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

Service is Job #1

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 J. Young

Leadership for Established Company

Frontier Surveying Company, in operation since 1979 is now under the ownership of Ivy Young, President and CEO. Ms Young’s past has been deeply rooted in the Surveying industry. Even before birth her father, a pioneer in the design and manufacturing of wooden Stakes for Surveying & Construction purposes, worked jointly with her Mother to establish and run Easy Drive Stake Mfg. Through her father’s father she is a direct decendent of Jose Policarpo (Polly) Rodriguez, a Pioneer Surveyor of Texas.

Ms. Young has enjoyed over 20 years experience in the profession of surveying, with the first 10 years &in the field& operating a total station and GPS, locating boundaries, buried well locations & pipelines, as well as pounding hubs for construction staking. That adventure began in Ft. Worth at the Botanical Gardens, moved to the busy streets of Houston, and then the hill country area surrounding San Marcos, Wimberley, Austin, Dripping Springs, Boerne, and even historic Independence Texas. A contract seismic project in the Victoria area launched an association with Dale Moore, founder of Frontier Surveying which progressed toward purchase of the company allowing Dale’s desired retirement.

Subsequent years "in the office" included positions as Business Leader and Business Development Manager responsible for human resource development operations, strategic initiatives, and the continued educational growth and financial performance within the organization.

Ms. Young is a Board Member of the Desk & Derrick Club of Corpus Christi, an Associate Member of TSPS & NSPS. Ms. Young obtained a Bachelor of Science at the University of Texas in Austin and enrolled in the first program of the Master of Science in Geospatial Surveying and Engineering at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi. She is also a proud member of the Daughter’s of the Republic of Texas.

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.