Sacramento County
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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.
Assessor Parcel Viewer - 400,000+ parcels with assessment data
County Surveyor
Records of Survey, Corner Records, and survey-related filings.
County Engineering performs County Surveyor duties. Sacramento County Maps portal (sacmaps.com) searches Corner Records, Records of Survey, Final Maps, Parcel Maps, and Assessor Maps.
California Survey Requirements & Records
The statewide rules that govern surveys, maps, and monuments in Sacramento 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.
Sacramento 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 Sacramento County
Every map type Sacramento County records, with a real example on file where one has been archived.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.
Sacramento County
Tentative parcel maps: Sacramento County Code, Title 22 (Land Development), Chapter 22.20 "Procedures" — applications for tentative parcel maps are filed with Planning and Environmental Review and processed per the Subdivision Map Act, Title 22, and Planning Director rules authorized under §22.20.005. Related sections: §22.20.060 (Expiration of Tentative Map Approval), §22.20.090/22.20.095 (time extensions), §22.20.076 (Waiver of Parcel Maps for Condominiums).
Submittal checklist →Chapter 22.20 text confirmed via ecode360.com/44038653 (search-result excerpts; direct WebFetch of ecode360 pages returned HTTP 403 for automated fetching, so full inline section text could not be rendered — citations above come from search-result snippets of the same page, corroborated by a mirrored qcode.us index that also lists §22.20.060, confirming the chapter/section numbering). The checklist URL found is titled 'Final Map / Parcel Map Submittal Requirements' — it is the County Surveyor's post-tentative-approval submittal checklist (required items include the approved Tentative Map from Planning), not a standalone pre-application tentative-map checklist; no separate standalone TPM checklist PDF was found (see gaps).
Live CSV pulled directly from the Sacramento County Land Use Regulation Library's fee-schedule app (landuse.saccounty.gov/fees/schedule/, which loads this CSV via Papaparse). Component abbreviations cross-checked against the app's own abbrevkey.csv (PER=Planning & Environmental Review, EMD=Environmental Management Dept, CED=Code Enforcement, DWR=Dept of Water Resources, SacDOT=Dept of Transportation) and the IT fee rate/cap against ITFeeSettings.csv (6.50%, max $850). This is a single primary source (the county's own live fee database) — no second independent corroborating document (e.g., a signed Board resolution PDF) was located; treat as single-sourced pending that PDF.
Confirmed on the County Clerk-Recorder's own fees page (ccr.saccounty.gov), reached via redirect from ccr.saccounty.net. Single primary source found; no separate corroborating PDF resolution located within the time available.
City of Sacramento
Tentative parcel maps: Sacramento City Code, Title 17 (Planning and Development Code) — Chapter 17.828 'Tentative Maps' (see §17.828.080, Tentative map process) and Chapter 17.832 'Final and Parcel Maps'; master parcel maps specifically at Chapter 17.836 (§17.836.030, Tentative master parcel map required).
Submittal checklist →Ordinance confirmed live on American Legal Publishing's code library (codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/sacramentoca). The checklist found (Final, Parcel and Master Parcel Map Application) is the Development Engineering submittal package for final/parcel maps after tentative approval, plus a companion 'Sample Parcel & Final Map & Preparation Instructions' PDF at the same directory — no distinct pre-application Tentative Parcel Map checklist PDF was located (see gaps). Both PDFs are compressed/binary and could not be text-extracted with pdftotext in the time available; content described here is inferred from filenames/search snippets, not full-text verified.
Extracted directly from the City's Private Development Fee Schedule PDF using curl + pdftotext -layout (WebFetch could not render the PDF's binary text). Line item 1.1 'Tentative Maps (parcel, master parcel, and subdivision)' = $1,760 deposit. This is a deposit against staff time, not a flat final cost — additional fees may be billed. Single primary source; the underlying resolution numbers (98-272, 2007-120, 2010-265, 2023-0135, 2024-0153) are cited on the same PDF as corroborating authority but the resolution documents themselves were not independently pulled.
City of Sacramento has no separate recorder; final/parcel maps within city limits record at the County Clerk-Recorder, same fee schedule as the county entry above. Also confirmed the City's own fee schedule PDF lists related map-review fees (e.g., Final Map/Parcel Map 1-4 lots review = $5,700 flat; 5+ lots = $5,700 + $100/lot for first 20 lots + $25/lot over 20) which are city map-check fees distinct from the county recording fee.
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.