10 attribute fields, profiled from the October 2022 vintage.
Columns in Cass County
| Field | Type | Filled | Distinct | Example values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| parcel_id | OFTString | 12.0k | 06-027-008-00, 06-027-009-00, 06-027-010-00 | |
| pid | OFTString | 12.0k | 06-027-008-00, 06-027-009-00, 06-027-010-00 | |
| altid | OFTString | — | ||
| owner | OFTString | 6.2k | BLUM 2021 IRREVOCABLE TRUST, CLARKE MARY J LIFE ESTATE, MOORE MARILYN TRUST #2010 | |
| mail_addr | OFTString | 6.7k | 3588 ARENZVILLE RD BEARDSTOWN IL 62618, SPEARS KARLA M 2155 US HWY 67 ARENZVILLE IL 62611, 1233 US HWY 67 ARENZVILLE IL 62611 | |
| situs | OFTString | 6.1k | RURAL PROPERTY ARENZVILLE IL 62611, 2155 US HWY 67 ARENZVILLE IL 62611, RURAL PROPERTY ARENZVILLE IL 62611 | |
| use_code | OFTString | 8 | 0021, 0011, 0011 | |
| acres | OFTString | 2.9k | 48.5, 40.71, 86.85 | |
| legal | OFTString | 12.0k | 1330100001 S30 T17 R12 NW NW, 1330100002 S30 T17 R12 NE NW, 1330100003 S30 T17 R12 S 1/2 NW EXC 2.41 AC IN NW 1/4 | |
| key | OFTString | 12.0k | 06-027-008-00, 06-027-009-00, 06-027-010-00 |
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.