Field dictionary

GEOID22079

Columns in Rapides Parish

Field	Type	Filled	Distinct	Example values
ogc_fid	OFTInteger64	100%	50.0k	1, 2, 3
objectid	OFTString	100%	50.0k	548792835, 548780317, 548780321
rpid	OFTString	100%	50.0k	103005, 97983, 41829
gisid	OFTString	100%	50.0k	22079103005, 2207997983, 2207941829
countyid	OFTString	100%	1	22079, 22079, 22079
parcel_id	OFTString	99%	50.0k	5500799147002301, 5500699146000501, 5500799147000201
ownername	OFTString	98%	50.0k	FARRIS BENJAMIN JOHN ET AL, BLANK PARCEL, HUNT FOREST PRODUCTS LLC
acres	OFTString	98%	6.5k	41.674, 0, 258.32
legal	OFTString	89%	50.0k	---LT 2 SQ O OLD C'VILLE *PARCEL I.D. # 7-32-38094-6, ---LT 1 SQ 12 LECOMPTE PARCEL I.D. # 1-6-41158-1, ---LOT 92 SUNSET ACRES PARCEL I.D. # 4-3-8830-87*
parceladdr	OFTString	82%	50.0k	360 W CEMETERY RD 70656, 0 W CEMETERY RD - 0 BILL MAC RD, 0 ELLIS WEST RD 70656
totalvalue	OFTString	98%	7.2k	225640, 0, 73910
owneraddre	OFTString	89%	47.4k	360 W CEMETERY RD PITKIN LA 70656, P O BOX 1263 RUSTON LA 71273, 402 WEST PARKWAY PLACE RIDGELAND MS 39157

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.