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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terrell County | 48443 | TX | 2017-12 | 4.9k | 8.8 MB | Get |
| Terry County | 48445 | TX | 2020-08 | 9.0k | 7.5 MB | Get |
| Terry County | 48445 | TX | 2019-03 | 9.0k | 6.8 MB | Get |
| Throckmorton County | 48447 | TX | 2019-06 | 4.8k | 4.6 MB | Get |
| Throckmorton County | 48447 | TX | 2017-03 | 4.6k | 4.0 MB | Get |
| Titus County | 48449 | TX | 2023-09 | 20.0k | 25.4 MB | Get |
| Titus County | 48449 | TX | 2020-09 | 19.6k | 33.3 MB | Get |
| Travis County | 48453 | TX | 2022-01 | 366k | 450 MB | Get |
| Travis County | 48453 | TX | 2018-07 | 346k | 404 MB | Get |
| Trinity County | 48455 | TX | 2019-12 | 26.1k | 22.2 MB | Get |
| Trinity County | 48455 | TX | 2018-09 | 25.9k | 21.8 MB | Get |
| Tyler County | 48457 | TX | 2021-09 | 30.4k | 19.9 MB | Get |
| Tyler County | 48457 | TX | 2019-01 | 30.0k | 19.9 MB | Get |
| Upshur County | 48459 | TX | 2023-01 | 28.3k | 30.6 MB | Get |
| Upshur County | 48459 | TX | 2018-10 | 27.0k | 34.3 MB | Get |
| Upshur County | 48459 | TX | 2017-04 | 26.7k | 31.6 MB | Get |
| Upton County | 48461 | TX | 2023-03 | 8.5k | 5.8 MB | Get |
| Upton County | 48461 | TX | 2020-04 | 8.1k | 6.3 MB | Get |
| Upton County | 48461 | TX | 2019-03 | 8.4k | 7.5 MB | Get |
| Upton County | 48461 | TX | 2018-07 | 8.4k | 7.6 MB | Get |
| Upton County | 48461 | TX | 2017-05 | 8.5k | 7.6 MB | Get |
| Upton County | 48461 | TX | 2016-07 | 8.7k | 7.7 MB | Get |
| Uvalde County | 48463 | TX | 2018-06 | 21.0k | 22.2 MB | Get |
| Val Verde County | 48465 | TX | 2018-02 | 32.7k | 37.7 MB | Get |
| Val Verde County | 48465 | TX | 2017-02 | 33.0k | 37.8 MB | Get |
| Van Zandt County | 48467 | TX | 2024-05 | 43.9k | 49.8 MB | Get |
| Van Zandt County | 48467 | TX | 2024-05 | 43.9k | 49.8 MB | Get |
| Van Zandt County | 48467 | TX | 2023-03 | 44.5k | 40.7 MB | Get |
| Victoria County | 48469 | TX | 2022-12 | 44.5k | 56.6 MB | Get |
| Victoria County | 48469 | TX | 2019-03 | 43.5k | 53.4 MB | Get |
| Victoria County | 48469 | TX | 2018-01 | 44.6k | 44.3 MB | Get |
| Walker County | 48471 | TX | 2022-07 | 34.7k | 59.8 MB | Get |
| Walker County | 48471 | TX | 2019-02 | 32.1k | 59.8 MB | Get |
| Walker County | 48471 | TX | 2018-02 | 31.5k | 61.2 MB | Get |
| Waller County | 48473 | TX | 2019-06 | 36.6k | 29.0 MB | Get |
| Waller County | 48473 | TX | 2017-07 | 34.4k | 29.7 MB | Get |
| Waller County | 48473 | TX | 2017-04 | 34.4k | 29.9 MB | Get |
| Waller County | 48473 | TX | 2016-08 | 16.4k | 16.6 MB | Get |
| Ward County | 48475 | TX | 2024-04 | 15.0k | 12.7 MB | Get |
| Ward County | 48475 | TX | 2024-03 | 15.0k | 11.7 MB | Get |
| Ward County | 48475 | TX | 2023-03 | 14.9k | 10.7 MB | Get |
| Ward County | 48475 | TX | 2022-04 | 14.8k | 11.6 MB | Get |
| Ward County | 48475 | TX | 2021-09 | 14.8k | 11.7 MB | Get |
| Ward County | 48475 | TX | 2020-04 | 14.6k | 11.3 MB | Get |
| Ward County | 48475 | TX | 2020-02 | 14.5k | 13.0 MB | Get |
| Washington County | 48477 | TX | 2019-03 | 21.3k | 20.0 MB | Get |
| Washington County | 48477 | TX | 2017-08 | 20.2k | 19.5 MB | Get |
| Webb County | 48479 | TX | 2024-05 | 103k | 114 MB | Get |
| Webb County | 48479 | TX | 2023-06 | 100k | 99.7 MB | Get |
| Webb County | 48479 | TX | 2021-03 | 86.7k | 86.8 MB | Get |
| Wharton County | 48481 | TX | 2023-10 | 31.4k | 23.7 MB | Get |
| Wharton County | 48481 | TX | 2020-01 | 29.6k | 25.6 MB | Get |
| Wharton County | 48481 | TX | 2017-08 | 29.2k | 23.6 MB | Get |
| Wichita County | 48485 | TX | 2019-06 | 57.2k | 55.4 MB | Get |
| Willacy County | 48489 | TX | 2017-07 | 13.5k | 11.9 MB | Get |
| Williamson County | 48491 | TX | 2018-07 | 178k | 137 MB | Get |
| Wilson County | 48493 | TX | 2018-03 | 26.0k | 52.7 MB | Get |
| Winkler County | 48495 | TX | 2024-04 | 7.2k | 7.2 MB | Get |
| Winkler County | 48495 | TX | 2024-03 | 7.2k | 6.1 MB | Get |
| Winkler County | 48495 | TX | 2023-01 | 7.1k | 7.5 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.