60 attribute fields, profiled from the December 2022 vintage.
Columns in Cedar County
| Field | Type | Filled | Distinct | Example values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| objectid | OFTInteger | 19.9k | 349, 770, 1156 | |
| pid | OFTString | 19.8k | 0310-13-30-476-002-0, 0310-13-30-477-002-0, 0310-13-30-479-004-0 | |
| sol_pid | OFTString | 19.8k | 031013304760020, 031013304770020, 031013304790040 | |
| acresgis | OFTReal | 19.5k | 0.19283758, 0.38567456, 0.38567581 | |
| motherparc | OFTString | 273 | N\A, N\A, N\A | |
| changedate | OFTString | 256 | 2011-07-29, 2018-11-07, 2017-06-15 | |
| action | OFTString | 3 | Split, Split, Split | |
| date_added | OFTString | 327 | 2017-03-09, 2018-11-07, 2020-10-09 | |
| last_edite | OFTString | 3 | GISADMIN, GISADMIN, GISADMIN | |
| date_edite | OFTString | 27 | 2022-10-01, 2022-10-01, 2022-10-01 | |
| notes | OFTString | 53 | corrected parcel lines, corrected parcel lines, vacated alley | |
| gid | OFTInteger | 19.8k | 12200, 12202, 12213 | |
| parcelpin | OFTString | 19.8k | 0310-13-30-476-002-0, 0310-13-30-477-002-0, 0310-13-30-479-004-0 | |
| deedholder | OFTString | 8.9k | KOBER KRISTOPHER L, JAMIESON KEVIN S & TAMMY S, BRENDEL MARY LOU & HOAGLIN BRUCE | |
| contractto | OFTString | 152 | PELZER LAND LLC, PELZER LAND LLC, MCQUILLEN THOMAS R & DEBORAH A | |
| acres | OFTReal | 3.9k | 0.193, 0.386, 0.386 | |
| pdfnum | OFTInteger | 28 | 13, 13, 13 | |
| mailto_con | OFTString | 8.7k | KOBER KRISTOPHER L, JAMIESON KEVIN S & TAMMY S, BRENDEL MARY LOU & HOAGLIN BRUCE | |
| housenum | OFTString | 2.1k | 2281, 106, 313 | |
| address | OFTString | 628 | ADAMS ST, FRONT ST, BROADWAY ST | |
| city | OFTString | 55 | WEST BRANCH, WEST BRANCH, WEST BRANCH | |
| state | OFTString | 3 | IA, IA, IA | |
| zip | OFTString | 51 | 52358-0000, 52358-0000, 52358-0000 | |
| mailto_add | OFTString | 7.5k | 1883 GARFIELD AVE, 106 FRONT ST, 313 BROADWAY ST | |
| mailto_a_1 | OFTString | 512 | PO BOX 234, PO BOX 828, PO BOX 828 | |
| mailto_cit | OFTString | 409 | WEST BRANCH, WEST BRANCH, WEST BRANCH | |
| mailto_sta | OFTString | 42 | IA, IA, IA | |
| mailto_zip | OFTString | 3.7k | 52358-8513, 52358-8609, 52358-8624 | |
| descr | OFTString | 2 | Rural, Rural, Rural | |
| descr1 | OFTString | 6 | Residential, Residential, Residential | |
| name | OFTString | 123 | DOWNEY, DOWNEY, DOWNEY | |
| name1 | OFTString | 87 | 310, 310, 310 | |
| legal | OFTString | 12.6k | DOWNEY LOT 12 BLK 9, DOWNEY L2-3 BLK 10, DOWNEY L9-10 BLK 12 | |
| curr_land | OFTReal | 6.8k | 18320.0, 27000.0, 25310.0 | |
| curr_dwell | OFTReal | 6.4k | 86330.0, 67240.0, 98360.0 | |
| curr_impro | OFTReal | 1.8k | 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 | |
| curr_total | OFTReal | 11.8k | 104650.0, 94240.0, 123670.0 | |
| gisnum | OFTString | 19.8k | 031013304760020, 031013304770020, 031013304790040 | |
| runsoils | OFTInteger | 1 | 1, 1, 1 | |
| exemptionc | OFTInteger | 4 | 1, 1, 1 | |
| exemptacre | OFTReal | 767 | 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 | |
| exemptcsrs | OFTReal | 867 | 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 | |
| exemptdwel | OFTReal | 92 | 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 | |
| exemptimpr | OFTReal | 346 | 0.0, 16600.0, 1020.0 | |
| exemptothe | OFTReal | 1 | 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 | |
| exemptland | OFTReal | 845 | 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 | |
| exemptla_1 | OFTReal | 340 | 0.0, 20600.0, 0.0 | |
| exempttota | OFTReal | 1.3k | 0.0, 37200.0, 1020.0 | |
| permitdate | OFTString | 1 | 2022-01-01, 2022-01-01, 2022-01-01 | |
| permitcoun | OFTInteger | 5 | 1, 1, 2 | |
| permitda_1 | OFTString | 207 | 2021-10-15, 2021-01-06, 2021-09-28 | |
| permitnumb | OFTString | 92 | Multiple permits; check CAMA., 31-20, Multiple permits; check CAMA. | |
| permitamou | OFTReal | 54 | 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 | |
| permitreas | OFTInteger | 47 | 70, 4, 10 | |
| permitcomp | OFTInteger | 4 | 3, 3, 3 | |
| permitcomm | OFTString | 444 | CALL POSTCARD IS ILLEGIBLE. POSTCARD-KC, Multiple permits; check CAMA., NEW ROOF. POSTCARD-KC | |
| bptc | OFTString | 697 | 510, 510, 760 | |
| printbatch | OFTInteger | 2 | 429, 429, 429 | |
| starea() | OFTReal | 19.7k | 8400.0048828125, 16799.9841308594, 16800.0380859375 | |
| stlength() | OFTReal | 19.8k | 399.999951465145, 519.999525562439, 520.000213391326 |
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.