16 attribute fields, profiled from the February 2016 vintage.
Columns in Cerro Gordo County
| Field | Type | Filled | Distinct | Example values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OBJECTID | OFTInteger64 | 33.2k | 1, 6, 7 | |
| complete_p | OFTString | 32.4k | 133231400100, 133231600200, 133231700400 | |
| situs | OFTString | 19.9k | 203 DELAWARE ST, 303 DELAWARE ST, 430 3RD ST | |
| site_commu | OFTString | 18 | MESERVEY, MESERVEY, MESERVEY | |
| site_zip_c | OFTString | 20 | 50457, 50457, 50457 | |
| legal_desc | OFTString | 32.3k | L 3 & W 9.5' L 2 BLK 11 MESERVEY, E 76' L'S 7 & 8 BLK 19 MESERVEY, L'S 7-8 EXC E 76' BLK 19 MESERVEY | |
| deed_name | OFTString | 17.4k | MAX YIELD LLC, BARKER, DONNA L, ERSLAND, MICHAEL L | |
| deed_name2 | OFTString | 8.7k | FISCHER, DOREEN A, SCHIPPER, STEVEN, DIRKS, JUDITH A | |
| deed_addre | OFTString | 15.4k | 12 1ST AVE SE, 3051 130TH ST, 430 3RD ST | |
| deed_add_1 | OFTString | 266 | STE 1, APT 210, APT 210 | |
| deed_po_bo | OFTString | 613 | PO BOX 49, PO BOX 194, PO BOX 194 | |
| deed_commu | OFTString | 674 | WEST BEND, MESERVEY, BELMOND | |
| deed_state | OFTString | 49 | IA, IA, IA | |
| deed_zip_c | OFTString | 867 | 50597, 50457, 50421 | |
| gross_acre | OFTReal | 2.9k | 0.02, 0.0, 0.0 | |
| net_acres | OFTReal | 3.2k | 0.02, 0.0, 0.0 |
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.