Madera 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.
County Surveyor (Public Works). Corner Records posted online by township. No online ROS index; ROS by request.
California Survey Requirements & Records
The statewide rules that govern surveys, maps, and monuments in Madera 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.
Madera County falls in CCS Zone 4. 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 Madera County
Every map type Madera County records, with a real example on file where one has been archived.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.
Madera County
Tentative parcel maps: Madera County Code Title 17 (Subdivisions), Part III – Short Subdivisions, Chapter 17.72 (Parcel Maps) covers tentative parcel map procedures (§ 17.72.140 Tentative parcel map; § 17.72.150 Fees; § 17.72.180 Parcel map committee action). Chapter 17.20 (Tentative Map) in Part I – Subdivision Generally covers tentative map procedures for larger subdivisions.
Submittal checklist →Live Municode node confirmed via search-indexed section titles (Chapter 17.72 PARCEL MAPS, Chapter 17.20 TENTATIVE MAP). The Municode library itself is a JavaScript single-page app that returned HTTP 200 but no server-rendered chapter text could be extracted directly; chapter/section titles were corroborated independently via Google-indexed section pages (elaws.us mirror: maderacounty-ca.elaws.us/code/coor_title17_iiishsu_ch17.72_sec17.72.140 etc.) and via Madera County's own Surveyor's Office page, which links directly into these Municode chapters as 'Record of Survey Submittal Requirements' (Ch. 17.68) and 'Tract Map Submittal Checklist' (Ch. 17.04). No standalone PDF submittal checklist specifically for Tentative Parcel Maps was found; the Surveyor's Office page states LLA, merger, and tentative map submittals go to the Planning Division, and the codified chapter itself functions as the submittal requirements.
Source is the Planning Division's official 'FY 25/26 Planning Fees' schedule (title block reads 'Planning Division Fee Schedule, July 1, 2025, Updated/Corrected July 22, 2025'), linked from the Planning Forms and Documents > Fee Information page. A $141 Software Fee is also added to all Parcel Map/Subdivision applications per the same document. Single-sourced — no second corroborating fee-resolution PDF was found; the linked PDF is the only fee schedule currently published by the county.
Fee authority is Government Code § 66466(a) (10-day map examination window, cited on the same fee page). Single-sourced to the Recorder's official fee page; no second independent source (e.g., a fee resolution PDF) was located to corroborate, though this is the county's own live, official fee-schedule page.
City of Madera
Tentative parcel maps: Madera Municipal Code Title X (Planning and Zoning), Chapter 2 (Subdivisions): § 10-2.303 (Division of Land, Four or Less Parcels — requires a tentative and parcel map) and § 10-2.402 (Tentative Subdivision Maps — general requirements, form and contents, submittal procedure, Planning Department review, Planning Commission action, and appeals). Definitions (including PARCEL MAP and TENTATIVE MAP) are codified at § 10-2.201.
Submittal checklist →Confirmed live via American Legal Publishing (amlegal.com) codelibrary; § 10-2.303 text fetched and verified directly (definitions and lot-line-adjustment/tentative map content confirmed). § 10-2.402 citation corroborated via a second, independent web search that returned the same section number and subsection breakdown, but the section's full text could not be independently re-fetched (amlegal blocks direct scraping; proxy fetch returned adjacent § 10-2.303 content only). The 'Tentative Parcel Map' and 'Tentative Subdivision Map' checklists share the same PDF file on madera.gov.
Corroborated by a second, independently-linked PDF on the same site: https://www.madera.gov/media/xuydexpo/planning-department-fee-schedule-12-04-17.pdf, which lists the identical $1,069 figure. Both PDFs are dated/adopted in 2017 and are still the fee schedules currently published live on madera.gov as of this verification (no newer master fee schedule with updated planning figures could be located; the city's 'Master Fee and Penalty Schedule' page exists but its PDF content did not render through available fetch tools).
The City of Madera has no separate Recorder; all final/parcel maps within city limits are recorded at the Madera County Recorder's Office per state law (Gov. Code § 66466 et seq.).
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.