Filing can be a required deliverable
Idaho Code 55-1904 requires a Record of Survey in listed circumstances, including certain material discrepancies, newly established boundary lines or corners, and monument setting. The Board's statutes and guidance page collects the recording, corner, licensing, and professional-practice sources surveyors use. Ask whether map preparation, county filing, and recorder charges are included.
Public-land evidence can widen the search
Many Idaho descriptions tie to the Public Land Survey System. The Bureau of Land Management's cadastral survey program maintains federal survey records and framework. The private surveyor still has to connect those records and government corners to deeds, county surveys, and evidence on the parcel.
Field assumptions differ across Idaho
- Subdivision, metes-and-bounds, mining, or section-based description.
- Slope, forest, snow, rock, desert, river crossing, gates, and remote travel.
- Prior survey, corner record, Record of Survey, deed, easement, and adjoining information.
- Corners, one line, full perimeter, topo, construction points, or division.
- Monuments, signed map, filing, digital file, and return visits.
Read the proposal for filing and monuments
Confirm whether the fee includes replacing missing monuments, preparing the Record of Survey, county review, filing charges, and correcting reviewer comments. Ask what happens if field evidence materially differs from the record.
An Idaho request that can be priced
Purpose: [fence, sale, dispute, division, design, title]
Records: [deed, prior survey, corner record, Record of Survey]
Site: [subdivision, forest, mountain, desert, snow, access]
Needed: [corners, lines, map, topo, description, filing]
Deadline: [date]
Please state monument work, Record of Survey, travel, county fees, and exclusions.
Verify the professional
Idaho Code Chapter 12 regulates engineers and surveyors. Use the Board resources to confirm the responsible license.