20 attribute fields, profiled from the October 2022 vintage.
Columns in Muscogee County
| Field | Type | Filled | Distinct | Example values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| parcel_id | OFTString | 50.0k | 001 001 001, 001 001 002, 002 001 001 | |
| pid | OFTString | 50.0k | 001 001 001, 001 001 002, 002 001 001 | |
| owner | OFTString | 50.0k | COLUMBUS GEORGIA, COLUMBUS BUILDING AUTH(LESSOR), COLUMBUS GEORGIA | |
| owner2 | OFTString | 12.5k | COLUMBUS GEORGIA (LESSEE), L L L P, BISHOP DORRIS D | |
| mail1 | OFTString | 48.3k | PO BOX 1340, 100 10TH ST, PO BOX 1340 | |
| mail2 | OFTString | 753 | 3, 459, 500 | |
| mail3 | OFTString | 1.5k | COLUMBUS, COLUMBUS, COLUMBUS | |
| mail4 | OFTString | 58 | GA, GA, GA | |
| mail5 | OFTString | 2.4k | 31902, 31901, 31993 | |
| situs1 | OFTString | 50.0k | 400 4TH ST, 200 4TH ST, 601 FRONT AVE | |
| situs2 | OFTString | 85 | A B, A B, A B | |
| situs3 | OFTString | — | ||
| situs4 | OFTString | — | ||
| zoning | OFTString | 34 | E1 - Exempt - Public Property, E1 - Exempt - Public Property, E1 - Exempt - Public Property | |
| acres | OFTString | 3.6k | 17.869, 6.451, 1.82 | |
| class | OFTString | — | ||
| objectid | OFTInteger | 50.0k | 45296, 51131, 12894 | |
| taxpin | OFTString | 50.0k | 001 001 001, 001 001 002, 002 001 001 | |
| starea() | OFTReal | 50.0k | 961918.55249, 291080.855957, 84460.235962 | |
| stlength() | OFTReal | 50.0k | 4678.367472, 3651.781734, 1222.220735 |
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.