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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anderson County | 21005 | KY | 2019-01 | 12.8k | 9.9 MB | Get |
| Ballard County | 21007 | KY | 2024-01 | 8.5k | 46.9 MB | Get |
| Ballard County | 21007 | KY | 2022-05 | 8.5k | 47.0 MB | Get |
| Ballard County | 21007 | KY | 2020-09 | 7.3k | 8.5 MB | Get |
| Barren County | 21009 | KY | 2022-05 | 27.6k | 20.8 MB | Get |
| Barren County | 21009 | KY | 2016-10 | 23.7k | 14.2 MB | Get |
| Bath County | 21011 | KY | 2022-05 | 8.4k | 53.6 MB | Get |
| Bath County | 21011 | KY | 2021-07 | 7.2k | 8.7 MB | Get |
| Boone County | 21015 | KY | 2022-05 | 53.5k | 96.1 MB | Get |
| Boone County | 21015 | KY | 2018-10 | 50.8k | 85.5 MB | Get |
| Bourbon County | 21017 | KY | 2022-05 | 11.0k | 26.8 MB | Get |
| Boyd County | 21019 | KY | 2024-05 | 25.4k | 25.8 MB | Get |
| Boyd County | 21019 | KY | 2022-05 | 41.2k | 25.1 MB | Get |
| Boyle County | 21021 | KY | 2022-05 | 13.0k | 9.3 MB | Get |
| Boyle County | 21021 | KY | 2017-01 | 13.0k | 7.9 MB | Get |
| Boyle County | 21021 | KY | 2016-01 | 13.0k | 8.6 MB | Get |
| Bracken County | 21023 | KY | 2022-05 | 8.8k | 19.9 MB | Get |
| Bracken County | 21023 | KY | 2018-11 | 5.9k | 7.8 MB | Get |
| Breathitt County | 21025 | KY | 2022-03 | 9.9k | 19.1 MB | Get |
| Breckinridge County | 21027 | KY | 2022-01 | 28.2k | 19.0 MB | Get |
| Bullitt County | 21029 | KY | 2022-05 | 39.9k | 29.9 MB | Get |
| Bullitt County | 21029 | KY | 2019-01 | 34.7k | 30.4 MB | Get |
| Bullitt County | 21029 | KY | 2017-02 | 34.8k | 24.0 MB | Get |
| Bullitt County | 21029 | KY | 2017-02 | 34.3k | 17.3 MB | Get |
| Butler County | 21031 | KY | 2021-12 | 10.9k | 12.0 MB | Get |
| Caldwell County | 21033 | KY | 2024-04 | 11.8k | 10.0 MB | Get |
| Caldwell County | 21033 | KY | 2021-04 | 9.4k | 8.6 MB | Get |
| Calloway County | 21035 | KY | 2022-05 | 47.0k | 174 MB | Get |
| Campbell County | 21037 | KY | 2022-05 | 37.4k | 38.7 MB | Get |
| Campbell County | 21037 | KY | 2018-11 | 34.8k | 35.2 MB | Get |
| Carlisle County | 21039 | KY | 2024-01 | 4.7k | 4.0 MB | Get |
| Carlisle County | 21039 | KY | 2022-05 | 4.7k | 4.0 MB | Get |
| Carroll County | 21041 | KY | 2022-05 | 7.7k | 7.0 MB | Get |
| Carter County | 21043 | KY | 2022-05 | 19.3k | 47.6 MB | Get |
| Casey County | 21045 | KY | 2021-11 | 11.8k | 12.5 MB | Get |
| Christian County | 21047 | KY | 2021-02 | 28.8k | 24.0 MB | Get |
| Clark County | 21049 | KY | 2022-05 | 17.5k | 16.5 MB | Get |
| Clark County | 21049 | KY | 2020-12 | 17.2k | 15.5 MB | Get |
| Clay County | 21051 | KY | 2023-10 | 16.7k | 19.9 MB | Get |
| Daviess County | 21059 | KY | 2022-05 | 53.8k | 30.7 MB | Get |
| Edmonson County | 21061 | KY | 2022-05 | 13.8k | 42.5 MB | Get |
| Edmonson County | 21061 | KY | 2016-11 | 12.5k | 8.3 MB | Get |
| Edmonson County | 21061 | KY | 2016-11 | 12.9k | 9.7 MB | Get |
| Elliott County | 21063 | KY | 2023-12 | 5.9k | 19.3 MB | Get |
| Elliott County | 21063 | KY | 2022-05 | 5.9k | 17.8 MB | Get |
| Fleming County | 21069 | KY | 2022-05 | 11.1k | 69.4 MB | Get |
| Floyd County | 21071 | KY | 2021-05 | 26.4k | 19.6 MB | Get |
| Floyd County | 21071 | KY | 2021-05 | 23.8k | 17.1 MB | Get |
| Franklin County | 21073 | KY | 2022-05 | 25.9k | 20.0 MB | Get |
| Franklin County | 21073 | KY | 2019-01 | 22.6k | 16.1 MB | Get |
| Fulton County | 21075 | KY | 2022-05 | 6.2k | 6.1 MB | Get |
| Gallatin County | 21077 | KY | 2022-05 | 6.1k | 6.4 MB | Get |
| Garrard County | 21079 | KY | 2021-05 | 10.8k | 15.4 MB | Get |
| Grant County | 21081 | KY | 2022-05 | 15.0k | 13.0 MB | Get |
| Graves County | 21083 | KY | 2022-05 | 34.4k | 19.9 MB | Get |
| Graves County | 21083 | KY | 2018-11 | 29.0k | 13.1 MB | Get |
| Grayson County | 21085 | KY | 2022-05 | 36.5k | 472 MB | Get |
| Green County | 21087 | KY | 2022-05 | 11.3k | 34.6 MB | Get |
| Greenup County | 21089 | KY | 2022-05 | 22.9k | 20.2 MB | Get |
| Greenup County | 21089 | KY | 2020-02 | 22.9k | 25.3 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.