Field dictionary

GEOID13255

Columns in Spalding County

Field	Type	Filled	Distinct	Example values
key	OFTString	100%	33.2k	285 01031, 285 01009, 285 01012
parcel_id	OFTString	99%	32.9k	285 01031, 285 01009, 285 01012
pid	OFTString	99%	32.9k	285 01031, 285 01009, 285 01012
map_no	OFTString	99%	32.9k	285 01031, 285 01009, 285 01012
owner	OFTString	99%	23.6k	LEPPERT ZACHARY LAWRENCE, MIDKIFF J HOWARD, BEARDEN JOSEPH GENE
mail_addr1	OFTString	99%	23.0k	DONNELLY MICHAEL THOMAS 1955 HOLLONVILLE RD, MULLIS LAURA SUSAN 1966 HOLLONVILLE RD, 307 BELINDA AVE
mail_addr3	OFTString	99%	1.1k	BROOKS, GA 30205, BROOKS, GA 30205, GRAMERCY, LA 70052
situs	OFTString	99%	31.6k	1955 HOLLONVILLE RD, 1966 HOLLONVILLE RD, 1939 HOLLONVILLE RD
legal	OFTString	99%	28.7k	HOLLONVILLE RD LT A-1, 6AC HOLLONVILLE RD PB 13/333, TR A HOLLONVILLE RD
use_code	OFTString	99%	1	Class, Class, Class
acres	OFTString	99%	2.4k	4.43, 6, 4
land_val	OFTString	98%	8.3k	73,095, 81,000, 60,000
tax_dist	OFTString	99%	6	SPALDING COUNTY (District 03), SPALDING COUNTY (District 03), SPALDING COUNTY (District 03)
homesteadx	OFTString	99%	32	No (S0), Yes (LM8Z), No (S0)
heat	OFTString	69%	12	Central AC (Heat/Cool), Central AC (Heat/Cool), Central AC (Heat/Cool)
basementsq	OFTString	69%	1.6k	0, 0, 1326 - 50% Finished
style	OFTString	69%	18	One Family, One Family, One Family
class	OFTString	99%	33	R4-Residential, A4-Agricultural, A3-Agricultural
lndval	OFTString	98%	8.3k	73,095, 81,000, 60,000
bldval	OFTString	98%	24.1k	85,949, 114,237, 0
saledate	OFTString	98%	8.7k	8/15/2018, 2/12/2020, 3/1/2022
saleprice	OFTString	97%	28.0k	4320 219, 4527 141, 4926 168
salepage	OFTString	98%	4.4k	173,000, 0, 0
condition	OFTString	68%	5	Average, Average, Average
salebook	OFTString	71%	8.4k	13 333, 26 688, 27 172
yearbuilt	OFTString	55%	95	1997, 1995, 1998

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.