A surveyor general is an official responsible for government

surveying Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them. A land surveying professional is ...

in a specific country or territory. Historically, this would often have been a military appointment, but it is now more likely to be a civilian post. The following surveyor general positions exist, or have existed historically: *Surveyors general in Australia: **

Surveyor General of New South Wales The Surveyor-General of New South Wales is the primary government authority responsible for land and mining surveying in New South Wales. The original duties for the Surveyor General was to measure and determine land grants for settlers in New ...

Surveyor General of South Australia The Surveyor General of South Australia (also stylised Surveyor-General) is a position originally created for the Surveyor General for the colony of South Australia. The post is held by an official responsible for government surveying Surveyi ...

Surveyor General of Queensland Surveyor General of Queensland is a position originally created for the colony of Queensland, now a state of Australia. The position was the most senior surveyor within the Queensland Public Service. List of Surveyors General of Queensland S ...

Surveyor General of Tasmania Surveyor General of Tasmania is a position originally created for the colony of Van Diemens Land (Tasmania from 1855 now a state of Australia). List of Surveyors General of Tasmania See also * Surveyor General of New South Wales * Surveyor Gene ...

Surveyor General of the Northern Territory Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them. A land surveying professional is ...

Surveyor General of Victoria The Surveyor General of Victoria is the person nominally responsible for government surveying in Victoria, Australia Victoria is a state in southeastern Australia. It is the second-smallest state with a land area of , the second most populat ...

Surveyor General of Western Australia The Surveyor General of Western Australia is the person nominally responsible for government surveying in Western Australia. In the early history of Western Australia, the office of surveyor general was one of the most important public office ...

*Surveyors general in Canada: ** Arpenteur général du Québec - prior to 1840s as Surveyor General of Lower Canada ** Surveyor General of Ontario - 1791 to 1829 as Surveyor General of Upper Canada and the

Commissioner of Crown Lands (Province of Canada) The Commissioner of Crown Lands was a member of the Executive Council for the Province of Canada responsible for administering the surveying and sale of Crown land, the forests, mines, and fisheries of the Province. From 1841 to 1867 the Departmen ...

1827 to 1867 ** Surveyor General of Nova Scotia *Surveyors-general in

British North America British North America comprised the colonial territories of the British Empire in North America from 1783 onwards. English colonisation of North America began in the 16th century in Newfoundland, then further south at Roanoke and Jamestow ...

** Surveyor General of the

Colony of Vancouver Island The Colony of Vancouver Island, officially known as the Island of Vancouver and its Dependencies, was a Crown colony of British North America from 1849 to 1866, after which it was united with the mainland to form the Colony of British Columbia ...

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Joseph Despard Pemberton Joseph Despard Pemberton (July 23, 1821 – November 11, 1893) was a surveyor for the Hudson's Bay Company, Surveyor General for the Colony of Vancouver Island, a pre-Confederation politician, a businessman and a farmer. He was born in 1821 i ...

** Surveyor General of New Brunswick ***

Robert Power (surveyor) Robert Power (1794 – 15 February 1869) was a British Army officer and Surveyor General of Tasmania, (then the colony of Van Diemen's Land, now a state of Australia). Early life Power was born in Knockbrit, Ireland to Edmund Power and Ellen Sh ...

* Surveyor General of Cornwall, UK * Surveyor General of Hong Kong *

Surveyor General of India The Surveyor General of India is the Head of Department of Survey of India, A department under the Ministry of Science and Technology of Government of India. The Surveyor General is also the most senior member of the Survey of India Service, an o ...

Surveyor General of Ireland The office of Surveyor General of Ireland was an appointed officer under the Dublin Castle administration of Ireland in the 17th and 18th centuries.McParland 1995 The Surveyor General was typically responsible for the surveying, design and construc ...

Surveyor General of Malaysia The surveyor general of Malaysia was the head of the Federated Malay States Survey Department, now known as Department of Survey and Mapping Malaysia. The first surveyor general, Colonel Hugh Milbourne Jackson, took up the role on 25 September ...

Surveyor General A surveyor general is an official responsible for government surveying in a specific country or territory. Historically, this would often have been a military appointment, but it is now more likely to be a civilian post. The following surveyor ge ...

New Netherland New Netherland ( nl, Nieuw Nederland; la, Novum Belgium or ) was a 17th-century colonial province of the Dutch Republic that was located on the east coast of what is now the United States. The claimed territories extended from the Delmarva ...

* Surveyor-General of New Zealand *

The Surveyor General of Pakistan Surveyor General of Pakistan ( ur, ) is the Head of Survey of Pakistan, a National Mapping Organisation working under the Ministry of Defense of the Government of Pakistan. The Surveyors General of Pakistan had been coming from civil as well as ...

* Surveyor General of Sri Lanka (formerly Surveyor General of Ceylon) *Surveyors general in the United States and its colonial predecessors: **

Surveyor General of the United States Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them. A land surveying professional is c ...

Surveyor General of Arizona The Surveyor General of Arizona is served by the State Treasurer In the state governments of the United States, 48 of the 50 states have the executive position of treasurer. New York abolished the position in 1926; duties were transferred to N ...

Surveyor General of North Carolina Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them. A land surveying professional is c ...

*** Surveyor General of the

Province of North Carolina Province of North Carolina was a province of Great Britain that existed in North America from 1712(p. 80) to 1776. It was one of the five Southern colonies and one of the thirteen American colonies. The monarch of Great Britain was repre ...

Surveyor General of the Northwest Territory The Surveyor General of the Northwest Territory was a United States government official responsible for surveying land in the Northwest Territory in the United States late in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. The position was cre ...

(today's north-central U.S.) **

Surveyor General of the Eastern District Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them. A land surveying professional is ...

** Surveyor General of

Spanish Louisiana Spanish Louisiana ( es, link=no, la Luisiana) was a governorate and administrative district of the Viceroyalty of New Spain from 1762 to 1801 that consisted of a vast territory in the center of North America encompassing the western basin of t ...

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