8 attribute fields, profiled from the November 2022 vintage.
Columns in McPherson County
| Field | Type | Filled | Distinct | Example values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| kspid | OFTString | 18.2k | 0592593200000003040, 0592593200000003030, 0592593200000003010 | |
| co_abbr | OFTString | 1 | MP, MP, MP | |
| parcel_id | OFTString | 18.1k | 0592593200000003040, 0592593200000003030, 0592593200000003010 | |
| pid | OFTString | 18.1k | 0592593200000003040, 0592593200000003030, 0592593200000003010 | |
| owner | OFTString | 11.7k | Evans, Dale Earl Kristina R, Evans, Dale Earl Kristina R, Radenberg, Maxine L | |
| situs | OFTString | 13.1k | 00000 APACHE RD, Inman, KS 67546., 00000 1ST AVE, Inman, KS 67546., 00000 APACHE RD, Inman, KS 67546. | |
| mail_addr | OFTString | 11.1k | 144 Apache RD Inman, KS 67546, 144 Apache RD Inman, KS 67546, 1650 NE 130th AVE Claflin, KS 67525 | |
| legal | OFTString | 18.1k | S32, T21, R05, ACRES 28.9, S2N2SW4SW4 S2SW4SW4 LESS ROW., S32, T21, R05, ACRES 30, S2NW4SW4 NESW4SW4 LESS ROW., S32, T21, R05, ACRES 30.1, S2N2NE4SW4 S2NE4SW4. |
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.