San Joaquin County
Interactive Map
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.
Surveyor Land Records System: web retrieval for Parcel Maps, Records of Survey, and Final/Subdivision Maps; dedicated Corner Records page.
California Survey Requirements & Records
The statewide rules that govern surveys, maps, and monuments in San Joaquin 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.
San Joaquin County falls in CCS Zone 3. 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 San Joaquin County
Every map type San Joaquin County records, with a real example on file where one has been archived.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 Joaquin County
Tentative parcel maps: Development Title, Series 500 (Subdivision Regulations) — Chapter 9-503, Tentative Maps/Tentative Parcel Maps; Chapter 9-506, Parcel Maps (see § 9-506.040, Design Requirements); Chapter 9-890M covers Parcel Map Waivers. Note: the county's older, self-hosted PDF codification (still on sjgov.org) numbers the same subject matter as Division 9 (Subdivision Regulations), Chapter 9-915, Parcel Maps — the county has since renumbered chapters in the current Municode-hosted Development Title, so the two numbering schemes both exist online; use the Municode (9-503/9-506) numbers as current.
Submittal checklist →San Joaquin County treats a tentative parcel map as a 'Minor Subdivision' (4 or fewer parcels); tentative (tract) maps of 5+ parcels are 'Major Subdivision'. The Minor Subdivision application page (checklistUrl) lists required submittal items (7 copies of signed application forms, tentative map on 18x26 material at engineer's scale, vicinity map, preliminary title report/deed, will-serve letters) but the county does not publish a standalone 'Tentative Parcel Map Checklist' PDF distinct from this page; a general 'Site Plan Checklist' PDF is also linked from the same application page but is not TPM-specific. Municode full chapter text could not be rendered (JS-gated site returns 403/empty shell to automated fetchers); chapter/section titles above were confirmed via Municode search-result snippets and the county's own PDF codification of the same subject matter, not by reading full chapter text.
Single-sourced to the county's official Planning Application Permit Fee Schedule (effective July 1, 2025), extracted via pdftotext line-item table under 'Minor' subdivision, item 9a. No independent second source (e.g. a separate staff report) was found restating this exact figure — flagging per verification standard. Vested Minor Subdivision (first 2 lots) is $7,414.90 total (higher Public Works component).
From the San Joaquin County Assessor-Recorder-County Clerk's official 'Map Recording Fee' line (GC27372, GC27361.4b, Cnty R-18-166, GC27388.1), PDF revised 12/02/25. Verified directly via pdftotext extraction of the live PDF (WebFetch could not render the binary PDF, so it was downloaded with curl and parsed with pdftotext -layout per protocol). Single document source; a prior 2023 version of the same fee schedule exists at a separate sjgov.org URL and could serve as a historical (not current) corroboration only.
City of Stockton
Tentative parcel maps: Stockton Municipal Code, Title 16 (Development Code), Division 6 (Subdivision Regulations) — Chapter 16.184, Requirements to File Subdivision Maps (general applicability/exemptions, § 16.184.030); Chapter 16.188, Tentative Map and Tentative Parcel Map Filing and Processing (https://ecode360.com/43718096) is the operative chapter for TPM review — the Director is the review authority for tentative parcel maps of fewer than 5 parcels, the Planning Commission for tentative maps of 5+ parcels.
Confirmed live via WebFetch of ecode360.com/43718083 (Chapter 16.184 text and its cross-reference to Chapter 16.188) and corroborated by a second WebSearch snippet quoting Chapter 16.188 review-authority language directly from ecode360.com/43718096. Chapter 16.72 (Public Improvements) and 16.212 (Administrative Responsibility) are related chapters in the same Division.
From the City of Stockton FY 2025-26 Adopted Fee Schedule (Community Development Department — Planning, effective 7/1/2025), page labeled F-5, extracted via curl + pdftotext -layout. The $1,045 line item is titled '4 lots or Less' under 'Subdivision Fees - Tentative Maps' — this is the tier that covers a Tentative Parcel Map. Single document source only; both fee lines come from the same PDF so this is not independently double-verified.
All recorded maps in San Joaquin County, including within the City of Stockton, are recorded at the county Recorder's office — there is no independent city 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.