Butte County
Assessor's Office
Property assessment data, parcel information, and assessor maps.
Recorder's Office
Recorded documents including deeds, maps, easements, and CC&Rs.
GIS / Parcel Viewer
Interactive online map with parcel boundaries, aerial imagery, and data layers.
County Surveyor
Records of Survey, Corner Records, and survey-related filings.
Surveys page (Public Works / Development Services). Recorded survey/parcel/subdivision maps via Clerk-Recorder or the GIS Recorded Maps layer. Records by request.
California Survey Requirements & Records
The statewide rules that govern surveys, maps, and monuments in Butte County — plus our recorded-maps archive.
Search our archive of Records of Survey, parcel maps, and tract maps on file.
Parcel & tract map requirements, when a map is required, and recording rules.
Records of Survey, Corner Records, and monument preservation duties.
Butte County falls in CCS Zone 2. Zones, naming, and usage rules.
Water, road, and easement boundaries; accretion, avulsion, and lateral support.
Boundary evidence priority: monuments, courses, distances, and area.
Recorded Map Examples in Butte County
Every map type Butte County records, with a real example on file where one has been archived.
Subdivision & Tentative Parcel Map Requirements
Municipal code citations, submittal checklists, and fees for the county and its largest city.
Butte County
Tentative parcel maps: Butte County Code of Ordinances, Chapter 20 (Subdivisions), Article V — Parcel Maps, beginning at Sec. 20-100 'Approval of parcel maps.' (Tentative parcel map procedures also cross-referenced from Article IV — Subdivision Maps, Sec. 20-67 et seq.) Mirrored on the county's secondary code host at https://online.encodeplus.com/regs/buttecounty-ca/doc-viewer.aspx?secid=760
Submittal checklist →Municode is the county's official code host (confirmed via Municode search results showing Chapter 20 Article IV 'Subdivision Maps' and Article V 'Parcel Maps'). Full section text of Sec. 20-100 could not be rendered by WebFetch (JS-loaded viewer), but the section number/title and article placement were corroborated independently via the county's encodeplus.com mirror. The checklist PDF was downloaded and verified with pdftotext: it is a 7-page 'Butte County Public Works Land Development Division Parcel Map Checklist' (and includes a companion Subdivision Map Checklist) covering statements, map title, map body, easements/conditions, and mathematical accuracy requirements.
Single primary source: downloaded the county's official Master Fee Schedule PDF (effective October 1, 2025) and extracted text with pdftotext. Three separate line items apply to a parcel map: Development Services/Planning Division 'Tentative Parcel Map/Waiver of Parcel Map' = $320 per map (User Fee); Public Works Development Application Fees 'Parcel Map' = $874 each; Public Works Checking Fees 'Final Parcel Map' = $175/hour with a $1,049 deposit. No independent second source (e.g. a staff report) was found restating these exact figures — flagged as single-sourced though the source is the authoritative fee resolution itself.
Extracted via curl + pdftotext from the Butte County Clerk-Recorder's official fee schedule PDF, effective January 1, 2026, under the 'Filing of Maps' fee category (distinct from the general per-page document recording fee of $15 first page/$3 additional found in an older cached web summary — the map-specific fee is $50/$15 per the current live PDF). Single primary source; no independent second source found restating this exact figure, though it is the county's own current fee resolution.
City of Chico
Tentative parcel maps: Chico Municipal Code Title 18 (Subdivisions), Chapter 18.16 'Tentative Maps', Sec. 18.16.020 'Subdivisions for which a tentative and final map or parcel map are required,' with final map/parcel map processing addressed in Chapter 18.07 (Sec. 18.07.040 Vesting Tentative Subdivision Map, 18.07.050 Finance Map, 18.07.060 Final Map). Title 18 was comprehensively updated/re-adopted September 2023.
Submittal checklist →WebFetch could not render codelibrary.amlegal.com directly (returns a bot-check/403 page both via WebFetch and curl), so section numbers/titles were corroborated instead via multiple distinct search-result snippets independently citing the same section numbers and titles (18.16.020, 18.07.040/050/060), plus the city's own 2023 Planning Commission subdivision-ordinance-update staff report confirming Title 18 was updated in September 2023. No dedicated standalone 'checklist' PDF was found; the city instead publishes a combined 'Tentative Map (Parcel Map, Subdivision Map, Urban Lot Split/SB9)' application packet (linked) that functions as the submittal requirements document.
Downloaded and extracted via pdftotext from the City of Chico's official 'Planning Fees Brochure' effective July 7, 2025 (linked from the Planning Division's Fees & Forms page), under 'Land Divisions / Subdivisions' — listed as 'Tentative Parcel Map $15,225.00' (full-cost-recovery flat fee model; a separate 'Tentative Subdivision Map' line item is $30,742.00). Single primary source; no second corroborating source found.
Chico has no independent city recorder; all real property recording, including parcel and final maps within city limits, is handled by the Butte County Clerk-Recorder's office (see county recordingFee above for sourcing).
Surveyor's Toolbox
Research tools that pair with county records — look up licensees, run coordinate work, and pull federal land records.
Search California PLS licensees by name or license number — match a surveyor of record.
State plane, geodetic, and grid-to-ground coordinate calculators.
Chains, rods, varas, US survey feet, and metric conversions.
Curve, traverse, area, and other everyday survey computations.
Field-tested calculator programs for COGO and curve stakeout.
Curated library of authoritative surveying links — BLM, NGS, Caltrans, and more.
Verify any CA land surveyor or engineer license (DCA search).
Original GLO plats, field notes, and federal land patents.
Geodetic control station datasheets from the National Geodetic Survey.
Statewide GIS data layers — parcels, boundaries, imagery, and more.