Free Parcel Data

Michigan Montcalm County

Field dictionary

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22 attribute fields, profiled from the February 2024 vintage.

Columns in Montcalm County

Field Type Filled Distinct Example values
taxparcel_ OFTString 100% 41.8k 008-030-019-01, 008-030-020-10, 008-030-019-50
bsaexport_ OFTString 95% 30.7k RIDER PAUL & CARA, FOUNTAIN BERT L & RENEE L, VANDER STEL NORMAN B & LONI
bsaexpor_1 OFTString 8% 2.6k HOPKINS TERRY 1/2, MORRISON KATIE E, SMALLEY EMILY R, VUKOVICH KIMBERLY E/SAHLHUT KENNETH
bsaexpor_2 OFTString 95% 28.3k 10782 S JOHNSON RD, 10880 S JOHNSON RD, 10904 S JOHNSON RD
bsaexpor_3 OFTString 95% 913 GREENVILLE, GREENVILLE, GREENVILLE
bsaexpor_4 OFTString 95% 51 MI, MI, MI
bsaexpor_5 OFTString 95% 1.9k 48838, 48838, 48838
bsaexpor_6 OFTReal 95% 11.5k 10782.0, 10880.0, 10904.0
bsaexpor_7 OFTString 89% 2.2k JOHNSON RD, JOHNSON RD, JOHNSON RD
bsaexpor_8 OFTString 89% 30.5k 10782 S JOHNSON RD, 10880 S JOHNSON RD, 10904 S JOHNSON RD
bsaexpor_9 OFTString 95% 15 59070, 59070, 59070
bsaexpor10 OFTString 95% 15 402, 401, 401
bsaexpor11 OFTReal 95% 70 100.0, 100.0, 100.0
bsaexpor12 OFTString 95% 22 TAXABLE, TAXABLE, TAXABLE
bsaexpor13 OFTString 84% 31.5k 2019R-10390, 2016R-1311, 1183-1251
bsaexpor14 OFTString 95% 23 008, 008, 008
objectid OFTInteger 100% 44.2k 13939, 13940, 13941
mapacreage OFTReal 100% 44.0k 28.2708781718401, 3.01169496167128, 2.89674020409562
bsaexpor15 OFTReal 95% 3.3k 73400.0, 90600.0, 100000.0
bsaexpor16 OFTReal 95% 19.9k 67749.0, 61800.0, 71681.0
shape__are OFTReal 100% 43.2k 214975.484375, 22900.55859375, 22026.890625
shape__len OFTReal 100% 44.2k 2534.36421575031, 702.009858990265, 687.110801594184

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.