Free Parcel Data

Michigan Houghton County

Field dictionary

GEOID26061
Aged

43 attribute fields, profiled from the August 2022 vintage.

Columns in Houghton County

Field Type Filled Distinct Example values
PARCEL_ID OFTString 98% 28.6k 001-008-038-00, 001-008-037-00, 001-009-015-00
SITUS OFTString 87% 18.8k 10719 E CHALLENGE MINE RD, 10796 E CHALLENGE MINE RD, 11120 E CHALLENGE MINE RD
ADDR_NUMBE OFTString 66% 11.3k 10719, 10796, 11120
STREET_PRE OFTString 19% 43 E, E, E
STREET_NAM OFTString 87% 1.4k CHALLENGE MINE, CHALLENGE MINE, CHALLENGE MINE
STREET_SUF OFTString 0% 5 BLL, BLL, BLL
STREET_TYP OFTString 76% 39 Rd, Rd, Rd
SITUS_CITY OFTString 50% 17 TOIVOLA, TOIVOLA, TOIVOLA
SITUS_ZIP OFTString 50% 17 49965, 49965, 49965
ADDR_SEC_U OFTString 1% 120 & 40, & 40, # 1
OWNER OFTString 97% 18.7k HOUGHTON CO RD COMMISSION, RUONAVAARA LOWELL, NORTH JOYCE M ET AL
TRANS_DATE OFTDate 57% 5.0k 2010-10-15, 2012-07-05, 1999-09-01
SALE_PRICE OFTReal 100% 1.7k 0.0, 9000.0, 99.0
LAND_USE_C OFTString 97% 41 703, 401, 401
LAND_US_01 OFTString 91% 5 Tax Exempt, Residential, Residential
LAND_COVER OFTString 100% 27.1k {"41": 177, "71": 12}, {"21": 114, "22": 49, "23": 36, "71": 53}, {"21": 24, "22": 2, "41": 196, "43": 203, "71": 244}
CROP_COVER OFTString 100% 22.5k {"141": 0.08, "143": 0.05}, {"121": 0.42, "122": 0.1, "141": 0.04, "143": 0.1}, {"121": 0.0, "141": 0.19, "143": 0.38}
MUNI_ID OFTInteger64 100% 16 1625801, 1625801, 1625801
SCHOOL_DIS OFTInteger64 100% 11 2601890, 2601890, 2601890
ACREAGE OFTReal 100% 4.6k 0.16, 0.63, 34.1
ACREAGE_AD OFTReal 100% 21.9k 1.24036314890877, 0.649702006100287, 41.5732465102259
MKT_VAL_TO OFTReal 97% 17.3k 0.0, 27324.0, 32721.0
ZIP_CODE OFTString 100% 20 49965, 49965, 49965
LEGAL_DESC OFTString 97% 28.4k A1-9-8 SEC 9 T53N R35W GOV'T LOT 1. 39.96 A., A1-9-6 SEC 9 T53N R35W NE 1/4 OF SW 1/4. 40 A., A1-17-2 SEC 17 T53N R35W E 1/2 OF NW 1/4 OF NE 1/4. 20 A.
PLSS_SECTI OFTString 100% 36 08, 08, 09
PLSS_TOWNS OFTString 100% 10 53N, 53N, 53N
PLSS_RANGE OFTString 100% 7 35W, 35W, 35W
MAIL_ADDRE OFTString 95% 16.6k ROYCE RD, 10727 CHALLENGE MINE RD, PO BOX 34
MAIL_AD_01 OFTString 97% 2.5k HANCOCK, MI 49930, TOIVOLA, MI 49965, TOIVOLA, MI 49965
OWNER_OCCU OFTString 100% 3 F, F, F
USPS_RESID OFTString 100% 3 ?, ?, ?
CENSUS_TRA OFTInteger64 100% 10 700, 700, 700
CENSUS_BLK OFTInteger 100% 4 3, 3, 3
CENSUS_BLO OFTInteger 100% 633 3061, 3061, 3061
AREA_METER OFTReal 100% 30.4k 512.240836079296, 2629.20159483747, 168237.815184436
PLACE_GNIS OFTInteger64 30% 9 2399854, 2399854, 2399854
ELEVATION OFTString 100% 30.2k
ROBUST_ID OFTString 100% 30.6k AABlzR9e2uBRJIsw, AABlzb9rn7mvwKk-, AABlzYkrF89C7jEW
CALC_ACREA OFTReal 100% 30.4k 0.126579833003555, 0.649702006100287, 41.573246510226
COUNTY_NAM OFTString 100% 1 Houghton, Houghton, Houghton
COUNTY_FIP OFTInteger64 100% 1 26061, 26061, 26061
STATE_ABBR OFTString 100% 1 MI, MI, MI
CTY_ROW_ID OFTInteger64 100% 30.6k 82, 81, 109

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.