Finally, someone built software for when a river literally steals your land
OxbowTrace resolves meander cutoff real estate title disputes by cross-referencing historical river survey data against county parcel records in real time. When a flood event permanently shifts a waterway and severs a chunk of property from its original parcel, OxbowTrace tells you exactly who owns what before the lawyers even get their boots muddy. This is the software that riparian title law has needed for a hundred years.
- Automated meander cutoff detection against PLSS township and range boundaries
- Cross-references over 140 years of USGS hydrographic survey data per query
- Native integration with county GIS parcel APIs for live ownership chain resolution
- Flags avulsion vs. accretion events with legally defensible audit trails
- Full FEMA FIRM panel overlay — no manual lookup
ArcGIS Online, ESRI REST Services, TNMAccess (USGS), CoreLogic PropertyData, FEMA NFIPConnect, TitlePoint, RipariaSoft Survey Exchange, SoftPro 360, Simplifile, LandVision, CountyBridge API, DataTrace FAST
OxbowTrace runs as a set of independently deployable microservices — ingestion, resolution, audit, and render — coordinated through a Redis message broker backed by MongoDB for the core title transaction ledger. Geospatial query performance at county scale is handled by a custom spatial index layer I wrote myself after PostGIS couldn't meet the sub-300ms resolution target I wasn't willing to compromise on. The frontend is a lean React shell that talks exclusively to a versioned internal API; nothing in this stack is accidental.
🟢 Production. Actively maintained.
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