Mr. Houston’s experience ranges from small residential surveys to a $220,000,000 military project. These projects include lot surveys, subdivisions, ranch surveys, topographic surveys, route surveys, Patent surveys, construction staking, boundary disputes, as-builts, easements, location staking and accident surveys. Mr. Houston has supervised staking and preparing permit plats for several thousand oil and gas wells. These include both vertical and horizontal wells. He also has extensive experience in boundary surveying of more than 200,000 acres in west Texas. These include surveys for vacancies, Patents and Deeds of Acquittance involving the Texas General Land Office. Clients have included local residents and ranchers, developers, the Texas General Land Office, city, county and state agencies, large and small oil companies and attorneys. Mr. Houston is also experienced in consulting, litigation, depositions and preparing documents for court exhibits.
The normal job site lies within about 150 miles of San Angelo. This includes the 18 county area of west Texas including Coke, Concho, Crockett, Edwards, Glasscock, Irion, Kimble, Menard, Midland, Pecos, Reagan, Runnels, Schleicher, Sterling, Sutton, Tom Green, Upton and Val Verde counties.
Mr. Houston received a Bachelor’s Degree in surveying in 1981 from Ferris State College in Big Rapids, Michigan. He became a Registered Professional Land Surveyor in Texas in 1984, a Licensed Land Surveyor in Michigan in 1988 and a Texas Licensed State Land Surveyor in 1999.