David W. King, PS
Senior Survey Manager, Alum Creek Office

Began his surveying career in 1990 and has worked for three previous surveying firms, one underground  mining company, and one surface mining company.  From 1998 to 2003, he worked closely with the owner of this firm, Marshall Robinson, who, while owning Allegheny Surveys, was also a partner with another surveyor in the firm of Augusta Land Consultants, a surveying firm located in Danville, WV. Together they solved the boundaries on numerous difficult surveys on large timber and coal tracts, including one 25,000 acre boundary survey and a 7,000 acre boundary survey. He also gained a fair amount of well location experience while working for Augusta Land Consultants. He obtained his license in 2000 after completing the mandatory eight years of experience.  In 2004 he founded Frontier Surveys in Danville, WV, which he operated for a few years thereafter as a city lot and rural boundary surveying firm, performing a variety of surveys for private landowners, until he gained employment in the coal industry, performing all types of surveys relevant to deep and surface mine operations.  

Proficient in the performance of ALTA/ACSM surveys, boundary surveys, design surveys for engineering support, construction layout, underground mine surveys, surface mine surveys, topographic surveys, GPS networks, control surveys, and gas well surveys.  The majority of his experience has been in the performance of all types of boundary surveys throughout southern West Virginia

He was employed by Allegheny Surveys, Inc. in January, 2009 as the Senior Survey Manager of the Alum Creek Office.