Sutter 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.
Limited online GIS - contact office directly
County Surveyor
Records of Survey, Corner Records, and survey-related filings.
County Surveyor (Public Works Engineering). Open Data hub has a searchable Records of Survey map layer; monument preservation program. No separate online Corner Record index.
California Survey Requirements & Records
The statewide rules that govern surveys, maps, and monuments in Sutter 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.
Sutter 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 Sutter County
Every map type Sutter County records, with a real example on file where one has been archived.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.
Sutter County
Tentative parcel maps: Sutter County Code of Ordinances, Chapter 1400 - Subdivisions (implements the Subdivision Map Act, Gov. Code §66410 et seq.). Municode's own definitions section (Part 6, Art. 27 of the Zoning Title) cross-references this chapter for parcel map procedure. Search results confirm Chapter 1400 is titled "SUBDIVISIONS" and governs tentative and final/parcel maps, but Municode's JS-rendered content blocked automated extraction of the exact tentative-parcel-map subsection number (e.g. 1400-0X) — verify the precise section against the live Municode page.
Could not confirm a Sutter County-specific TPM submittal checklist PDF; searches only surfaced Yuba County (a separate, different county/agency, CDSA) checklists, which must not be confused with Sutter County. See gaps.
The official Sutter County Clerk-Recorder fee schedule PDF exists at the sourceUrl above but returns HTTP 403 to both WebFetch and curl (Akamai/Cloudflare bot protection) — could not be opened directly to read the authoritative figure. Three independent secondary sources (a general web search summary, deeds.com, and a third-party California-recording-fees compilation site) gave three different first-page fees ($16, $15, and $18 respectively), so none is treated as verified. A Survey Monument Preservation Fund fee of $10.00 and standard CA per-$1,000 documentary transfer tax and SB2/Building Homes and Jobs Act $75 fee were mentioned by one secondary source but also unconfirmed against the primary PDF. Recommend a human call the Recorder's office at (530) 822-7134 to confirm current per-page and map-recording fees before publishing.
City of Yuba City
Tentative parcel maps: Yuba City Municipal Code, Title 8 (Planning and Zoning), Chapter 2 (Subdivisions), Article 7 - Parcel Map, beginning at Section 8-2.702 (Application/Accompanying Data). Confirmed via Municode's node naming for this exact URL; could not render full section text (Municode blocked automated fetch with 403) so exact subsection breakdown beyond 8-2.702 is unverified.
Submittal checklist →Checklist PDF titled 'PARCEL MAP AND SUBDIVISION FILING INSTRUCTIONS' downloaded and confirmed live (HTTP 200) via curl + pdftotext — lists required tentative map content, five folded copies, building elevations, Initial Study, and 'appropriate fee'. Hosted on Yuba City's own CiviCLive CDN (Server_239174), same host as the city's official fee schedule PDFs, corroborating it is the city's real, current document.
Verified against two separate Yuba City fee schedule PDFs downloaded and text-extracted with pdftotext: the FY24-25 schedule ($1,831.80) and an earlier July 2022 schedule ($1,674.53), both under a 'Land Divisions' section listing Subdivision Map, Parcel Map, Parcel Map Revision, Lot Line Adjustment, etc. Used the more recent FY24-25 figure as current; the FY24-25 PDF is labeled 'Draft (Updated 4.30.24)' so confirm with the city that it was formally adopted before citing as final. A related CEQA minor-review fee of $676.20 (parcel maps/variances not requiring mitigation) also appears in the same schedule.
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.