Free Parcel Data

Iowa Osceola County

Field dictionary

GEOID19143
Aged

10 attribute fields, profiled from the November 2022 vintage.

Columns in Osceola County

Field Type Filled Distinct Example values
parcel_id OFTString 100% 12.3k 270121534000, 270121533000, 270121530990
pid OFTString 100% 12.3k 270121534000, 270121533000, 270121530990
altid OFTString 100% 11.9k 000000121534000, 000000121533000, 000000121530990
owner OFTString 100% 4.0k Beverly Land Company, Beverly Land Company, Chicago Northwestern Transportation Co
mail_addr OFTString 100% 3.7k 165 N Canal St Chicago, IL 60606-, 165 N Canal St Chicago, IL 60606-, 711 7th St Ashton, IA 51232
situs OFTString 31% 3.6k NETTLE AVE ASHTON, 2387 NORTHWEST BLVD ASHTON, 240TH ST ASHTON
use_code OFTString 100% 7 A, A, C
acres OFTString 78% 2.7k 39.25, 39.5, 12.44
legal OFTString 100% 5.6k SE1/4 SW1/4 AG LANDS, SW1/4 SW1/4 AG LANDS, RR ROW ACROSS SW1/4 AG LANDS
key OFTString 100% 12.3k 270121534000, 270121533000, 270121530990

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.