7 attribute fields, profiled from the September 2017 vintage.
Columns in Billings County
| Field | Type | Filled | Distinct | Example values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| parcel_num | OFTString | 3.3k | 19 0000 00891 000, 13 8000 00510 000, 14 0000 00530 000 | |
| prop_addr | OFTString | 738 | 2599 HWY 85 SW, 13580 21 ST SW, 12367 18 ST SW | |
| owner_name | OFTString | 804 | KRUSHEVSKY GEORGE, CERKONEY BILL & SARA, WANNER ADAM & CARRIE | |
| legal_desc | OFTString | 2.3k | W1/2NW1/4, SW1/4 LESS 10.61 ARW & 3.05 SCHOOL 26-142-99, MOBILE HOME, E1/2 LESS 7.41 ARW 10-141-99 | |
| acreage | OFTReal | 1.2k | 236.95, 0.0, 320.0 | |
| prop_type | OFTString | 12 | Farm, Mobile Home, Farm | |
| tax_dist | OFTString | 33 | 142099, 141098, 141099 |
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.