Ground Point

Land due diligence · one parcel at a time

A map is homework.We hand you the verdict.

Ground Point tells you what is actually wrong with a piece of land before you buy it. Any parcel in the United States. About ten minutes. $99.

Flood, wetlands, soils, terrain and habitat, reconciled into one call: CLEAR, CONDITIONS or WALK AWAY. Every claim cited to its dataset and vintage.

Drop a point — free→Or read a sample Ground Report first.
No signup, no card for the free check.
Aerial imagery of the sample parcel, with the mapped floodway traced along the creek bottom.
FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer, vintage 2024-11-19 · queried 2026-08-23

Nationwide

federal coverage, day one

9 datasets

queried on every point

4 to 8 min

to a written verdict

Every claim

cited to source and vintage

01 — The situation

The information that kills the deal is free, and scattered across a dozen map services.

A floodway across the buildable acre. Half the lot in non-jurisdictional wetland. 31% slope. Soils that will never pass a perc test. No legal frontage.

All of it is public record. None of it speaks to each other. So the person screening thirty parcels a month picks one of five bad options.

Five browser tabs and your own eyes

$0

A call you cannot defend to a partner

45 to 120 min

A mapping subscription

$500 to $2,000 / yr

Forty layers and no conclusion

Instant

A desktop due-diligence consultant

$1,000 to $10,000

A real answer, after the option period closes

1 to 3 weeks

The $149 county pre-screen

$149

Questions to go ask the county yourself

Days

A Ground Report

$99

A verdict, the findings, and the receipts

About 10 min

The second parcel of the day is where discipline dies.

02 — The artifact

A Ground Report commits to a call, then shows its work.

A sample on an illustrative parcel, laid out exactly as the report is delivered. Not a live query.

Ground Point

Sample · Ground Report · 2026-08-23

Verdict

A brass survey benchmark disc set in concrete.

WALK AWAY

You didn’t buy it. That’s the money.

Point
35.59417, -83.07306
County
Swain, North Carolina
Acres
9.6 acres
Intended use
Manufactured home
Findings
3 · 2 severe

Findings, worst first

01

Severity Severe · Confidence High

The regulatory floodway crosses the only buildable bench

The FEMA regulatory floodway covers 1.9 of the 2.4 acres above the creek. That bench is the only ground on the parcel under 10% slope. New habitable structures in a floodway require a no-rise certification.

Cost to resolve Not resolvable by study. The floodway is where it is.

Who to ask County floodplain administrator

02

Severity Severe · Confidence Moderate

No mapped legal frontage on a maintained road

The parcel touches no road in the county's maintained-route layer. Its only visible access is a private track crossing the neighbouring deed. Access by use is not access by right.

Cost to resolve $3,000 to $12,000 to negotiate and record an easement, if the neighbour agrees.

Who to ask County register of deeds, then a real-estate attorney

03

Severity Moderate · Confidence High

Soils are rated severely limited for a conventional septic field

USDA soil map units across 4.1 acres carry a severe limitation for septic absorption fields. Depth to restrictive layer is the stated reason. A perc test is the only thing that settles it.

Cost to resolve $1,200 to $4,500 for an engineered system, if a perc test passes.

Who to ask County environmental health office

Checked and cleared

National Wetlands Inventory

No mapped wetland inside the parcel boundary

USFWS critical habitat

None designated at this location

USGS 3DEP terrain

Mean slope 8% on the bench, 22% on the north face

EPA facility registry

No listed site within 0.5 miles

Scope — what this report is not

Not a title search. Not a survey. Not a wetland delineation. Not legal advice. Not a county sign-off. Where the data cannot support a verdict we say so, and we do not charge for the difference.

Source appendix

FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer

FEMA · vintage 2024-11-19 · queried 2026-08-23

National Wetlands Inventory

USFWS · vintage 2025-05-01 · queried 2026-08-23

gSSURGO soil survey

USDA NRCS · vintage 2025-08-01 · queried 2026-08-23

3DEP 1-metre elevation

USGS · vintage 2023-04-12 · queried 2026-08-23

Critical habitat, listed species

USFWS · vintage 2025-06-30 · queried 2026-08-23

Geocoding services

US Census Bureau · vintage 2025-01-01 · queried 2026-08-23

03 — How it will work

Ten seconds of your work. The rest is ours.

  1. 1

    Drop a point

    Paste an address, a parcel ID, or coordinates. Or click the map. No layer pickers, no boundary to draw, no account.

  2. 2

    Ground Check answers free, in about five seconds

    The flood zone as FEMA writes it, and how many findings sit on that point. This part costs nothing, so you never pay on faith.

  3. 3

    One question, already answered

    A floodway matters differently to a house pad than to a hunting lease. The default is a house or a manufactured home.

  4. 4

    The Ground Report, in four to eight minutes

    Nine authorities queried in sequence, on screen while it runs. Verdict, findings, cost to resolve, and the Source Appendix.

Generating · 35.59417, -83.07306

FEMA National Flood Hazard Layerqueried
USFWS National Wetlands Inventoryqueried
USDA gSSURGO soilsqueried
USGS 3DEP terrainqueried
USFWS critical habitatqueried
County maintained routesqueried
EPA facility registryqueried
Census geocoderqueried
County Rulebooknot researched

Every competitor hides this behind a progress bar. Watching nine authorities get interrogated on your behalf is the thing you are buying.

04 — Price

One credit is one report. No subscription.

Credits never expire. They sit in the account until a parcel needs one. Your income is deal-by-deal, so ours is too.

Single

one report

$99

Pack of 5

$89 a report

$445

Pack of 20

$79 a report

$1,580

Pack of 100

$69 a report

$6,900

Later, in counties where the County Rulebook is researched: a Deep Report at $399, adding zoning, permitted use, minimum lot size, septic authority and access.

05 — The standard

We never speculate, and we never decline to conclude.

A report that says “you should probably look into this” has failed. We state what the data supports, we go silent where it doesn’t, and we name what is missing. A sentence of fact with no citation is a bug.

We describe the land. You make the decision.

Coverage

Nationwide from day one on the federal layers, because those layers are nationwide. County rules deepen in the order customers ask for them. United States only, because the data supply is.

Drop a point — free

The check is free and takes no signup. A Ground Report is $99, or less in a pack.