10 attribute fields, profiled from the May 2022 vintage.
Columns in Clinton County
| Field | Type | Filled | Distinct | Example values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| parcel_id | OFTString | 34.2k | 5206130000, 5206570000, 5206180000 | |
| pid | OFTString | 34.2k | 5206130000, 5206570000, 5206180000 | |
| altid | OFTString | 33.9k | 1530300001, 1531400007, 1530300002 | |
| owner | OFTString | 19.7k | HORMAN RANDALL L SANDRA K, OAH INC, KELTING DOUGLAS | |
| mail_addr | OFTString | 17.8k | 1023 262 ST WHEATLAND, IA 52777, P O BOX 500 NEVADA, IA 50201, 2670 110 AVE WHEATLAND, IA 52777 | |
| situs | OFTString | 21.3k | 2678 110 AVE WHEATLAND, 2691 110 AVE WHEATLAND, 1023 280 ST WHEATLAND | |
| use_code | OFTString | 8 | A, A, A | |
| acres | OFTString | 3.1k | 40, 0.25, 40 | |
| legal | OFTString | 34.1k | 30-81-1 NW SW, 31-81-1 PRT SE SW SE, 30-81-1 NE SW | |
| key | OFTString | 34.2k | 5206130000, 5206570000, 5206180000 |
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.