Stanislaus 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). GIS Open Data Recorded Maps collection includes Records of Survey, Corner Records, Tie Cards, Parcel/Subdivision Maps, and GLO Plats.
California Survey Requirements & Records
The statewide rules that govern surveys, maps, and monuments in Stanislaus 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.
Stanislaus 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 Stanislaus County
Every map type Stanislaus County records, with a real example on file where one has been archived.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.
Stanislaus County
Tentative parcel maps: Stanislaus County Code Title 20 (Subdivisions) — Chapter 20.16, Parcel Maps (tentative parcel maps for subdivisions of 4 or fewer lots); tentative maps for subdivisions of 5+ lots are covered under a separate Tentative Maps chapter earlier in Title 20. Adopted per Gov. Code §§66410-66499.58 (Subdivision Map Act).
Submittal checklist →Primary code hosted on eCode360 (Cloudflare-protected; content confirmed via search-engine cache/snippets rather than a direct page render, since ecode360.com blocks automated fetches with a JS challenge — chapter numbers should be spot-checked live before citing to a user). Stancounty.com planning page (https://www.stancounty.com/planning/pl/subdivision-ordinance.shtm) links to the same eCode360 code and to a separate Title 21 zoning ordinance PDF. Single-sourced for exact chapter number of the tentative-map (5+ lot) chapter — only the Parcel Map chapter (20.16) and Final Maps chapter (20.40) were independently confirmed by name via search.
Single-sourced to the county's own Planning Services Fee Schedule (effective July 19, 2025, current through FY 2025-26), extracted directly from the PDF text via pdftotext. Contact Elizabeth Greathouse, (209) 667-3307, was cited by county staff as the current fee contact — not independently corroborated by a second published source.
Corroborated by two independent sources: the Clerk-Recorder's 2026 fee schedule PDF (effective Jan 1, 2026, extracted via pdftotext) and the office's public fees.shtm web page, which state identical figures ($9 first page / $3 additional page / $3 fraud fee, citing GC 27372).
City of Modesto
Tentative parcel maps: Modesto Municipal Code, Title 10 (Zoning Regulations), Chapter 4, Article 41 (Subdivisions) — Section 10-4.4101 et seq.
Submittal checklist →Municode's Modesto library page requires a live JS session (returns 403/blocked to automated fetch/curl), so the exact section number (10-4.4101) is corroborated from a secondary source — the City's Urban Area General Plan Chapter VIII PDF (modestogov.com/DocumentCenter/View/15013) — rather than a direct render of the code section itself. Confirmed the checklist PDF itself is live and current (last updated per the document: June 25, 2020) and lists both Tentative Subdivision Map and Tentative Parcel Map requirements together — same document serves both map types.
Single-sourced to the City's own Planning Division Development User Fees schedule (Fiscal Year 2025-26, effective through June 30, 2026), extracted directly via pdftotext. No independent second source (e.g., a staff report) was found restating this exact figure.
Modesto is an incorporated city within Stanislaus County but all real property recording, including final maps, is handled by the County Clerk-Recorder — there is no separate 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.
Planning Department
Zoning maps, general plan, and land use information.