The County Surveyor's Office establishes and reestablishes all Public Land Survey System (PLSS) Corner positions of
the sectionalized lands in Clinton County, monuments them and records their positional data in the Surveyor's Office.
By statute, at least five percent of the corners must be checked each year. All legal surveys submitted to the County
Surveyor's Office are recorded and maintained in a legal survey record book.
Our founding fathers placed the office of County Surveyor in the State Constitution. They wanted to keep people with the knowledge of cut parcels, town and city boundaries, drains and topography as officeholders elected by the people. They waned the surveyors to remain in service to their counties for longer periods of time, and therefore did not impose term limits on the County Surveyors.
All Clinton County Drainage Board actions are reviewed and processed through this office. Maintenance and reconstruction
work on the county's regulated drains and ditches are designed, bid and managed by the Surveyor's Office. Assessments for
drainage improvements are calculated by the Surveyor's Office. We also respond to and investigate petitions for the removal
of obstructions in mutual drains and natural surface watercourses.
The Clinton County Surveyor mantains all plat maps for county.
New development plans are reviewed by the Clinton County Surveyor's Office. Some items of review include:
•Primary plats
•Secondary plats
•Storm water detention calculations and designs
•Erosion control plans
•Construction details, plans, profiles and specifications
•Watershed analysis
•Pipe design calculations
•Engineer's estimates
•Revisions
A vertical control network of monuments and benchmarks is maintained by the Surveyor's Office. This network is constantly
being expanded with the addition of new sites. Additionally a network of horizontal control monuments tied to the Indiana State
Plane East Coordinate System is being developed. This system will aid in the development of the County GIS layers, future aerial
photography and photogrammetric applications.
What We Do
•Review of drainage problems and concerns
•Repository for legal surveys and Section Corner information
•Assistance with drain assessment concerns
•Process Drainage Board petitions
•Inspection of new development sites
•Investigation of drainage complaints
•Design new storm water facilities
•Schedule maintenance work on drains and ditches
•Invest funds while on deposit with the county
General Information
The Drainage Board was formed under Indiana Code 36-9-27 and its subsections are the guidelines that the board follows to
carry out its duties. These laws, and others pertaining to this division of our office, can be viewed by following our links
on the Links page of our website.
Work performed for the Drainage Board is done through the Hydrology Division of our office. That division is responsible
for the maintenance, construction, and reconstruction of the county's regulated or legal drains. A watershed is determined
for each drain and drainage assessments are applied through the offices of the County Auditor and Treasurer.
County Drainage Board Members
Josh B. Uitts, President
Jordan Brewer, Vice President
Bert Weaver, Member
Daniel D. Sheets, County Surveyor (ex-officio)
Zachary J. Light, Secretary
Drainage Board Meeting
Regular meetings are held the first and third Monday of each month at 10:15AM in the Commissioners´ Meeting Room, County Courthouse.
If you have an item to be placed on the Clinton County Drainage Board’s Agenda, the request should be submitted
to the Surveyor’s Office no later than five working days before the scheduled meeting.
The agenda for an upcoming regular meeting will be posted with the meeting on the county's calendar no later than
the Friday prior to the scheduled meeting date and will be removed and replaced for each meeting.
