Santa Cruz 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). The County GIS Recorded Maps layer includes Records of Survey, Parcel/Tract Maps, and Corner Records, searchable by APN/address/Volume-Page.
California Survey Requirements & Records
The statewide rules that govern surveys, maps, and monuments in Santa Cruz 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.
Santa Cruz 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 Santa Cruz County
Every map type Santa Cruz County records, with a real example on file where one has been archived.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.
Santa Cruz County
Tentative parcel maps: Santa Cruz County Code Title 14, Chapter 14.01 (Subdivision Regulations), Part II 'Maps' — general tentative map requirement is codified at SCCC 14.01.201 ('A tentative map and a parcel map are required for all subdivisions creating not more than four parcels...'); parcel map procedures are further detailed in Article IV: Parcel Maps (see https://ecode360.com/47537132). The Planning Commission acts as 'Advisory Agency' under Gov. Code §66452.1(b) for tentative maps resulting in 2-19 lots.
Submittal checklist →codepublishing.com hosts the county code via the eCode360 platform, which loads chapter text via client-side JS — could not render full section text directly (403/JS-only page for automated fetch), so exact section wording is corroborated via search-engine cached excerpts of the same page plus the eCode360 URL for Article IV. Both point to the same official chapter.
Single-sourced: this is the County's official 'Discretionary Application and Review Fees' schedule (revised 2/27/2026, downloaded and parsed with pdftotext), which lists fees by review category rather than a single 'Tentative Parcel Map' line item — the County uses a modular fee structure (base Planning tier + Public Works/Survey + other-agency add-ons). Could not find a second document restating these exact figures; the county's general fee-payment page (cdi.santacruzcountyca.gov/UPC/DiscretionaryPermitsZoning/FeesandPayments.aspx) links to this same PDF as the authoritative source rather than an independent second source.
Sourced from the official 2025 Assessor-Recorder Fee Schedule (downloaded PDF, extracted via pdftotext -layout). Single-sourced — could not find a second corroborating page restating the map-recording fee specifically, though the schedule itself cites the underlying Government Code sections (GC27372, GC27361) which are independently verifiable statutory authority for the amount.
City of Santa Cruz
Tentative parcel maps: Santa Cruz Municipal Code Title 23 (Subdivisions), Chapter 23.20 'Minor Land Divisions (Four or Fewer Parcels)' governs tentative and final parcel maps for divisions of four or fewer parcels (zoning administrator has final approval authority); Chapter 23.12 'Maps Required' sets the general map-type requirements; general tentative/final subdivision map procedures (5+ parcels, city council final jurisdiction) are in the earlier chapters of Title 23.
Chapter title/number confirmed directly (HTTP 200, page title 'Chapter 23.20 MINOR LAND DIVISIONS (FOUR OR FEWER PARCELS)' retrieved). Could not locate a dedicated city-published TPM submittal checklist PDF (only informational handouts index page, which itself returned 403 on automated fetch) — omitted checklistUrl.
santacruzca.gov is behind Akamai bot-protection that returned 403 Forbidden on every automated fetch attempt (WebFetch and curl with browser user-agent), for both the PDF and the HTML informational-handouts page. The document's existence and effective date (1/1/2026) are confirmed via search-engine indexing, but the exact dollar figure could not be verified live — listed in gaps.
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.
Planning Department
Zoning maps, general plan, and land use information.