El Dorado 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.
Dedicated County Surveyor office with a Land Survey Program. Recorded maps searchable via the Recorder Official Records Index; parcel/GIS at parcel.edcgov.us.
California Survey Requirements & Records
The statewide rules that govern surveys, maps, and monuments in El Dorado 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.
El Dorado 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 El Dorado County
Every map type El Dorado County records, with a real example on file where one has been archived.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.
El Dorado County
Tentative parcel maps: Title 120 (Subdivisions), Article II (Minor Land Divisions) — Chapter 120.48, Tentative Maps (Sec. 120.48.010 et seq.), and Chapter 120.52, Parcel Maps. Confirmed live via direct browser navigation to https://library.municode.com/ca/el_dorado_county/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=TIT120SU_CH120.48TEMA (heading "CHAPTER 120.48. - TENTATIVE MAPS", first section "Sec. 120.48.010. - Application.").
Submittal checklist →The county's Title 120 was formerly codified as Title 16 (last major revision Feb. 2009, PDF at https://www.eldoradocounty.ca.gov/files/assets/county/v/1/documents/land-use/planning-amp-zoning/so.pdf, ARTICLE II MINOR LAND DIVISIONS: Ch. 16.48 Tentative Maps, Ch. 16.52 Parcel Maps) and was later renumbered 1:1 onto Municode as Title 120 (16.XX -> 120.XX, verified pattern e.g. old 16.16 Improvements = new 120.16 Improvements). Municode is a JS single-page app so a plain fetch/curl of the URL returns an app shell — content was verified by actually loading the page in a browser and reading the rendered chapter heading. The tentative-parcel-map.pdf is Planning Services' own step-by-step guide AND doubles as the submittal checklist (19 pages, includes a submittal checklist with a check-column for required items).
Resolves the prior 2025-04 gap: this is the county's current 'COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Combined Fees' matrix (file cd-matrix-3.17.26.pdf, internal title 'CD Matrix 10.18.25', published 2026-03-18), linked as 'Fees (PDF)' on the live Planning Fees page (eldoradocounty.ca.gov/Land-Use/Planning-and-Building/Planning-Division/Planning-Fees). Fee-schedule row headers cite Ord. 5238 (Planning/Stormwater/Tech Surcharge/Gen Plan), Res. 187-2019 (EM), Res. 079-2023 (Transportation), Res. 082-2025 (Agriculture). Quoted row: 'Residential/Commercial Parcel Map $1,000 T&M $140 $283 T&M $5,000 T&M $632.32 $1,499.78 $500 if necessary* $8,555.10 T&M'. Direct curl of the PDF is Akamai bot-blocked (403); content extracted via reader-proxy. Matrix notes fees are estimates — 'actual fees will be determined at the time of intake.'
From the official 'EL DORADO RECORDER FEE SCHEDULE Effective January 1, 2026' (accessed via reader-proxy text extraction; direct curl was bot-blocked but the PDF is a live, current county document). Also lists Regular Recording Fee ($14 first page/$3 each additional), SB2 Affordable Housing Fee ($75, max $225), and Preliminary 20-Day Filing ($35). Only single-sourced (one PDF); no second corroborating document located, though this is the county's own current authoritative fee schedule.
City of South Lake Tahoe
Tentative parcel maps: South Lake Tahoe City Code, Title 6 (Development Services), Chapter 6.45 — Subdivision of Land. Confirmed via the live eCode360 chapter tree for Title 6 (Ch 6.05 Advertising ... Ch 6.45 Subdivision of Land ... Ch 6.55 Plan Area Statements, Art. VIII Fee Schedule).
Submittal checklist →The Subdivision Map Act page (https://www.cityofslt.gov/2403/Subdivision-Map-Act) hosts the application forms: Tentative Map Application, Final Map and Parcel Map Application, Lot Line Adjustment Application, Certificate of Merge Application. The Final Map/Parcel Map application PDF functions as the closest thing to a submittal checklist but is a fill-in form rather than a detailed requirements list; could not confirm a separate, more detailed TPM submittal checklist PDF for the city. South Lake Tahoe sits substantially within the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) region — many land divisions and land-coverage/land-capability determinations require a parallel or preceding TRPA review (see https://www.trpa.gov/applications-forms/) in addition to city subdivision review; this is referenced directly in the city code (e.g. SLTCC 6.55.210 requires 'TRPA land capability, coverage, and unit of use verifications' for subdivision-adjacent applications).
South Lake Tahoe is unincorporated-adjacent but is itself an incorporated city within El Dorado County; all recorded maps for property within the city still record at the county Recorder-Clerk's office in Placerville, per California Government Code recording-fee authority statewide.
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.