Format shp
Parcel Data in Shapefile
The format every desktop GIS reads without being asked, and the one most county assessors still publish.
- Datasets available
- 3,720
- Extension
- .zip (.shp/.shx/.dbf/.prj)
- Media type
- application/zip
- Geometry
- yes
Take it when
Anything that has to open on someone else's machine without a conversation about drivers. Thirty years of tooling assumes it.
Watch out for
Field names are truncated to 10 characters and the DBF attribute table has no real text encoding declaration, so long assessor column names arrive mangled. The 2 GB per-file ceiling is a real limit on the biggest urban counties.
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Counties available as Shapefile
| County | GEOID | State | Vintage | Parcels | Size | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perry County | 18123 | IN | 2018-01 | 17.2k | 15.2 MB | Get |
| Porter County | 18127 | IN | 2023-03 | 81.7k | 66.3 MB | Get |
| Posey County | 18129 | IN | 2018-01 | 20.0k | 20.1 MB | Get |
| Pulaski County | 18131 | IN | 2023-06 | 17.9k | 11.7 MB | Get |
| Randolph County | 18135 | IN | 2022-05 | 18.4k | 20.5 MB | Get |
| Scott County | 18143 | IN | 2024-06 | 15.9k | 11.5 MB | Get |
| Spencer County | 18147 | IN | 2018-01 | 23.0k | 18.4 MB | Get |
| Tippecanoe County | 18157 | IN | 2023-10 | 80.8k | 80.2 MB | Get |
| Tippecanoe County | 18157 | IN | 2022-05 | 90.8k | 65.1 MB | Get |
| Vanderburgh County | 18163 | IN | 2018-01 | 78.3k | 123 MB | Get |
| Vermillion County | 18165 | IN | 2021-02 | 12.9k | 10.6 MB | Get |
| Vermillion County | 18165 | IN | 2020-03 | 12.8k | 11.5 MB | Get |
| Vigo County | 18167 | IN | 2023-12 | 59.9k | 68.1 MB | Get |
| Wabash County | 18169 | IN | 2022-05 | 21.0k | 18.1 MB | Get |
| Warrick County | 18173 | IN | 2018-01 | 38.8k | 34.0 MB | Get |
| Washington County | 18175 | IN | 2024-06 | 19.9k | 16.3 MB | Get |
| Washington County | 18175 | IN | 2023-01 | 19.9k | 16.0 MB | Get |
| Wells County | 18179 | IN | 2022-06 | 19.3k | 18.1 MB | Get |
| White County | 18181 | IN | 2023-03 | 23.1k | 23.9 MB | Get |
| White County | 18181 | IN | 2022-05 | 23.1k | 23.6 MB | Get |
| Whitley County | 18183 | IN | 2022-05 | 22.6k | 18.6 MB | Get |
| Appanoose County | 19007 | IA | 2022-12 | 22.2k | 44.0 MB | Get |
| Appanoose County | 19007 | IA | 2018-04 | 22.2k | 43.9 MB | Get |
| Benton County | 19011 | IA | 2018-04 | 17.2k | 14.2 MB | Get |
| Buchanan County | 19019 | IA | 2022-11 | 20.6k | 37.6 MB | Get |
| Buena Vista County | 19021 | IA | 2024-03 | 22.1k | 20.8 MB | Get |
| Butler County | 19023 | IA | 2020-02 | 13.6k | 12.1 MB | Get |
| Calhoun County | 19025 | IA | 2024-03 | 17.8k | 10.6 MB | Get |
| Carroll County | 19027 | IA | 2024-04 | 22.4k | 14.0 MB | Get |
| Cedar County | 19031 | IA | 2022-12 | 19.9k | 22.2 MB | Get |
| Cerro Gordo County | 19033 | IA | 2016-02 | 38.3k | 22.5 MB | Get |
| Chickasaw County | 19037 | IA | 2020-01 | 9.7k | 11.3 MB | Get |
| Clarke County | 19039 | IA | 2018-04 | 12.0k | 8.0 MB | Get |
| Clay County | 19041 | IA | 2022-10 | 20.3k | 16.6 MB | Get |
| Clinton County | 19045 | IA | 2022-05 | 38.9k | 28.1 MB | Get |
| Clinton County | 19045 | IA | 2021-12 | 34.6k | 36.4 MB | Get |
| Crawford County | 19047 | IA | 2022-11 | 22.8k | 15.5 MB | Get |
| Davis County | 19051 | IA | 2023-10 | 13.8k | 10.4 MB | Get |
| Delaware County | 19055 | IA | 2022-05 | 17.6k | 21.4 MB | Get |
| Des Moines County | 19057 | IA | 2023-10 | 28.7k | 35.6 MB | Get |
| Des Moines County | 19057 | IA | 2022-10 | 28.7k | 35.4 MB | Get |
| Des Moines County | 19057 | IA | 2021-10 | 28.8k | 35.6 MB | Get |
| Des Moines County | 19057 | IA | 2018-04 | 29.7k | 79.0 MB | Get |
| Dickinson County | 19059 | IA | 2022-11 | 30.5k | 38.5 MB | Get |
| Dubuque County | 19061 | IA | 2022-05 | 52.4k | 42.5 MB | Get |
| Fayette County | 19065 | IA | 2018-07 | 16.6k | 13.4 MB | Get |
| Floyd County | 19067 | IA | 2022-11 | 11.9k | 14.8 MB | Get |
| Franklin County | 19069 | IA | 2022-11 | 20.2k | 11.9 MB | Get |
| Greene County | 19073 | IA | 2024-03 | 16.9k | 11.2 MB | Get |
| Greene County | 19073 | IA | 2022-11 | 16.9k | 11.2 MB | Get |
| Grundy County | 19075 | IA | 2018-04 | 10.0k | 8.0 MB | Get |
| Harrison County | 19085 | IA | 2023-10 | 28.7k | 20.6 MB | Get |
| Henry County | 19087 | IA | 2022-10 | 18.7k | 14.3 MB | Get |
| Howard County | 19089 | IA | 2024-04 | 13.7k | 13.5 MB | Get |
| Howard County | 19089 | IA | 2020-01 | 13.2k | 23.7 MB | Get |
| Ida County | 19093 | IA | 2022-11 | 11.7k | 9.6 MB | Get |
| Iowa County | 19095 | IA | 2022-11 | 21.9k | 17.1 MB | Get |
| Jasper County | 19099 | IA | 2016-02 | 29.8k | 27.5 MB | Get |
| Jefferson County | 19101 | IA | 2022-11 | 18.3k | 20.0 MB | Get |
| Jones County | 19105 | IA | 2022-11 | 26.2k | 22.4 MB | Get |
Other formats
geojson
GeoJSON
Plain text, WGS84, readable in a browser and in a code review. The web's parcel format.
gpkg
GeoPackage
One SQLite file, full-length field names, real CRS metadata, no sidecar files to lose.
csv
CSV
The attribute table with the geometry left behind — parcel IDs, owners, addresses, valuations.
parquet
GeoParquet
Columnar, compressed, and typed. Built for reading one column of ten million parcels rather than one parcel at a time.