Field dictionary

GEOID13001

Columns in Appling County

Field	Type	Filled	Distinct	Example values
key	OFTString	99%	12.4k	0056 013, 0056 014, 0071 020
parcel_id	OFTString	98%	12.3k	0056 013, 0056 014, 0071 020
pid	OFTString	98%	12.3k	0056 013, 0056 014, 0071 020
map_no	OFTString	98%	12.3k	0056 013, 0056 014, 0071 020
owner	OFTString	98%	9.6k	KREIDER DAIRY LLC, TURNER RONNIE F, WILLIAMS R VICTOR
mail_addr1	OFTString	98%	8.1k	1311 DAIRY FARM RD, 54 RONNIE TURNER CIR, 3420 RED OAK RD
mail_addr3	OFTString	98%	1.3k	METTER, GA 30439, BAXLEY, GA 31513, BAXLEY, GA 31513-3242
situs	OFTString	92%	8.4k	203 GA HWY, 203 GA HWY, HWY 203
legal	OFTString	62%	1.0k	45 46, 45, 2
use_code	OFTString	98%	1	Class, Class, Class
acres	OFTString	98%	3.3k	241.3, 134.51, 193
land_val	OFTString	98%	7.9k	126,686, 87,177, 111,665
tax_dist	OFTString	98%	4	County (District 01), County (District 01), County (District 01)
nbhd	OFTString	3%	10	Commercial-Warehouse/Flex Buildings (COM010), Commercial-Warehouse/Flex Buildings (COM010), Commercial-Retail (COM007)
homesteadx	OFTString	98%	6	No (S0), No (S0), No (S0)
class	OFTString	98%	32	P5-Preferential, A5-Agricultural, P5-Preferential
lndval	OFTString	98%	7.9k	126,686, 87,177, 111,665
bldval	OFTString	98%	3.6k	45,000, 0, 0
saledate	OFTString	86%	5.7k	12/29/2022, 2/26/1993, 12/6/2021
saleprice	OFTString	85%	9.9k	652 58, 266 255, 616 195
salebook	OFTString	57%	5.2k	7 87, 13 50, 20 446
salepage	OFTString	86%	1.2k	850,000, 52,000, 0
heat	OFTString	38%	13	Suspended Heaters, No Heat, Central Heat/AC
yearbuilt	OFTString	53%	72	1990, 1900, 2018
basementsq	OFTString	39%	7	0, 0, 0
style	OFTString	39%	6	1 Family (Detached), 1 Family (Detached), 1 Family (Detached)
condition	OFTString	38%	5	Average, Average, Average

Why this differs from the next county over

There is no national parcel schema. Every assessor's office built its own, usually decades ago, usually inside whatever CAMA system it bought at the time. One county's owner column is OWNER_NAME, the next one's is own1, and a third splits it across four fields. Shapefile's ten-character DBF limit truncated a generation of them into things like TOTLNDVAL.

Nothing here is renamed or remapped. The columns above are exactly what is in the file, because a normalisation layer that quietly guesses wrong is worse than no normalisation at all — and every guess it makes is one you cannot audit.

The Filled column is the share of rows with a real value. Placeholder text such as n/a counts as empty; a column that is 100% present but 90% placeholder is a column that will disappoint you, and the profiler treats it accordingly.