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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McLennan County | 48309 | TX | 2018-05 | 134k | 138 MB | Get |
| McMullen County | 48311 | TX | 2021-03 | 4.1k | 5.3 MB | Get |
| McMullen County | 48311 | TX | 2019-11 | 4.1k | 5.0 MB | Get |
| McMullen County | 48311 | TX | 2018-07 | 4.0k | 4.5 MB | Get |
| Medina County | 48325 | TX | 2018-05 | 37.9k | 27.7 MB | Get |
| Medina County | 48325 | TX | 2017-08 | 37.5k | 29.2 MB | Get |
| Menard County | 48327 | TX | 2017-05 | 5.5k | 4.9 MB | Get |
| Midland County | 48329 | TX | 2023-03 | 71.5k | 52.2 MB | Get |
| Midland County | 48329 | TX | 2021-06 | 69.7k | 79.9 MB | Get |
| Midland County | 48329 | TX | 2019-03 | 64.4k | 37.9 MB | Get |
| Midland County | 48329 | TX | 2018-04 | 63.1k | 44.4 MB | Get |
| Midland County | 48329 | TX | 2017-03 | 63.2k | 62.6 MB | Get |
| Milam County | 48331 | TX | 2018-04 | 19.4k | 26.7 MB | Get |
| Mills County | 48333 | TX | 2018-06 | 8.4k | 9.2 MB | Get |
| Mitchell County | 48335 | TX | 2019-03 | 7.7k | 6.3 MB | Get |
| Mitchell County | 48335 | TX | 2018-08 | 7.8k | 6.3 MB | Get |
| Montague County | 48337 | TX | 2020-11 | 22.6k | 17.3 MB | Get |
| Montague County | 48337 | TX | 2019-08 | 22.7k | 17.6 MB | Get |
| Montague County | 48337 | TX | 2017-12 | 32.6k | 15.0 MB | Get |
| Montague County | 48337 | TX | 2016-06 | 32.6k | 15.1 MB | Get |
| Montgomery County | 48339 | TX | 2022-03 | 285k | 338 MB | Get |
| Montgomery County | 48339 | TX | 2018-05 | 254k | 295 MB | Get |
| Moore County | 48341 | TX | 2021-11 | 11.3k | 10.6 MB | Get |
| Morris County | 48343 | TX | 2020-09 | 11.7k | 15.6 MB | Get |
| Nacogdoches County | 48347 | TX | 2023-01 | 44.7k | 47.4 MB | Get |
| Nacogdoches County | 48347 | TX | 2020-09 | 44.2k | 38.8 MB | Get |
| Navarro County | 48349 | TX | 2019-10 | 41.3k | 41.9 MB | Get |
| Navarro County | 48349 | TX | 2018-09 | 40.9k | 40.0 MB | Get |
| Newton County | 48351 | TX | 2024-06 | 21.7k | 27.1 MB | Get |
| Newton County | 48351 | TX | 2022-08 | 21.0k | 24.8 MB | Get |
| Newton County | 48351 | TX | 2020-01 | 20.6k | 23.6 MB | Get |
| Newton County | 48351 | TX | 2019-01 | 20.5k | 23.0 MB | Get |
| Newton County | 48351 | TX | 2018-06 | 20.5k | 23.0 MB | Get |
| Newton County | 48351 | TX | 2017-11 | 22.5k | 24.9 MB | Get |
| Nolan County | 48353 | TX | 2020-08 | 12.9k | 11.2 MB | Get |
| Nolan County | 48353 | TX | 2019-03 | 12.8k | 10.1 MB | Get |
| Nolan County | 48353 | TX | 2018-08 | 12.9k | 10.1 MB | Get |
| Nolan County | 48353 | TX | 2017-08 | 12.7k | 10.7 MB | Get |
| Nueces County | 48355 | TX | 2019-06 | 146k | 144 MB | Get |
| Nueces County | 48355 | TX | 2018-07 | 142k | 207 MB | Get |
| Oldham County | 48359 | TX | 2022-10 | 4.0k | 4.8 MB | Get |
| Oldham County | 48359 | TX | 2021-08 | 4.0k | 4.7 MB | Get |
| Orange County | 48361 | TX | 2024-02 | 46.8k | 43.6 MB | Get |
| Orange County | 48361 | TX | 2022-05 | 46.5k | 43.5 MB | Get |
| Orange County | 48361 | TX | 2022-02 | 46.5k | 43.5 MB | Get |
| Orange County | 48361 | TX | 2020-12 | 46.2k | 43.2 MB | Get |
| Orange County | 48361 | TX | 2019-01 | 45.8k | 42.8 MB | Get |
| Orange County | 48361 | TX | 2017-12 | 45.8k | 43.5 MB | Get |
| Palo Pinto County | 48363 | TX | 2017-07 | 32.9k | 18.7 MB | Get |
| Panola County | 48365 | TX | 2023-03 | 18.6k | 15.1 MB | Get |
| Panola County | 48365 | TX | 2022-05 | 18.6k | 15.0 MB | Get |
| Panola County | 48365 | TX | 2018-08 | 18.3k | 16.7 MB | Get |
| Panola County | 48365 | TX | 2018-03 | 20.6k | 13.9 MB | Get |
| Panola County | 48365 | TX | 2017-08 | 20.6k | 13.9 MB | Get |
| Parker County | 48367 | TX | 2022-06 | 79.9k | 82.8 MB | Get |
| Parker County | 48367 | TX | 2019-06 | 67.0k | 45.5 MB | Get |
| Parker County | 48367 | TX | 2018-02 | 67.0k | 45.4 MB | Get |
| Pecos County | 48371 | TX | 2023-02 | 15.1k | 12.1 MB | Get |
| Pecos County | 48371 | TX | 2020-04 | 14.9k | 9.0 MB | Get |
| Pecos County | 48371 | TX | 2019-02 | 14.3k | 10.6 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.