8 attribute fields, profiled from the May 2023 vintage.
Columns in Burke County
| Field | Type | Filled | Distinct | Example values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| parcel_id | OFTString | 17.1k | 002 003, 002 004A, 002 004B | |
| pid | OFTString | 17.1k | 002 003, 002 004A, 002 004B | |
| owner | OFTString | 11.5k | MERRITT J B, BOWLES JAMES WOODROW, BOWLES STEPHANIE L | |
| mail_addr | OFTString | 11.5k | EVERETTE B MERRITT P O BOX 51087 PIEDMONT, SC 29673, 4041 MULLIKIN ROAD EVANS, GA 30809, 3509 HIGHWAY 102 EAST GIBSON, GA 30810 | |
| situs | OFTString | 9.8k | 281 ROBERT JOHNSON ROAD, 1465 HWY 17 W, 1292 HWY 17 W | |
| use_code | OFTString | 8 | Consv Use, Consv Use, Consv Use | |
| acres | OFTString | 3.6k | 167, 59.21, 59.21 | |
| key | OFTString | 17.1k | 002 003, 002 004A, 002 004B |
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.