8 attribute fields, profiled from the August 2022 vintage.
Columns in Sherman County
| Field | Type | Filled | Distinct | Example values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| parcel_id | OFTString | 3.9k | 250003700, 070063000, 300007500 | |
| pid | OFTString | 3.9k | 250003700, 070063000, 300007500 | |
| ownername | OFTString | 2.0k | BOYLES,ZACHERY S, LOUP BASIN RECLAMATION DISTRICT, KALKOWSKI,JAMES J & JOANN LIFE ESTATE | |
| owneraddre | OFTString | 2.0k | PO BOX 99 ASHTON NE 68817-, PO BOX 137 FARWELL NE 68838-0137, LUTH,VICTORIA L & ET ALS PO BOX 156 ROCKVILLE NE 68871- | |
| propertyad | OFTString | 1.8k | 274\ INGRAM AVE, 175\ E GIFFORD ST, 160\ E FORDHAM ST | |
| legaldesc | OFTString | 3.9k | 0-15-13 LOTS 13 & 14, BLK 5, O.T. 2 LOTS ASH VILL, 34-15-13 PT W 1/2 34-15-13 (40.33 AC) ASHTON, 0-13-13 10 THRU 12, BLK 19, O.T. 3 LOTS ROCK VILL | |
| acres | OFTReal | 3.6k | 0.321398, 10.643719, 0.37535 | |
| ppid | OFTString | 4.0k | 250003700, 070063000, 300007500 |
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.