Free Parcel Data

Michigan Bay County

Field dictionary

GEOID26017
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28 attribute fields, profiled from the February 2024 vintage.

Columns in Bay County

Field Type Filled Distinct Example values
objectid OFTInteger 100% 50.0k 41286, 41287, 41288
globalid OFTString 100% 50.0k 57795eff-b07b-4728-821b-fc1d75a98cbc, 46f98fff-e199-443d-89a9-3c25b21a4944, 453dada5-2fa7-4829-850e-16493d589c84
parcelid OFTString 100% 50.0k 090-031-400-040-01, 090-032-300-050-00, 090-031-300-010-02
txparcelin OFTString 100% 1 Yes, Yes, Yes
rowind OFTString 100% 2 No, No, No
rrind OFTString 100% 2 No, No, No
hydroind OFTString 100% 2 No, No, No
lastupdate OFTString 72% 119 2021-11-01, 2021-11-01, 2021-11-01
lasteditor OFTString 72% 7 RSMITH, RSMITH, RSMITH
acreagecal OFTReal 100% 36.5k 0.93580962, 0.94658479, 0.93411591
zipcode OFTInteger 100% 21 48747, 48747, 48601
shape_leng OFTReal 100% 50.0k 831.999861279, 812.443071463, 806.914631173
shape_area OFTReal 100% 50.0k 40763.8672427, 41233.233518, 40690.089156
shape__are OFTReal 100% 49.6k 40763.87, 41233.23, 40690.09
publicind OFTString 1% 3 Yes, Yes, Yes
oldapn OFTString 29% 14.9k 091605426002, 091605476001, 091608226001
parcel_id OFTString 99% 50.0k 090-031-400-040-01, 090-032-300-050-00, 090-031-300-010-02
ParcelNumb OFTString 99% 50.0k 090-031-400-040-01, 090-032-300-050-00, 090-031-300-010-02
PropAddres OFTString 99% 44.9k 2990 S KNIGHT RD, 344 WEBBER RD, 7395 WILSHIRE RD
PropAddr_1 OFTString 99% 1.7k KNIGHT RD, WEBBER RD, WILSHIRE RD
PropAddr_2 OFTString 99% 18 MUNGER, MUNGER, SAGINAW
PropAddr_3 OFTString 99% 1 MI, MI, MI
PropAddr_4 OFTString 99% 4.2k 48747, 48747, 48601
OwnerName1 OFTString 99% 42.6k JACOBS, MARILYN K, ZWERK, MATTHEW M & EESHEL, K & K WENDLAND LLC; M & A WENDLAND
OwnerStree OFTString 99% 39.4k 2990 S KNIGHT RD, 344 W WEBBER RD, 3955 N PORTSMOUTH RD
OwnerCity OFTString 99% 924 MUNGER, MUNGER, SAGINAW
OwnerState OFTString 99% 49 MI, MI, MI
OwnerZip OFTString 99% 8.6k 48747-9766, 48747, 48601

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.