Austin Bennington is the owner and founder of Town and Range Surveying. He is a native Oregonian with over 25 years of surveying experience.

While growing up in Gresham, Austin didn't plan on becoming a land surveyor. He was studying electrical engineering at OIT in Klamath Falls when he noticed a survey crew working in the courtyard. Something clicked. He dropped the textbooks, picked up a rod, and never looked back.

That instinct has driven a career spanning nearly every kind of survey imaginable—starting with the Bureau of Land Management in New Mexico, then a decade at David Evans & Associates handling infrastructure, route surveying, and large- and small-scale mapping. Years with the City of Gresham sharpened his understanding of process and what clients actually need, even when they don't know how to ask for it.

That last part matters most to Austin. "People know they need help to solve a problem, but they don't know the right question to ask." His job is to listen, dig in, and deliver exactly the right solution.

Oregon's landscapes throw everything at a surveyor: blackberries, cliffs, waterways, traffic, the occasional angry cow. Austin loves all of it. The variety, the problem-solving, the time outdoors. He especially loves the history embedded in the land: old survey markers made from rifle barrels, wagon axles, even antique bottles. Every project is a small act of historical detective work.

Austin founded Town and Range Surveying to bring that experience directly to Oregon homeowners, businesses, and government agencies. He knows this state's land, its neighborhoods, and its records—and he's built a practice around getting it right every time.

His favorite jobs? "Where nobody knows, and I have to figure it out."