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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bowie County | 48037 | TX | 2020-08 | 53.3k | 46.8 MB | Get |
| Bowie County | 48037 | TX | 2018-09 | 53.6k | 41.2 MB | Get |
| Brazos County | 48041 | TX | 2022-05 | 70.9k | 63.0 MB | Get |
| Brazos County | 48041 | TX | 2018-05 | 65.4k | 52.1 MB | Get |
| Brooks County | 48047 | TX | 2017-01 | 5.4k | 4.8 MB | Get |
| Brown County | 48049 | TX | 2018-05 | 32.4k | 36.7 MB | Get |
| Burleson County | 48051 | TX | 2023-01 | 26.3k | 23.2 MB | Get |
| Burleson County | 48051 | TX | 2019-06 | 26.1k | 20.1 MB | Get |
| Burleson County | 48051 | TX | 2018-05 | 26.4k | 19.8 MB | Get |
| Burleson County | 48051 | TX | 2017-12 | 26.2k | 20.7 MB | Get |
| Burleson County | 48051 | TX | 2016-06 | 80.9k | 52.4 MB | Get |
| Burnet County | 48053 | TX | 2018-02 | 46.6k | 49.7 MB | Get |
| Burnet County | 48053 | TX | 2017-08 | 46.0k | 50.1 MB | Get |
| Caldwell County | 48055 | TX | 2017-07 | 20.7k | 19.4 MB | Get |
| Calhoun County | 48057 | TX | 2022-12 | 22.0k | 26.2 MB | Get |
| Calhoun County | 48057 | TX | 2021-02 | 22.0k | 26.0 MB | Get |
| Calhoun County | 48057 | TX | 2018-03 | 21.8k | 26.8 MB | Get |
| Cameron County | 48061 | TX | 2019-07 | 176k | 155 MB | Get |
| Cameron County | 48061 | TX | 2017-10 | 174k | 170 MB | Get |
| Cameron County | 48061 | TX | 2016-10 | 171k | 146 MB | Get |
| Carson County | 48065 | TX | 2020-09 | 6.8k | 6.7 MB | Get |
| Castro County | 48069 | TX | 2020-07 | 5.9k | 5.9 MB | Get |
| Chambers County | 48071 | TX | 2021-05 | 33.9k | 26.8 MB | Get |
| Chambers County | 48071 | TX | 2019-03 | 29.3k | 21.1 MB | Get |
| Chambers County | 48071 | TX | 2017-10 | 29.3k | 21.1 MB | Get |
| Chambers County | 48071 | TX | 2017-08 | 29.4k | 20.1 MB | Get |
| Chambers County | 48071 | TX | 2015-12 | 30.1k | 23.6 MB | Get |
| Cherokee County | 48073 | TX | 2022-07 | 45.7k | 31.9 MB | Get |
| Childress County | 48075 | TX | 2017-02 | 13.1k | 9.4 MB | Get |
| Clay County | 48077 | TX | 2022-11 | 13.5k | 20.1 MB | Get |
| Clay County | 48077 | TX | 2019-03 | 13.4k | 10.6 MB | Get |
| Clay County | 48077 | TX | 2017-10 | 16.9k | 12.5 MB | Get |
| Clay County | 48077 | TX | 2017-01 | 16.9k | 11.0 MB | Get |
| Cochran County | 48079 | TX | 2019-03 | 5.3k | 6.5 MB | Get |
| Cochran County | 48079 | TX | 2017-06 | 5.3k | 6.3 MB | Get |
| Coke County | 48081 | TX | 2019-03 | 7.9k | 7.6 MB | Get |
| Coke County | 48081 | TX | 2018-04 | 8.0k | 5.9 MB | Get |
| Collin County | 48085 | TX | 2019-12 | 336k | 448 MB | Get |
| Collin County | 48085 | TX | 2018-07 | 322k | 421 MB | Get |
| Collingsworth County | 48087 | TX | 2017-02 | 5.2k | 3.6 MB | Get |
| Colorado County | 48089 | TX | 2022-10 | 22.0k | 22.6 MB | Get |
| Colorado County | 48089 | TX | 2019-02 | 20.9k | 21.4 MB | Get |
| Colorado County | 48089 | TX | 2017-07 | 20.9k | 20.8 MB | Get |
| Comal County | 48091 | TX | 2022-11 | 96.5k | 113 MB | Get |
| Comal County | 48091 | TX | 2018-07 | 86.1k | 105 MB | Get |
| Comal County | 48091 | TX | 2018-03 | 86.1k | 105 MB | Get |
| Comanche County | 48093 | TX | 2018-05 | 16.5k | 16.3 MB | Get |
| Concho County | 48095 | TX | 2018-06 | 7.2k | 5.5 MB | Get |
| Cooke County | 48097 | TX | 2019-12 | 30.9k | 31.9 MB | Get |
| Cooke County | 48097 | TX | 2018-01 | 27.8k | 24.5 MB | Get |
| Cooke County | 48097 | TX | 2017-04 | 27.6k | 20.7 MB | Get |
| Coryell County | 48099 | TX | 2018-05 | 28.6k | 28.4 MB | Get |
| Crane County | 48103 | TX | 2023-02 | 7.9k | 7.6 MB | Get |
| Crane County | 48103 | TX | 2019-03 | 7.7k | 7.0 MB | Get |
| Crane County | 48103 | TX | 2018-07 | 7.7k | 7.1 MB | Get |
| Crane County | 48103 | TX | 2017-01 | 5.1k | 4.6 MB | Get |
| Crockett County | 48105 | TX | 2024-04 | 9.1k | 8.1 MB | Get |
| Crockett County | 48105 | TX | 2024-03 | 9.1k | 8.1 MB | Get |
| Crockett County | 48105 | TX | 2022-02 | 9.1k | 8.0 MB | Get |
| Culberson County | 48109 | TX | 2023-08 | 13.3k | 8.3 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.