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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pecos County | 48371 | TX | 2018-06 | 14.2k | 10.6 MB | Get |
| Pecos County | 48371 | TX | 2018-04 | 14.2k | 9.6 MB | Get |
| Pecos County | 48371 | TX | 2017-06 | 20.5k | 11.8 MB | Get |
| Polk County | 48373 | TX | 2021-09 | 59.5k | 50.0 MB | Get |
| Polk County | 48373 | TX | 2018-06 | 61.1k | 47.5 MB | Get |
| Potter County | 48375 | TX | 2020-09 | 113k | 90.3 MB | Get |
| Rains County | 48379 | TX | 2023-01 | 12.0k | 11.1 MB | Get |
| Reagan County | 48383 | TX | 2023-01 | 4.7k | 4.8 MB | Get |
| Reagan County | 48383 | TX | 2020-04 | 4.6k | 2.3 MB | Get |
| Reagan County | 48383 | TX | 2019-03 | 4.9k | 3.4 MB | Get |
| Reagan County | 48383 | TX | 2018-07 | 4.9k | 3.4 MB | Get |
| Red River County | 48387 | TX | 2018-02 | 12.5k | 11.4 MB | Get |
| Reeves County | 48389 | TX | 2023-03 | 19.4k | 17.4 MB | Get |
| Reeves County | 48389 | TX | 2021-09 | 16.1k | 15.9 MB | Get |
| Reeves County | 48389 | TX | 2020-04 | 15.7k | 11.9 MB | Get |
| Reeves County | 48389 | TX | 2019-03 | 13.5k | 12.0 MB | Get |
| Reeves County | 48389 | TX | 2018-04 | 13.3k | 11.9 MB | Get |
| Reeves County | 48389 | TX | 2016-07 | 25.4k | 19.9 MB | Get |
| Refugio County | 48391 | TX | 2019-06 | 11.5k | 11.1 MB | Get |
| Refugio County | 48391 | TX | 2018-03 | 11.5k | 9.5 MB | Get |
| Roberts County | 48393 | TX | 2023-06 | 2.6k | 4.8 MB | Get |
| Roberts County | 48393 | TX | 2021-08 | 2.6k | 4.7 MB | Get |
| Robertson County | 48395 | TX | 2022-05 | 16.7k | 15.8 MB | Get |
| Robertson County | 48395 | TX | 2018-06 | 16.6k | 14.5 MB | Get |
| Robertson County | 48395 | TX | 2017-12 | 16.6k | 12.3 MB | Get |
| Robertson County | 48395 | TX | 2017-12 | 16.6k | 9.7 MB | Get |
| Rockwall County | 48397 | TX | 2019-03 | 40.2k | 52.8 MB | Get |
| Runnels County | 48399 | TX | 2018-09 | 11.6k | 7.1 MB | Get |
| Runnels County | 48399 | TX | 2017-09 | 11.6k | 7.1 MB | Get |
| Runnels County | 48399 | TX | 2016-06 | 11.6k | 6.7 MB | Get |
| Runnels County | 48399 | TX | 2016-06 | 11.6k | 7.7 MB | Get |
| Rusk County | 48401 | TX | 2022-11 | 37.6k | 28.1 MB | Get |
| Rusk County | 48401 | TX | 2018-01 | 37.2k | 32.6 MB | Get |
| Sabine County | 48403 | TX | 2024-06 | 22.8k | 30.3 MB | Get |
| Sabine County | 48403 | TX | 2023-03 | 22.6k | 24.0 MB | Get |
| Sabine County | 48403 | TX | 2018-06 | 22.7k | 16.1 MB | Get |
| San Jacinto County | 48407 | TX | 2018-02 | 40.5k | 38.7 MB | Get |
| San Patricio County | 48409 | TX | 2019-07 | 47.4k | 31.6 MB | Get |
| San Patricio County | 48409 | TX | 2018-03 | 48.2k | 30.6 MB | Get |
| Schleicher County | 48413 | TX | 2019-03 | 6.2k | 5.7 MB | Get |
| Schleicher County | 48413 | TX | 2018-04 | 6.2k | 5.8 MB | Get |
| Schleicher County | 48413 | TX | 2017-05 | 6.2k | 6.3 MB | Get |
| Scurry County | 48415 | TX | 2019-04 | 13.4k | 13.0 MB | Get |
| Scurry County | 48415 | TX | 2017-10 | 13.1k | 13.4 MB | Get |
| Shackelford County | 48417 | TX | 2017-09 | 5.3k | 14.9 MB | Get |
| Shelby County | 48419 | TX | 2023-06 | 20.1k | 19.8 MB | Get |
| Shelby County | 48419 | TX | 2018-06 | 20.3k | 20.2 MB | Get |
| Shelby County | 48419 | TX | 2017-08 | 20.3k | 19.6 MB | Get |
| Starr County | 48427 | TX | 2018-04 | 26.9k | 18.9 MB | Get |
| Starr County | 48427 | TX | 2016-01 | 22.4k | 13.1 MB | Get |
| Sterling County | 48431 | TX | 2019-03 | 2.2k | 2.5 MB | Get |
| Sterling County | 48431 | TX | 2018-05 | 2.2k | 2.8 MB | Get |
| Stonewall County | 48433 | TX | 2020-10 | 5.4k | 5.2 MB | Get |
| Stonewall County | 48433 | TX | 2019-06 | 5.4k | 4.8 MB | Get |
| Sutton County | 48435 | TX | 2024-04 | 5.9k | 6.2 MB | Get |
| Sutton County | 48435 | TX | 2017-07 | 5.6k | 7.9 MB | Get |
| Sutton County | 48435 | TX | 2017-07 | 5.6k | 7.9 MB | Get |
| Taylor County | 48441 | TX | 2024-05 | 69.9k | 76.9 MB | Get |
| Taylor County | 48441 | TX | 2023-01 | 69.4k | 73.4 MB | Get |
| Taylor County | 48441 | TX | 2018-08 | 78.8k | 162 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.