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Public official in the UK and US

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. The Irish County Surveyors 1834 1944 A Biographical Dictionary by Brendan O Donoghue (2007) Four Courts Press, Dublin

County surveyors are present in many counties of the United States. Most of these officials are elected on the partisan ballot to four year terms. They administer the county land survey records, re establish and maintain the official government survey monuments, and review property boundaries surveys and subdivision plans. Other duties vary from state to state. NACS is part of the National Association of Counties of the USA (NACo).

The NACo website sets out its perception of the history of county government in the USA, tracing it to Anglo Saxon England (initial division of land into holdings for government purposes called 'shires', hence 'shire reeve', the origin of 'sheriff'), Anglo Norman feudalism (renaming shires conquered by William I as 'counties' and establishing his allodial title to them via the Domesday Book survey), and the increasingly "plural executive structure" commissioned by his successors to the royal throne of England to defend the peace and enforce the complex of chivalric, common, and statutory laws of England (and of Wales from the reign of Edward I) up to the time of the first county government established in America (County of James City, Virginia). This triad of origins is fundamental to understanding the organisation role that county surveying plays in the administration and development of the real estate of many states and nations around the world, even though sometimes it goes by other names. It was the framework that the King of England applied to his colonies in America and sufficiently successful as to have since been adopted by many other states.