San Benito County

County seat: HollisterCentral CaliforniaCCS Zone 4

Assessor's Office

Property assessment data, parcel information, and assessor maps.

Recorder's Office

Recorded documents including deeds, maps, easements, and CC&Rs.

Combined Assessor-Recorder office

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.

San Benito County has NO dedicated County Surveyor web page. Survey/mapping functions ('mapping and reviewing development plans') sit inside the RMA Public Works Division (2301 Technology Parkway, Hollister, 831-636-4170; Public Works Engineering: Deems Katada, PE, Interim Public Works Administrator, 831-902-2270). No online corner-record index exists. Recorded maps (incl. Records of Survey) are searchable through the Recorder's Tyler Eagle self-service portal at https://sanbenitocountyca-web.tylerhost.net/web/ (search the official-records index by document type); certified copies by request from the Recorder.

California Survey Requirements & Records

The statewide rules that govern surveys, maps, and monuments in San Benito County — plus our recorded-maps archive.

Recorded Map Examples in San Benito County

Every map type San Benito County records, with a real example on file where one has been archived.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.

San Benito County

Subdivision Ordinance

Tentative parcel maps: Title 23 (Subdivisions), Chapter 23.07 "Tentative Maps" (§§ 23.07.001–23.07.011) governs the form, content, submittal, Planning Department review, Planning Commission action, appeal, expiration, and extension of tentative maps, which under the county's ordinance also govern tentative parcel maps for minor subdivisions. Parcel maps themselves are addressed separately in Chapter 23.11 "Parcel Maps."

Submittal checklist →

County Code of Ordinances is hosted on American Legal Publishing's codelibrary.amlegal.com (NOT Municode). Verified live 2026-07 via direct browser navigation and full section text pulled from § 23.07.001 and § 23.07.002 (General; Form and Contents). A dedicated 'Tentative Parcel Map submittal checklist' PDF could not be located as a standalone document; the Applications and Fee Schedule page is the closest published resource and directs applicants to a pre-application planner consultation instead of a fixed checklist.

Tentative map review fee: See fee schedule — varies by project; not independently verifiable from the current PDF source · verified 2026-07

GAP: The 'Current Planning Division Fee Schedule' PDF (labeled 'Updated August 21, 2018' on the site) returns HTTP 200 in a real browser but is not machine-text-extractable — both a direct fetch and a text-extraction proxy (r.jina.ai) returned zero text content across all 3 pages, indicating it is likely a scanned/image-only PDF. Could not confirm a specific tentative-parcel-map fee figure. The page itself states fees are 'determined at time of submittal' based on the actual project. Single-sourced only — could not find a second corroborating fee-schedule or staff-report page with a specific dollar figure.

Recording fee: $9.00 first page + $3.00 each additional page (Map Recording Fee) source · verified 2026-07

From the County Clerk-Recorder's official 'Fee Schedule 2026.pdf' (Recording Fees table), citing Gov. Code § 27372 and § 27361. Corroborated by the Recorder's 'Recording Information' page (https://www.sanbenitocounty-ca-cre.gov/recorder/recording-information), which links to this same schedule as 'our complete Recording Fee Schedule.' Note this is separate from the standard $15.00 first page + $3.00/page general document recording fee (Gov. Code §§ 27360-27388) — maps have their own lower fee line.

City of Hollister

Subdivision Ordinance

Tentative parcel maps: Title 16 (Subdivisions), Chapter 16.32 "Maps Generally," § 16.32.020 "Parcel maps and tentative parcel maps—When required": "When a parcel map may be required by this title, a tentative parcel map shall first be filed with the planning commission. Such map shall meet all of the requirements for tentative maps provided by the Subdivision Map Act and this chapter." Chapter 16.36 "Tentative Maps" contains the detailed tentative map procedural requirements applied to tentative parcel maps.

Submittal checklist →

Verified live 2026-07 by direct browser navigation to the Municode section (full text of §§ 16.32.010–16.32.030 pulled and read). The checklist linked is the general 'Planning Division Project Submittal Checklist' used for all development applications (dated 2024.02.06) — Hollister does not appear to publish a checklist specific to tentative parcel maps alone.

Tentative map review fee: $7,957.00 flat (Minor Subdivision Map, 4 or fewer lots) — plus 3.5% General Plan Update Fee + 4% Technology Fee source · verified 2026-07

From the City of Hollister Planning Division Fee Schedule, 'Effective August 15, 2025,' SUBDIVISION section: 'Minor Subdivision Map (4 or less lots)* $7,957.00' (marked with * meaning it is subject to the additional 3.5% General Plan Update Fee and 4% Technology Fee applied after summing application fees). A tentative parcel map is filed as part of a Minor Subdivision Map application per HMC § 16.32.020. Single-sourced — this is the official adopted fee schedule PDF itself (downloaded directly, text-extracted with pdftotext), so treated as authoritative, but no second independent corroborating source (e.g., staff report) was found restating this exact figure.

Recording fee: $9.00 first page + $3.00 each additional page (Map Recording Fee) source · verified 2026-07

Hollister has no separate city Recorder — all recorded documents, including final/parcel maps for city subdivisions, are recorded with the San Benito County Clerk-Recorder at 1601 Lana Way, Hollister, CA 95023, per the same county fee schedule cited above.

Planning department

Surveyor's Toolbox

Research tools that pair with county records — look up licensees, run coordinate work, and pull federal land records.