Free Parcel Data

Iowa Henry County

Field dictionary

GEOID19087
Aged

10 attribute fields, profiled from the October 2022 vintage.

Columns in Henry County

Field Type Filled Distinct Example values
parcel_id OFTString 100% 16.4k 220103110000100, 220103110000200, 220103120000100
pid OFTString 100% 16.4k 220103110000100, 220103110000200, 220103120000100
altid OFTString 100% 16.4k 100564000, 100720000, 100667000
owner OFTString 99% 8.3k Vandenberg, Kathlene K, Whitaker, Doris Ruth U/W/O Trust, Ross Family Trust
mail_addr OFTString 99% 7.2k 1473 140th Ave Donnellson, IA 52625, c/o W Clark Whitaker 17088 Rte W40 Hillsboro, IA 52630, c/o James M Ross 730 Limerock Dr NW Cedar Rapids, IA 52405
situs OFTString 50% 8.4k 3391 ASH AVE HILLSBORO, 1104 HENRY/LEE ST HILLSBORO, 1235 HENRY/LEE ST HILLSBORO
use_code OFTString 100% 10 A, A, A
acres OFTString 63% 3.4k 26.28, 36, 38.33
legal OFTString 99% 13.5k N 26.5A W 1/2 NW, MID 37A W 1/2 NW, NW NE
key OFTString 100% 16.4k 220103110000100, 220103110000200, 220103120000100

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.