Applied Connections
This is an educator internship and visit program. Each year, groups of motivated teachers from Corpus Christi and surrounding districts come together to see how the real world uses what they teach. In June, 2000, these teachers completed a full 40-hour work week at our site, along with two others. There are middle school science, mathematics and language arts teachers that get to experience first hand what goes on in our company in a regular work week.
- Letter of Appreciation.


Corpus Christi Area Heritage Society
Frontier Surveying Company donated the time and labor to survey the 1849 Centennial House. The House provides an incredible link to the wild and colorful history of South Texas. The house has survived war, Indian raids, bandits, hurricanes, and time.
Newspaper Article


Ground Hog Day / Career Day
Three Robstown High School Seniors, through the efforts of the Career & Technology Department of Robstown High School, came to our firm and learned about the applications of drafting and mathematics in the surveying field. They got to meet and discuss the nature of surveying with our employees and got a hands-on experience with a field of occupation that they could go into.

Certificate of Appreciation
TEXACO Safety Award

Other organizations supported include:
- Nueces County 4-H Skeet and Trap Club
- OSO Pony Baseball


Frontier Surveying Company is committed to being the leader in Boundary Surveying and Mapping and positively impacting the surveying profession, by meeting our clients’ needs in a timely manner consistent with the rules mandated by the Texas Board of Professional Land Surveyors.

Ivy is the President/CEO of Frontier Surveying. Ivy was named as Frontier’s CEO in July 2002. She has also served as Vice President and then President of Ivy Rod Inc. since 1992, which currently owns Frontier Surveying in Corpus Christi, Texas. She is currently President of the Desk & Derrick Club of Corpus Christi, Texas.

Ivy’s vision for Frontier has been to create a surveying company to fulfill the needs of the growing communities in Texas and also to provide an opportunity for new geomatics graduates from the local university to develop their skills and work experience in a local, progressive, and quality company. Ivy’s past has been deeply rooted in the Surveying industry and has been a driving force in the vision and operation of Frontier. Ivy holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Texas at Austin.





Surveying before X, Y's

J. Dale Moore founded Frontier Surveying in 1979, before Geographic Coordinates (X,Y's) were the key in staking a new location. The lease lines, survey lines and or historical wells in the area were surveyed to place the location called for by the company that Frontier was doing work for. The location was staked using the current technology for that time period. The introduction of Global Position Systems (GPS) and 3-D Seismic introduced a new way of doing business. The geographic coordinates are sent to us by the geologist or company using data obtained from 3-D Seismic. The placement of the location is staked according to the geographic coordinates, along with the staking of the location, the lease lines, survey lines and historical wells are also obtained by using GPS. The challenge with the companies working with 3-D Seismic data is that the geographic coordinates might look good for a location, but the location may not be a legal location according to lease lines or it's position on the ground may not be accessible for a drilling rig.

It is crucial for Frontier to survey in the lease lines to verify that the location is legal according to the rules set forth by the Texas Railroad Commission or other government entities. Some of our clients are not using seismic to produce geographic coordinates for locations they want drilled. The same principals apply that Frontier will survey in the lease lines, survey lines and or the historical wells and produce a geographic coordinate by using (GPS). The surveying and mapping industry has evolved with technological changes, as have most all industries. Well locations and leases have been the backbone of Frontier Surveying in the 54 counties in the South Texas area in which we work.

Since the beginning of Frontier Surveying, Dale Moore has done a fantastic job in relating the locations to the State Plane Coordinate system (NAD27). Several of the surveys over the past 20 years have been measuring on the X, Y grid system that many are familiar with. Because all of the work has been done on the same coordinate system, and earlier measurements made with conventional tools were actually very precise, we have been able to reproduce many of the locations of most of the work done. The biggest difference in today's surveying is the amount of time saved by using GPS instead of conventional surveying tools. Now when you give us an X,Y, we simply use GPS to do the same job in much less time. Time is money and everyone wins when we get your needs met in a timely fashion.

Metes and Bounds
Unlike most states that have a public land system, Texas does not. We are a state that had land granted to settlers from Spain, Mexico, The Republic of Texas, and the State of Texas. The grantors had different instructions for the surveyors who laid out the Surveys and Land Grants. To this day, there has been a great deal of confusion by many people as to how the land has been conveyed and granted. The fact that the date of the survey is extremely important as it dictates what type of law governs the decisions of the original surveyors as well as those decisions made by those of us who's task is to follow the footsteps of the original surveyor. Texas is also unique in our application of survey rules that pertain to the riverbeds, and the minerals that are contained within.

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