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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medina County | 39103 | OH | 2018-01 | 130k | 217 MB | Get |
| Meigs County | 39105 | OH | 2021-07 | 29.4k | 27.9 MB | Get |
| Meigs County | 39105 | OH | 2019-11 | 29.4k | 25.7 MB | Get |
| Meigs County | 39105 | OH | 2017-10 | 29.4k | 18.0 MB | Get |
| Meigs County | 39105 | OH | 2014-09 | 18.7k | 13.5 MB | Get |
| Mercer County | 39107 | OH | 2022-10 | 27.2k | 47.7 MB | Get |
| Miami County | 39109 | OH | 2023-01 | 52.8k | 41.7 MB | Get |
| Miami County | 39109 | OH | 2017-07 | 48.4k | 45.2 MB | Get |
| Monroe County | 39111 | OH | 2022-10 | 17.3k | 23.4 MB | Get |
| Monroe County | 39111 | OH | 2017-04 | 17.1k | 19.7 MB | Get |
| Montgomery County | 39113 | OH | 2022-06 | 273k | 523 MB | Get |
| Morgan County | 39115 | OH | 2024-04 | 19.1k | 29.5 MB | Get |
| Morgan County | 39115 | OH | 2022-04 | 19.1k | 15.6 MB | Get |
| Noble County | 39121 | OH | 2024-04 | 16.4k | 16.7 MB | Get |
| Noble County | 39121 | OH | 2023-09 | 16.4k | 11.8 MB | Get |
| Noble County | 39121 | OH | 2022-04 | 16.4k | 20.0 MB | Get |
| Noble County | 39121 | OH | 2014-09 | 17.0k | 16.2 MB | Get |
| Paulding County | 39125 | OH | 2022-10 | 17.9k | 11.6 MB | Get |
| Paulding County | 39125 | OH | 2016-09 | 29.5k | 12.7 MB | Get |
| Perry County | 39127 | OH | 2022-04 | 29.9k | 21.9 MB | Get |
| Pike County | 39131 | OH | 2022-04 | 23.7k | 27.6 MB | Get |
| Portage County | 39133 | OH | 2024-04 | 75.5k | 91.5 MB | Get |
| Portage County | 39133 | OH | 2022-10 | 100k | 113 MB | Get |
| Portage County | 39133 | OH | 2018-08 | 99.5k | 70.3 MB | Get |
| Preble County | 39135 | OH | 2022-06 | 27.5k | 37.9 MB | Get |
| Preble County | 39135 | OH | 2016-09 | 25.8k | 35.6 MB | Get |
| Putnam County | 39137 | OH | 2024-04 | 30.3k | 26.3 MB | Get |
| Putnam County | 39137 | OH | 2022-10 | 30.1k | 26.1 MB | Get |
| Richland County | 39139 | OH | 2022-04 | 84.5k | 51.7 MB | Get |
| Richland County | 39139 | OH | 2022-04 | 75.8k | 45.6 MB | Get |
| Ross County | 39141 | OH | 2021-07 | 44.2k | 50.0 MB | Get |
| Ross County | 39141 | OH | 2016-07 | 43.4k | 39.9 MB | Get |
| Sandusky County | 39143 | OH | 2024-04 | 33.1k | 26.9 MB | Get |
| Sandusky County | 39143 | OH | 2022-04 | 35.9k | 26.0 MB | Get |
| Scioto County | 39145 | OH | 2022-04 | 58.7k | 83.3 MB | Get |
| Scioto County | 39145 | OH | 2017-06 | 58.4k | 94.2 MB | Get |
| Scioto County | 39145 | OH | 2014-09 | 57.4k | 56.0 MB | Get |
| Seneca County | 39147 | OH | 2024-04 | 46.3k | 31.3 MB | Get |
| Seneca County | 39147 | OH | 2024-04 | 46.3k | 29.5 MB | Get |
| Seneca County | 39147 | OH | 2022-10 | 46.4k | 33.2 MB | Get |
| Shelby County | 39149 | OH | 2024-02 | 31.6k | 47.9 MB | Get |
| Shelby County | 39149 | OH | 2022-10 | 31.5k | 47.9 MB | Get |
| Summit County | 39153 | OH | 2020-11 | 260k | 233 MB | Get |
| Summit County | 39153 | OH | 2018-08 | 261k | 220 MB | Get |
| Trumbull County | 39155 | OH | 2022-10 | 135k | 160 MB | Get |
| Tuscarawas County | 39157 | OH | 2024-05 | 60.5k | 50.4 MB | Get |
| Tuscarawas County | 39157 | OH | 2022-07 | 60.3k | 65.7 MB | Get |
| Vinton County | 39163 | OH | 2022-04 | 13.1k | 14.7 MB | Get |
| Vinton County | 39163 | OH | 2017-04 | 12.7k | 9.6 MB | Get |
| Vinton County | 39163 | OH | 2017-04 | 12.7k | 8.9 MB | Get |
| Warren County | 39165 | OH | 2022-04 | 105k | 243 MB | Get |
| Washington County | 39167 | OH | 2022-04 | 61.8k | 79.1 MB | Get |
| Wayne County | 39169 | OH | 2022-10 | 57.1k | 37.6 MB | Get |
| Wayne County | 39169 | OH | 2017-10 | 56.6k | 74.3 MB | Get |
| Wayne County | 39169 | OH | 2016-11 | 56.5k | 42.1 MB | Get |
| Williams County | 39171 | OH | 2024-04 | 26.3k | 23.2 MB | Get |
| Williams County | 39171 | OH | 2022-10 | 26.1k | 22.8 MB | Get |
| Wood County | 39173 | OH | 2024-04 | 73.4k | 69.5 MB | Get |
| Wood County | 39173 | OH | 2021-06 | 72.6k | 96.3 MB | Get |
| Wyandot County | 39175 | OH | 2022-10 | 20.2k | 15.0 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.