I would like to take a moment to introduce my company to you and offer our surveying services as needed. AARROW SURVEYING has been developed to offer a wide range of surveying services. I have surveyed in Georgia and the southeast U.S. region for the last thirty years. The application of current technologies in both field and office are used. These procedures shall enable quick and accurate communications and productivity while minimizing errors. I have a strong background providing civil support both in the field and office. 
I have several years of experience in land surveying consulting, construction staking, plan reviews, inspection and application of plans, computations, initial takeoffs and bid documents. I am registered with the state composite board and may provide service as a professional consultant These services can be provided on a lump sum basis, not to exceed basis or hourly and itemized fee schedule. I have experience providing mortgage/loan surveys, exemption plats, recombination plats, as-built drawings, estate tracts, right-of-way surveys, construction staking, topographic surveys, tree surveys, subdivisions, control surveys and ALTA/ACSM Land Title Surveys.Currently AARROW SURVEYING is working in the Atlanta metro area and northeast Georgia vicinity. Should these services be of interest to your firm please feel free to call or order services directly by fax on the order form enclosed. Thank you for your time. Please call AARROW SURVEYING should you have needs for surveying services.
Contact information:
AARROW SURVEYING
2245 Country Walk Snellville, Ga. 30039
Ph and Fax (770) 982-9900
email: aarrow99@bellsouth.net
Experience: 30 years experience in Land Surveying and Civil Support - 20 years experience with Consulting Engineering/Land Surveying firms (Conine Coastal Surveying and Land Planning, Hartrampf/Powell Consulting Engineers, D.E. Hill Engineering - Hill/Fister Engineers – Fister/Poole Engineers – Fister and Associates, Advance Survey, Inc. - 12 years as owner of AARROW SURVEYING company providing land surveying services.
Related Experience: - Coastal - worked on boundary and topographic survey of Kings Bay Naval Station in St. Mary’s Ga., F.L.E.T.C. base Brunswick, Ga., subdivision layout, worked for Glynn County Surveyor - Atlanta - worked for local multidiscipline engineering and surveying firms; projects included field and office design of outfall systems, construction building and roadway surveys and layouts , commercial and residential surveying, ALTA surveys, site planning and civil support, traveled eastern seaboard with heavy duty paving company for military and international airport work on taxiways, runways and refueling stations at McDill AFB Tampa, Fl., Jacksonville International Jacksonville, Fl, Hartsfield International Atlanta, Ga., Cherry Point MCAS Havelock, NC., traveled Georgia for apartment layout for Cardinal Industries, worked on all aspects of field and office for subdivision design and layouts.
Sole Owner of AARROW SURVEYING - provided field, office, and management of work for +/- 15,000 ln ft of sidewalk surveys for City of Forest Park project; provided field, office, and management of work for +/- 8,500 ln ft of sidewalk surveys for City of Forest Park Gateway Enhancement Project; Provided quality control of surveying and layout for Beers Construction on the Centenial Olympic Park project, provided layout and site service for Project Earth Grading Company for entire school projects for Forsyth and Walton county elementary, middle and high school projects, worked in conjunction with several engineering firms for subdivision design and layout on numerous projects; provided base surveys for several pool companies for designs; worked with numerous builders and developers for site planning and design projects, provided or completed numerous private surveys, worked on property lines and boundary disputes.
Projects have included writing legal descriptions, computing surveys, drafting, boundary surveys, as-built surveys, topographic surveys, tree surveys, construction surveys, courthouse research, application of title commitments, volumes calculations, working with local municipal governments and government departments for permitting approvals, writing proposals and completing bid takeoffs, providing professional consulting and witness services, account billing and collections, running and scheduling crews, payroll services and general business management as owner of firm.AARROW SURVEYING clients have included City of Forest Park, City of Eastpoint, City of Hapeville, Fulton County, Rosser International, Inc., Mote Engineering, Inc, Piedmont Design Group, True Vine Engineering, Tibbitts Land Surveying, Hartrampf Engineering, Media One and Comcast Cable, Project Earth, Beiser Properties, Moorhead Properties, Peachtree Gardens Development, Brookhaven Homes, and more.
EARLY SURVEYING AND SURVEYORS Every since people have wanted to possess land, the need for surveying became necessary. This practice, art and industry is as old as the Bible and has become more dependant with time.
Cavemen protected their caves with clubs. Boundary questions or disputes have been relevant in religion, politics, taxes and personal worths. It is of historical significance that over 5000 years ago, the boundaries of northern Mesopotamia, now Iran, had a map of the dynasty of Sargon of Akkad marked on clay tablets. The ancient Egyptians developed precise methods of measurement to build the Great Pyramids. The Nile river had to be surveyed constantly because of its annual flooding.
The Babylonians used boundary stones. The stones were carved with the land description and even the name of the surveyor upon them. These stones also had warnings and curses upon them if anyone was to infringe on the land or move the stones. When the first five books of the Old Testament were written, they made reference to land survey's. The Pentateuch, as these first five books were formally known, combines four major documents into a single literary unit about 400 B.C.
AS FOLLOWS:
And as for the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border; this shall be your west border. Numbers 34: 6
And the border shall go down to Jordon, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about. Numbers 34: 12
Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me. To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the bresdth thereof, and what is the length thereof Zechariah 2: 2
And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are egual. Revelation 21: 16
And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel. Revelation 21: 17
These measurements used in biblical times were simple and not very precise, but they were the standards to be used. Thus the areas described did have a measurable limit. There are many more of these biblical references to surveying or surveying measurements.
The Romans used a device called the groma which had four arms set at 90 degrees. The Greeks believed in their mathematician Pythagoras. He belived the earth might be spherical instead of flat. Eratosthenes used units called stadia. In the Middle Ages the church used and prepared maps showing Jerusalem as the center of the world.
Wiiliam the Conqueror ordered a survey of the lands of England so that he could more accurately assess the sums he should receive from the lords of the manors. The results of this survey were called the "Doomsday Book". It was a cadastral survey of the land with names of the owners and the extent, nature, and value of their holdings. This history continues and I will follow with more later.
The following slides depict pictures of colonial and more recent surveying and suveryors. These photos were used by the U.S Government Printing Office in a book called "Surveys and Surveyors of the Public Domain 1785 - 1975.
