Free Parcel Data

Kansas Sherman County

Field dictionary

GEOID20181
Aged

8 attribute fields, profiled from the November 2022 vintage.

Columns in Sherman County

Field Type Filled Distinct Example values
kspid OFTString 100% 6.4k 0912793100000001000, 0912793200000001000, 0912792900000002000
co_abbr OFTString 100% 1 SH, SH, SH
parcel_id OFTString 100% 6.4k 0912793100000001000, 0912793200000001000, 0912792900000002000
pid OFTString 100% 6.4k 0912793100000001000, 0912793200000001000, 0912792900000002000
owner OFTString 100% 3.4k GOODLAND FARMS LLC, GOODLAND FARMS LLC, STOSKOPF, JAN A LIVING TR
situs OFTString 100% 3.2k 00000 CO RD, , KS., 00000 CO RD, , KS., 00000 CO RD, , KS.
mail_addr OFTString 100% 2.8k PO BOX 144 ELWOOD, NE 68937-0144, PO BOX 144 ELWOOD, NE 68937-0144, 130 PONDEROSA TRCE FAYETTEVILLE, GA 30214-1401
legal OFTString 100% 6.4k S31, T10, R39, ACRES 621, ALL SEC LESS RD R/W., S32, T10, R39, ACRES 641.6, ALL SEC., S29, T10, R39, ACRES 327.5, S2.

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.