10 attribute fields, profiled from the April 2024 vintage.
Columns in Hancock County
| Field | Type | Filled | Distinct | Example values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| parcel_id | OFTString | 37.7k | 370001007726, 370001006707, 370001006706 | |
| pid | OFTString | 37.7k | 370001007726, 370001006707, 370001006706 | |
| altid | OFTString | 37.7k | 290931000009006, 290931000009004, 290931000009003 | |
| owner | OFTString | 26.0k | HANNA CRYSTAL A JOSHUA, SHOBE GARY S JO ANN, MOORE ANDREA F | |
| mail_addr | OFTString | 23.4k | 630 COUNTY RD 1 ADA OH 45810, 620 COUNTY RD 1 ADA OH 45810, 580 COUNTY RD 1 ADA OH 45810 | |
| situs | OFTString | 28.5k | 630 COUNTY RD 1 ADA, 620 COUNTY RD 1 ADA, 580 COUNTY RD 1 ADA | |
| use_code | OFTString | 105 | 511 RESIDENTIAL DWELLING UNPLATTED LAND 0 TO 9.99 ACRES, 511 RESIDENTIAL DWELLING UNPLATTED LAND 0 TO 9.99 ACRES, 561 HOUSE TRAILER AFFIXED TO REAL ESTATE UNPLATTED | |
| acres | OFTString | 8.5k | 1.515, 1.01, 1.01 | |
| legal | OFTString | 34.2k | T2S R09 S31 PT S1/2 SE1/4, T2S R09 S31 PT SW1/4 SE1/4 PARCEL B, T2S R09 S31 PT SW1/4 SE1/4 PARCEL A | |
| key | OFTString | 37.9k | 370001007726, 370001006707, 370001006706 |
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.