42 attribute fields, profiled from the April 2023 vintage.
Columns in Chatham County
| Field | Type | Filled | Distinct | Example values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| objectid | OFTInteger | 47.2k | 2219, 2362, 2363 | |
| akpar | OFTInteger | 47.1k | 3102, 3375, 3376 | |
| pin | OFTString | 47.1k | 8645-10-5107.000, 8634-68-9810.000, 8634-67-4762.000 | |
| full_akpar | OFTString | 47.1k | 0003102, 0003375, 0003376 | |
| deed_name | OFTString | 37.1k | SHOWALTER TODD ALAN ETUX ROBIN GRISWOLD SHOWALTER, GARNER JAMES H & BARBARA H, KIDD THOMAS LYNN | |
| deed_book | OFTString | 2.2k | 2249, 0330, 1889 | |
| deed_page | OFTString | 1.3k | 0109, 0034, 0778 | |
| deed_year | OFTReal | 102 | 2021.0, 1967.0, 2016.0 | |
| plat_book | OFTString | 193 | 0000, 0000, 0093 | |
| plat_page | OFTString | 725 | 0000, 0000, 0062 | |
| land_fmv | OFTInteger | 28.5k | 108412, 149336, 33423 | |
| improv_fmv | OFTInteger | 32.2k | 203463, 127213, 96853 | |
| deed_acres | OFTReal | 12.2k | 36.25, 38.88000107, 3.98300004 | |
| site_addr | OFTString | 38.0k | 2514 NC HWY 22/42, 1690 BERNARD PURVIS RD, 1864 BERNARD PURVIS RD | |
| billing_1 | OFTString | 34.5k | SHOWALTER TODD ALAN, GARNER JAMES H, KIDD THOMAS LYNN | |
| billing_2 | OFTString | 20.2k | SHOWALTER ROBIN GRISWOLD, GARNER BARBARA H, GILLILAND BRENDA | |
| billing_3 | OFTString | 865 | MEGGS TANYA RENEE, CHEEK IRREVOCABLE FAMILY TRUST, BREWER ANDREW J | |
| address_1 | OFTString | 31.6k | 2514 NC HWY 22, 1690 BERNARD PURVIS RD, 1864 BERNARD PURVIS RD | |
| address_2 | OFTString | 1.5k | 2675 BERNARD PURVIS RD, 2040 FALL CREEK CH RD, 252 DUFFIE RD | |
| address_3 | OFTString | 424 | GARRETT M CARTER TRUST, C/O JOSEPH LUNDY POWERS, C/O JOSEPH LUNDY POWERS | |
| address_4 | OFTString | 147 | BROOKS REVOC TRUST, REVOCABLE TRUST, REVOCABLE TRUST | |
| billing_ci | OFTString | 1.1k | BENNETT, BENNETT, BENNETT | |
| billing_st | OFTString | 55 | NC, NC, NC | |
| billing_zi | OFTString | 11.4k | 27208, 27208, 27208 | |
| total_fmv | OFTInteger | 42.6k | 311875, 276549, 130276 | |
| currentown | OFTString | 35.4k | SHOWALTER TODD ALAN & SHOWALTER ROBIN GRISWOLD, GARNER JAMES H & GARNER BARBARA H, KIDD THOMAS LYNN | |
| shape_leng | OFTReal | 47.0k | 6374.01137414964, 6206.78330649976, 1648.65485835415 | |
| shape_area | OFTReal | 47.0k | 1567937.92718768, 1790323.11576922, 158936.36010745 | |
| legal_desc | OFTString | 36.2k | A 11 6B, A11-14, A11-15 | |
| ownerofrec | OFTString | 37.1k | SHOWALTER TODD ALAN ETUX ROBIN GRISWOLD SHOWALTER, GARNER JAMES H & BARBARA H, KIDD THOMAS LYNN | |
| owner_id | OFTString | 35.7k | 1376193, 12054, 48670 | |
| citycode | OFTString | 7 | SCETJ, SILER, SILER | |
| citycodede | OFTString | 7 | SILER CITY ETJ, SILER CITY, SILER CITY | |
| taxdistric | OFTReal | 19 | 113.0, 113.0, 113.0 | |
| taxdistr_1 | OFTString | 19 | BENNETT FIRE DISTRICT, BENNETT FIRE DISTRICT, BENNETT FIRE DISTRICT | |
| townshipco | OFTReal | 14 | 3.0, 3.0, 3.0 | |
| townshipde | OFTString | 13 | BEAR CREEK, BEAR CREEK, BEAR CREEK | |
| neighborho | OFTString | 484 | 0355, 0355, 0355 | |
| taxneighbo | OFTString | 481 | SOUTH WEST BEAR CREEK, SOUTH WEST BEAR CREEK, SOUTH WEST BEAR CREEK | |
| exemptionc | OFTString | 25 | ****, ****, RELG | |
| propertyty | OFTString | 5 | R, R, R | |
| subdivisio | OFTString | 553 | MAPLE SPRINGS, MAPLE SPRINGS, MONTERRANE |
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.