienced Survey Drafters
Our team has drafted for surveying firms in the U.S. and abroad.
Deadlines Kept
We agree on the deadline with you before work starts, and we meet it.
Open to Feedback
We take your redlines and rework the drawing until it matches what you need.
Your Software & Templates
We work in AutoCAD, Civil 3D, and MicroStation, on your title block and layer standards.
Start with a Pilot Project
Start with a pilot project to check our drafting against your standards.
You Stay Surveyor of Record
You direct each step, then approve the final drawing, sign it, and seal it.
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FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
No. Arcengine holds neither a Missouri PLS license nor a surveying certificate of authority and supplies CAD drafting only. The PLS or firm deals directly with the surveying client. The PLS gives initial direction, supervises each step, reviews and corrects the final sheets, and signs and seals the plat. This is not a completed-drawing approval service. Landowners should hire a Missouri PLS.
No. We take work from Missouri PLSs and their firms. The PLS or firm must deal directly with the surveying client, and the PLS cannot be hired solely to approve work prepared by the client's unlicensed employee or contractor. Confirm how 20 CSR 2030-13.020 applies to your arrangement with the board or counsel.
We use your specified system and units, including SPCS 83 East (2401), Central (2402), or West (2403) in meters or international feet. NGS has finalized SPCS2022 definitions, but modernized tools remain beta. We preserve supplied coordinates and place your control, reference-frame, epoch, method, and grid-factor notes.
Yes, for the PLS with the required borrower- or purchaser-signed work order. The report covers eligible detached houses, duplexes, triplexes, and fourplexes, with one dwelling structure on a previously surveyed and recorded parcel. We draft improvements and apparent encroachments with dimensions, uncertainty, and the required statements that it is not a boundary survey and no corners were set. You sign, seal, and date it.
Yes, for the PLS on the job. Send the current recorder or city checklist so we can set the media, lettering, certificates, and approval blocks. Forward agency comments with your instructions and we revise the drawing for your review and resubmittal.
Project assurance
How your project is handled.
We work from your field data, templates and instructions. You direct, review and approve the drawings.
How we protect project information- In-house delivery
- An Arcengine drafting team handles your work.
- NDA protection
- Project information handled under an NDA.
- E&O insured
- Professional liability insurance in place.
- CAD standards checked
- Drawings checked against your templates and markups.
Get in touch
Land survey drafting in Missouri, ready for your seal
Send your field data, records, property class, coordinate basis, and local checklist. We return DWG or DGN and PDF drawings under your PLS's continuing direction for review.