10 attribute fields, profiled from the November 2020 vintage.
Columns in Daviess County
| Field | Type | Filled | Distinct | Example values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pid | OFTString | 22.9k | 10015, 1, 10025 | |
| parcel_id | OFTString | 21.6k | 14-01-30-101-014.000-009, 14-08-02-301-002.000-001, 14-01-31-100-003.001-008 | |
| owner | OFTString | 14.6k | Indiana Rail Road Company (The), Kramer, Mark H. Teresa R. (HW), Graber, Joe Jr. Darlene (HW) | |
| mailaddr | OFTString | 11.8k | 500 Water St C910 Jacksonville,FL 32202, 6110 W Corral Way Dr Bloomington,IN 47403, 9638 E 1200 N Odon,IN 47562-5454 | |
| situs | OFTString | 16.9k | Honey Haven Drive ODON,IN 47562, 12532 Upper South Point Cir LOOGOOTEE,IN 47553, 8577 E 1200 N ODON,IN 47562 | |
| legal | OFTString | 21.4k | 015-01410-01 PT NE SE 30-05-05 1.60 ACRES 500 S WEST ST ODON, PT NE NE 30-05-05 2.00 ACRES 600 W MAIN ST ODON, Pt SW NE 29-5-5 .51 Ac SMILEY ST, S OF E RACE ST ODON | |
| st_pid | OFTString | 21.6k | 14-01-30-101-014.000-009, 14-08-02-301-002.000-001, 14-01-31-100-003.001-008 | |
| map_no | OFTString | 1 | __-___.___-__, __-___.___-__ | |
| acreage | OFTString | 6.4k | 6.8270, 0.4800, 0.5000 | |
| ppid | OFTString | 22.9k | 10015, 1, 10025 |
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.