County surveyor

A county surveyor is a public official in the United Kingdom and the United States. County surveyors also existed in Ireland between 1834 and 1944.^[1]

Webb & Webb^[2] describe the increasing chaos that began to prevail within the 17th century in the field of county surveying in England and Wales, with county surveyors appointed by the justices of the peace at quarter sessions.

Eventually, the military defence component of county surveying in the UK began to separate from the civil in 1791, with the Crown's 'Board of Ordnance' being commissioned to carry out a comprehensive survey of the South Coast of England^[3] which, as a result of 'the last invasion of Britain 1797', at Fishguard in South West Wales^[4] ultimately extended to all of the UK.

With that shift in emphasis, county surveying began to concentrate more on its civil engineering and civic architecture roles, producing the historically famous British county surveyors such as Thomas Telford, John Loudon McAdam and John Nash;^[5][6][7] the expression, "county surveyor", became a UK statutory title (Bridges Act 1803); and, in England and Wales, its incumbents were appointed by elected county councils as of the coming into effect of the Local Government Act 1888 rather than being Crown-appointed by justices of the peace.

The UK equivalent of NACS, the County Surveyors' Society (CSS), founded in 1885,^[8] was transformed into the pluralistic Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning and Transport (ADEPT) in 2010.^[8]

يتواجد مساحو المقاطعات في العديد من مقاطعات الولايات المتحدة . يُنتخب معظم هؤلاء المسؤولين عبر الاقتراع الحزبي لولاية مدتها أربع سنوات. ويتولون إدارة سجلات مسح الأراضي في المقاطعة ، وإعادة إنشاء وصيانة معالم المسح الحكومية الرسمية ، ومراجعة مسوحات حدود الملكية وخطط تقسيم الأراضي. وتختلف مهامهم الأخرى من ولاية إلى أخرى.

تُعدّ NACS جزءًا من الرابطة الوطنية للمقاطعات في الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية (NACo). ^{[ 9 ]}