Welcome to the new Elkhart County Surveyor’s Office website. Your County Surveyor is a constitutional officer of the county and is elected to a 4-yr term from the county at large. The primary duties of the County Surveyor include maintaining the legal survey book, section corner perpetuation, serve as a member of the County Drainage Board, work with the county plan commission, and work with Alcohol Board Commission when it pertains to alcohol beverage permits. All of the office's duties are in accordance with the Indiana Code. We encourage you to browse and learn more about the surveyor's office
Elkhart County intends to discharge stormwater into the following watersheds as listed in the document here
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the County Surveyor maintains a legal survey record book for all legal surveys within the county. A legal survey is a survey prepared by a registered land surveyor with notice to all adjoining landowners to resolve property disputes.
The County Surveyor must keep and maintain a corner record book showing original government section corners. Every deed, parcel, and legal land document in the State of Indiana is tied into the original survey performed in the early years of settlement. To learn more about this, click here.
the County Surveyor is an ex-officio, non voting, member of the County Drainage Board. In this capacity the County Surveyor is the technical authority on the construction, reconstruction, and maintenance of all regulated drains or proposed regulated drains in the county. The Board and Surveyor have jurisdiction over regulated drains. Regulated drains are drains established by either the Commissioners Court or Circuit Court of each county prior to 1965 or the Drainage Board since 1965. These drains are open ditches, tile drains, or a combination.
The County Surveyor is a member of the County Plan Commission. As a member of the Commission they attend the monthly meetings and hear and make decisions on subdivisions and planning. The County Surveyor and staff are often looked to for technical review of plats.
The following jurisdiction, Elkhart County, intends to discharge stormwater into the following watersheds: