RE: So educate me on Plat maps
It's a to scale drawing of a piece of property. The best source is usually at the County level. They have plat maps of every piece of property within the county. They're in large books. It's all for tax purposes and keeping track of who owns what. Most counties will let you browse the plat books to find out owners, size etc. Most will make you a copy of a plat map on a smaller scale if you want but they'll charge you a fee. Sometimes the local townships, parishes or whateverwill have the same things for their town and will let you find info. The more populated the area the bigger the books.