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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hall County | 48191 | TX | 2023-05 | 6.3k | 8.1 MB | Get |
| Hamilton County | 48193 | TX | 2019-02 | 11.6k | 11.9 MB | Get |
| Hamilton County | 48193 | TX | 2017-03 | 11.9k | 11.3 MB | Get |
| Hansford County | 48195 | TX | 2021-11 | 4.8k | 5.1 MB | Get |
| Hardin County | 48199 | TX | 2022-05 | 40.4k | 36.1 MB | Get |
| Hardin County | 48199 | TX | 2021-05 | 40.2k | 35.1 MB | Get |
| Hardin County | 48199 | TX | 2018-09 | 39.4k | 26.7 MB | Get |
| Harris County | 48201 | TX | 2016-08 | 1.4M | 1.3 GB | Get |
| Harrison County | 48203 | TX | 2024-04 | 50.8k | 43.2 MB | Get |
| Harrison County | 48203 | TX | 2023-02 | 50.6k | 54.7 MB | Get |
| Harrison County | 48203 | TX | 2022-02 | 50.3k | 47.7 MB | Get |
| Harrison County | 48203 | TX | 2018-08 | 50.3k | 33.6 MB | Get |
| Harrison County | 48203 | TX | 2017-11 | 48.0k | 23.9 MB | Get |
| Hartley County | 48205 | TX | 2021-11 | 5.5k | 6.2 MB | Get |
| Haskell County | 48207 | TX | 2019-06 | 9.6k | 10.0 MB | Get |
| Hays County | 48209 | TX | 2018-09 | 89.1k | 78.6 MB | Get |
| Hays County | 48209 | TX | 2017-07 | 81.8k | 74.0 MB | Get |
| Henderson County | 48213 | TX | 2019-12 | 105k | 72.0 MB | Get |
| Henderson County | 48213 | TX | 2018-09 | 105k | 66.8 MB | Get |
| Hidalgo County | 48215 | TX | 2024-04 | 322k | 264 MB | Get |
| Hidalgo County | 48215 | TX | 2017-10 | 292k | 252 MB | Get |
| Hidalgo County | 48215 | TX | 2016-07 | 289k | 240 MB | Get |
| Hill County | 48217 | TX | 2019-06 | 38.0k | 37.7 MB | Get |
| Hill County | 48217 | TX | 2018-07 | 38.2k | 29.7 MB | Get |
| Hill County | 48217 | TX | 2018-07 | 38.2k | 30.1 MB | Get |
| Hockley County | 48219 | TX | 2019-03 | 14.2k | 11.2 MB | Get |
| Hockley County | 48219 | TX | 2017-03 | 14.2k | 10.5 MB | Get |
| Hood County | 48221 | TX | 2018-06 | 51.0k | 32.5 MB | Get |
| Hopkins County | 48223 | TX | 2018-10 | 25.6k | 36.7 MB | Get |
| Houston County | 48225 | TX | 2022-08 | 25.9k | 22.3 MB | Get |
| Houston County | 48225 | TX | 2018-02 | 25.7k | 23.9 MB | Get |
| Howard County | 48227 | TX | 2024-03 | 20.6k | 17.9 MB | Get |
| Howard County | 48227 | TX | 2023-12 | 20.6k | 17.9 MB | Get |
| Howard County | 48227 | TX | 2023-03 | 20.6k | 18.5 MB | Get |
| Howard County | 48227 | TX | 2019-03 | 20.5k | 15.7 MB | Get |
| Howard County | 48227 | TX | 2018-07 | 20.5k | 15.6 MB | Get |
| Howard County | 48227 | TX | 2017-10 | 20.5k | 16.2 MB | Get |
| Hudspeth County | 48229 | TX | 2023-01 | 23.4k | 17.8 MB | Get |
| Hudspeth County | 48229 | TX | 2020-03 | 14.8k | 10.3 MB | Get |
| Hudspeth County | 48229 | TX | 2019-12 | 13.6k | 9.3 MB | Get |
| Hunt County | 48231 | TX | 2017-02 | 60.9k | 55.4 MB | Get |
| Hutchinson County | 48233 | TX | 2021-08 | 18.6k | 19.9 MB | Get |
| Irion County | 48235 | TX | 2019-03 | 4.2k | 5.2 MB | Get |
| Jack County | 48237 | TX | 2019-06 | 11.1k | 8.3 MB | Get |
| Jack County | 48237 | TX | 2017-10 | 11.1k | 8.3 MB | Get |
| Jackson County | 48239 | TX | 2019-06 | 22.0k | 12.7 MB | Get |
| Jackson County | 48239 | TX | 2017-12 | 31.8k | 12.8 MB | Get |
| Jackson County | 48239 | TX | 2016-10 | 31.8k | 13.1 MB | Get |
| Jasper County | 48241 | TX | 2021-10 | 36.9k | 32.3 MB | Get |
| Jasper County | 48241 | TX | 2020-01 | 34.8k | 29.8 MB | Get |
| Jasper County | 48241 | TX | 2019-08 | 34.3k | 35.6 MB | Get |
| Jasper County | 48241 | TX | 2018-10 | 32.7k | 33.3 MB | Get |
| Jeff Davis County | 48243 | TX | 2019-03 | 6.6k | 5.9 MB | Get |
| Jefferson County | 48245 | TX | 2023-11 | 122k | 130 MB | Get |
| Jefferson County | 48245 | TX | 2022-06 | 122k | 130 MB | Get |
| Jefferson County | 48245 | TX | 2020-12 | 121k | 137 MB | Get |
| Jefferson County | 48245 | TX | 2018-09 | 122k | 130 MB | Get |
| Jim Wells County | 48249 | TX | 2018-09 | 27.5k | 18.1 MB | Get |
| Jim Wells County | 48249 | TX | 2017-12 | 26.7k | 16.2 MB | Get |
| Johnson County | 48251 | TX | 2024-04 | 98.3k | 71.3 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.