Free Parcel Data

Pennsylvania Bedford County

Field dictionary

GEOID42009
Aged

21 attribute fields, profiled from the March 2022 vintage.

Columns in Bedford County

Field Type Filled Distinct Example values
name OFTString 100% 34.1k G.16-0.00-004-E, G.16-0.00-004-C, G.16-0.00-004-N
municipali OFTString 96% 82 MANN TWP, MANN TWP, MANN TWP
district_n OFTInteger 100% 39 190, 190, 190
control_no OFTInteger 100% 31.5k 13839, 13891, 13868
owner_name OFTString 100% 25.1k BABCOCK ROBERT L & AMY D, FEUILLET ROBERT JACQUES, FEUILLET ROBERT JACQUES
owner_na_1 OFTString 42% 7.7k & LISA C, & LISA C, & SHEILA D
owner_addr OFTString 100% 23.5k 421 INDIANA AVE, 378 SILVER MILLS RD, 378 SILVER MILLS RD
owner_ad_1 OFTString 9% 2.2k 190 WALKER LN, 190 WALKER LN, C/O LAND RECORDS SECTION
owner_ad_2 OFTString 1% 121 P O BOX 8451, P O BOX 97, P O BOX 97
owner_city OFTString 100% 1.4k HAGERSTOWN, ARTEMAS, ARTEMAS
owner_stat OFTString 100% 52 MD, PA, PA
owner_zip OFTInteger 100% 1.6k 21740, 17211, 17211
owner_zip_ OFTInteger 100% 1.3k 0, 0, 0
acres OFTReal 100% 9.9k 1.57, 0.96, 1.85
deed_book OFTString 96% 1.8k 1496, 0335, 0280
deed_page OFTString 96% 6.0k 0018, 0110, 0095
clean_gree OFTString 100% 2 Y, N, N
shape_leng OFTReal 100% 34.1k 1130.002778, 985.09707, 1549.264795
shape_area OFTReal 100% 34.1k 58168.822925, 59792.26061, 129309.740975
shape__are OFTReal 100% 34.0k 9154.734375, 9409.992188, 20350.257812
shape__len OFTReal 100% 34.1k 447.888553, 390.777201, 614.143626

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.