Free Parcel Data

Illinois Clark County

Field dictionary

GEOID17023
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10 attribute fields, profiled from the December 2023 vintage.

Columns in Clark County

Field Type Filled Distinct Example values
parcel_id OFTString 99% 14.4k 07163100300002, 07163100300004, 07163100300003
pid OFTString 99% 14.4k 07163100300002, 07163100300004, 07163100300003
altid OFTString 0%
owner OFTString 99% 8.3k MEEKS MARILYN, SHANKS ROBERT ELLIS DARLENE, S HUISINGA FAMILY HOLDINGS, LLC
mail_addr OFTString 93% 7.5k 177 CO RD 2300E GREENUP IL 62428, 315 E 200TH RD YALE IL 62481, CRAMER PHILLIP C LORI A 20992 N 2175TH ST YALE IL 62481
situs OFTString 46% 6.6k 315 E 200TH RD CASEY IL 62420, 1755 E 200TH RD CASEY IL 62420, 2269 E 200TH RD CASEY IL 62420
use_code OFTString 99% 7 Ag Land, Residential, Ag Land
acres OFTString 98% 6.8k 38.2655, 1.0, 116.2486
legal OFTString 99% 13.2k SW SW, 1H 1G 1X 1 AC IN SW COR E 1/2 SW, E 1/2 SW EX 1 AC IN SW COR SW SE FINNEY
key OFTString 99% 14.4k 07163100300002, 07163100300004, 07163100300003

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.