Tulare 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 (RMA / Public Works). Records of Survey and Corner Records obtained through the Surveyor office; no public online index (document portal is login-gated).
California Survey Requirements & Records
The statewide rules that govern surveys, maps, and monuments in Tulare 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.
Tulare County falls in CCS Zone 4. 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 Tulare County
Every map type Tulare County records, with a real example on file where one has been archived.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.
Tulare County
Tentative parcel maps: Tulare County Ordinance Code, Chapter 7-1 (Subdivision of Land), Article 15 (Parcel Maps), §§7-01-2150 to 7-01-2185 et seq. — establishes requirements/procedures for parcel map subdivisions authorized under Gov. Code §§66426 and 66428; the Site Plan Review Committee (Ord. 352 §16.2) is the designated advisory agency for parcel maps.
Submittal checklist →Live full text of Chapter 7-1 confirmed by direct fetch (200 OK) of codepublishing.com; Article 15 heading and section text quoted directly from that page. RMA's own subdivision-application page (tularecounty.ca.gov) returns HTTP 403 to automated fetchers (Cloudflare bot protection) — confirmed live/real via Google search snippets and a text-extraction proxy, not a broken link. The Tentative Parcel Map application form is the 'Major Discretionary Projects Application' (RMA, rev. Jan 2026), linked from that same applications-and-forms page; a stand-alone one-page checklist PDF for TPM specifically was not located — the checklist requirements are embedded in that application packet.
Single source: verified by downloading and extracting text (pdftotext) from the RMA's official 'Major Discretionary Projects Application, January 2026' PDF, fee schedule page 3, line 'Tentative Parcel Map'. Could not find a second independent corroborating fee-schedule document (RMA's general fee schedule page is behind the same bot-blocked tularecounty.ca.gov domain); treat as single-sourced pending a second confirmation.
Retrieved via text-extraction proxy after direct WebFetch/curl to tularecounty.ca.gov returned 403 (Cloudflare bot block — site is live, not broken; corroborated by search-snippet echoes of the same $21/$3 general recording fee on the site's own recording-fees page). Only one live source found for the specific $8/$2/$336 map fee figures — not independently double-sourced.
City of Visalia
Tentative parcel maps: Visalia Municipal Code Title 16 (Subdivisions): Chapter 16.16 (Tentative Maps) governs tentative map procedure generally; Chapter 16.28 (Parcel Maps) is the dedicated chapter for parcel maps (4 or fewer lots); Chapter 16.20 covers Vesting Tentative Maps and Chapter 16.24 covers Final Maps.
Submittal checklist →Title 16 table of contents (chapter list 16.04-16.54) confirmed live via text-extraction proxy of the American Legal Publishing code library (direct WebFetch to codelibrary.amlegal.com returned 403). The Planning Division's general 'Application Checklist' PDF (confirmed by direct download, 2 pages, current) explicitly lists 'Tentative Parcel Map' as one of its application-type columns alongside required items (complete application, fees, operational statement, site plan, subdivision map, etc.); it is a shared checklist covering all major entitlement types, not a TPM-only document.
Verified by downloading the City's official FY2024-25 Rates & Fees schedule (76-page PDF) and extracting text with pdftotext; figures found under Planning & Community Preservation > Maps. This is the most recent rates-and-fees PDF locatable — a FY2025-26 edition is referenced on the Finance Dept. rates page but its direct download link 404'd during this research session, so the FY2024-25 figures could not be cross-checked against a newer edition; single-sourced.
This is the City Engineering Division's map-filing/plan-check fee (paid to the City before the map goes to the County Recorder for actual recordation) — verified from the same FY2024-25 Rates & Fees PDF (Engineering section, 'Final Subdivision & Parcel Map Filing Fee'). The physical recording fee paid at time of recordation is the Tulare County Recorder's fee (see county.recordingFee above). Single-sourced to the one fee-schedule PDF found.
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.