10 attribute fields, profiled from the May 2022 vintage.
Columns in Whitley County
| Field | Type | Filled | Distinct | Example values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| parcel_id | OFTString | 20.2k | 92-08-31-000-404.000-001, 92-08-31-000-411.000-001, 92-08-19-000-401.000-001 | |
| pid | OFTString | 20.2k | 92-08-31-000-404.000-001, 92-08-31-000-411.000-001, 92-08-19-000-401.000-001 | |
| altid | OFTString | 20.2k | 92-08-31-000-404.000-001, 92-08-31-000-411.000-001, 92-08-19-000-401.000-001 | |
| owner | OFTString | 14.6k | Shock, Kenneth A, Simmers, Christopher D Jennifer K, Rowland, Trenton A | |
| mail_addr | OFTString | 13.2k | 4590 E 1300 N North Manchester, IN 46962, 9989 W 1000 S-92 North Manchester, IN 46962, 8986 W 900 S South Whitley, IN 46787 | |
| situs | OFTString | 15.5k | W 1000 S-92 North Manchester, 9989 W 1000 S-92 North Manchester, 8160 S 950 W South Whitley | |
| use_code | OFTString | 101 | AGRICULTURAL - OTHER AGRICULTURAL USE, AGRICULTURAL - CASH GRAIN/GENERAL FARM, AGRICULTURAL - CASH GRAIN/GENERAL FARM | |
| acres | OFTString | 6.7k | 15.925, 8.535, 135.76 | |
| legal | OFTString | 20.1k | NW PT NW4 EX 8.535A S31 T30 R8 15.925A, Pt NW4 S31 T30 R8 8.535A, NE4 NE4 S19 T30 R8 40A | |
| key | OFTString | 20.2k | 92-08-31-000-404.000-001, 92-08-31-000-411.000-001, 92-08-19-000-401.000-001 |
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.