Plumas 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.
Limited online GIS resources
County Surveyor
Records of Survey, Corner Records, and survey-related filings.
Engineering/Surveyor maintains the Record of Surveys (RS) index and the Corner Records file index, each with a dedicated page. Corner Records free to the public.
California Survey Requirements & Records
The statewide rules that govern surveys, maps, and monuments in Plumas 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.
Plumas 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 Plumas County
Every map type Plumas County records, with a real example on file where one has been archived.
Example on file: Doc #15 - RS - 131 - - 2013-03589 - CALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION - 32-27N-14E
Example on file: Doc #12 - PM - 027 - - 2005-12063 - ANDREWS, MATT C., TESTAMENTARY TRUST - 8-28N-7E
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Example on file: Doc #10 - M - 061 - FOXRUN, PHASE 2 - 2006-06770 - FOXWOOD-ALMANOR, LLC - 18-28N-8E
Example on file: Doc #420
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Subdivision & Tentative Parcel Map Requirements
Municipal code citations, submittal checklists, and fees for the county and its largest city.
Plumas County
Tentative parcel maps: Plumas County Code Title 9 (Planning and Zoning), Chapter 3 (Subdivisions), Article 2 (Administration), Section 9-3.207 (Application) governs tentative map application/submittal procedure; Section 9-3.401 and Board Resolution 74-2587 set the required content/checklist for the tentative map itself (confirmed via the county's official Tentative Maps Applicant's Guide, which cites '(Section 9-3.401 and Resolution 74-2587)' directly on its checklist page).
Submittal checklist →Municode pages for library.municode.com/ca/plumas_county return HTTP 403 to automated fetches (bot-blocked but live — verified reachable via Google-indexed search snippets showing real node IDs/section numbers, e.g. TIT9PLZO_CH3SU_ART2AD_S9-3.207AP). The Tentative Maps Applicant's Guide (Rev. 5/2024), a primary-source PDF hosted directly by the county, was fully extracted via pdftotext and independently confirms Section 9-3.401 as the operative checklist citation, corroborating the Municode node structure. Separate checklist also exists for Subdivision (Tract) Maps: https://www.plumascounty.us/DocumentCenter/View/48049/Subidvision-Map-Submittal-Checklist_rev231117.
Line item 'TENTATIVE MAP' on the Plumas County Planning & Building Services Fee Schedule (Resolution No. 07-7417, Engineering/Public Works portions updated 11/18/23; document itself last dated Rev. 11/18/23). Single-sourced: the Tentative Maps Applicant's Guide (https://www.plumascounty.us/DocumentCenter/View/50765/DEVELOPMENT-PERMIT-APPLICATION_TENTATIVE-MAP) references 'the filing fee set forth on Planning & Building Services' fee schedule' but does not restate the dollar amount, so I could not find a second document independently stating the same figure. Modification of a Recorded Map has separate, lower fees ($1,384.25–$1,196.61 + $50/map) — see same schedule.
From the Plumas County Clerk-Recorder-Elections official Fee Schedule, 'Effective January 1, 2026' (extracted via pdftotext; prepared by J. Hagwood, dated 1/5/2026). Single-sourced: the county FAQ page 'What are your recording fees?' (plumascounty.us/FAQ.aspx?QID=59) just links back to this same PDF rather than restating figures independently, so this is not independently double-verified — flagging per instructions.
City of Portola
Tentative parcel maps: City of Portola Municipal Code, Title 16 (Subdivisions), Chapter 16.36 (Tentative Map); related Chapter 16.44 covers 'Other Maps' (e.g., parcel maps) and Chapter 16.16 covers Improvement Standards.
Direct WebFetch of library.municode.com pages returns HTTP 403 (bot-blocked) for both Portola and Plumas County; chapter/node identifiers were confirmed live via indexed search-engine snippets showing the actual Municode node IDs (TIT16SU_CH16.36TEMA_16.36.070AC, TIT16SU_CH16.44OTMA, TIT16SU_CH16.16IMST). No separately published submittal checklist PDF was found on cityofportola.gov for tentative/parcel maps — omitted checklistUrl.
This is the fee schedule currently linked live from the city's official Fee Schedule page (cityofportola.gov/fee-schedule), extracted via pdftotext. However, the document itself is titled 'EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2009' under Resolution No. 2019 — it is the only fee document the city currently publishes, with no more recent update found, so the figures may be outdated. Single-sourced (no second corroborating document found); flagging both the age and the single-source status.
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.