Two numbers stay separate.
The professional-service range comes from current national consumer-cost benchmarks and a published provider market check. A government fee is shown only when an official agency publishes a recognizable soil-evaluation, perc-test, observation, or review charge.
We do not automatically add the two. A provider quote may already include an agency fee, and a government fee can bundle services that a private benchmark describes separately.
Why the lookup asks only for a location.
The current sources support a broad $750–$1,900 professional benchmark, not a parcel-specific calculation. Project purpose, acreage, soil, access, and equipment can affect a real quote, but the available evidence does not justify fixed nationwide adjustments. The lookup therefore uses location only to find an applicable state, county, or municipal government fee record.
Unlike services are not shown as a range.
When an agency publishes different fees for new evaluations, repairs, visits, excavation responsibility, or permit packages, each fee stays on its own labeled line. The lookup does not imply that the lowest and highest amounts cover the same work.
Local-page publication rule.
A jurisdiction page is indexable only when the agency, terminology, fee scope, official source, and check date are recorded. If the public source is unclear, the site should say “not verified” rather than borrow a neighboring county’s number.