Garber Surveying Service, P.A. was founded by Daniel E. Garber, Registered Land Surveyor, in 1978. Since then, Garber Surveying has developed a team of professionals and technicians dedicated to providing the best service possible to meet the customers' needs, from inception to completion of projects. Garber Surveying enlists highly technical instruments and equipment to ensure precision and proficiency in completing projects on-budget and on-time. A Professional Land Surveyor renders a highly technical service in compliance with applicable laws, regulations, codes and court decisions established by city, county, state and federal authorities.
The sole purpose of this inspection is to obtain mortgagee title insurance. This is the minimum service that your lender requires for closing your loan. It is a location of improvements and a cursory check for violations or encroachments onto or from the subject property based on existing but not confirmed evidence. This does not constitute a boundary survey and is subject to any inaccuracies that a subsequent boundary survey may disclose. No property corners will be set and it should not be used or relied upon for the establishment of any fence, structure or other improvement.
We owe a debt of gratitude to Greek mathematician Hero of Alexandria. He documented early surveying principles, described the diopter used as a surveying tool, and captured for posterity the math and engineering knowledge of ancient Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome.
In the Roman religion, Terminus was the god who protected boundary makers. In fact, landowners celebrated a festival called “the Terminalia” in Terminus’ honor every year on February 23.
Oddly enough, many famous people started out as land surveyors. Some examples of these are Napoleon Bonaparte and Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln.
Not everyone is aware of this, but the well-known Mason Dixon Line (the boundary line that runs between Maryland and Pennsylvania) is actually a survey line. It took two surveyors 4 years and $75,000 dollars to fully survey the 233-mile-long line.
The measurements taken by land surveyors often precede a building project. The measurements recorded by land surveyors are used by engineers, architects, geologists, and even landscapers to better understand and utilize the land.