L I Smith & Associates

Land Development transforms landscapes into functional residential, commercial, and industrial spaces. We handle planning, zoning, and construction layout, ensuring sustainable solutions tailored to client needs. Our expertise meets evolving regulatory and environmental standards.

Infrastructure Design focuses on roads, bridges, and water systems essential for societal sustainability. We provide end-to-end solutions from surveys to construction layout, ensuring functional and innovative developments that meet public and private sector demands.

Surveying Services establish the foundation for all land projects. We offer precise mapping and boundary assessments using advanced technology, ensuring accuracy for transportation, housing, and industrial developments across multistate regions.

Patrick Smith leads LIS with expertise in engineering and surveying, holding licenses in multiple states. He expanded the Nashville office and emphasizes professional development and technology integration.

Founder Larry Smith has 45+ years of experience, founding LIS in 1975. A veteran and licensed in seven states, he focuses on industry leadership and community service.

Chris Conrad oversees daily operations as COO, managing LIS's Nashville office with 30+ years of surveying and leadership experience.

Tommy Young directs surveying operations with 28 years of experience, licensed in 10 states. Recognized as 2024 Surveyor of the Year, he mentors teams on diverse projects.

We provide land development, infrastructure design, and surveying services across 12 U.S. states.

Our service areas include Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, and 9 other Central and Southeastern states.

We've delivered engineering and surveying solutions since 1975, with 50+ years of combined leadership experience.

Our multistate expertise, cutting-edge technology, and commitment to sustainable, community-focused projects distinguish us.

By far the best service around. I highly recommend doing business with them. If I could give them a higher rating I would!

Hands down the only good place to get your land surveying done around the Paris and Nashville area. 10 out of 10.

Great people business been around for forever. Good family owned business everyone in Paris and Nashville should go to. Give it a 10 out of 10

Not impressed at all. Gave 1 star because I couldn't do a negative star review. Final results have left us feeling lied to & cheated. Made an appointment for a month out, due to their busy schedule. No call, no show. I called that evening after waiting all day, and eventually got a voicemail later that night saying they were delayed and would reschedule. Their team finally showed up, but never let us know they were on the property, our dogs alerted us to their presence. Despite, county plot lines and 3 different family members of the former owners, independently telling them where the old property line was established (this has been family property for over 100 years), they shaved off a sizable amount of our land. There has been some talk as to question their integrity and willingness to alter lines to benefit more affluent land holders.

Had survey done in 2019 and just now found out that it is wrong. They are correcting but if owner of adjacent property hadn't questioned our original survey, who knows how long we would have been clueless.