11 attribute fields, profiled from the October 2022 vintage.
Columns in Marlboro County
| Field | Type | Filled | Distinct | Example values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pid | OFTString | 29.9k | 42, 33, 35 | |
| owner | OFTString | 13.3k | HODGE CHARLES A, WATEREE HOLDING LLC, ROGERS RICHARD S JANE B | |
| mailaddr1 | OFTString | 2.1k | C/O LARSON MCGOWIN LLC, C/O DELOITTE TAX LLP, C/O CONSERVATION FORESTRY | |
| mailaddr2 | OFTString | 10.0k | 3539 ATTADALE ROAD, PO BOX 1288, 1101 HWY 15-401 WEST | |
| mailaddr3 | OFTString | 902 | BLENHEIM SC, MOBILE AL, BENNETTSVILLE SC | |
| mail_zip | OFTString | 1.6k | 29516, 36633, 29512 | |
| situs | OFTString | 1 | 0, 0, 0 | |
| legal1 | OFTString | 731 | DRAKE POND ALONG SCREWPIN RD - TRACT AT FOOT OF HILL, ROAD CLOSED 2.67 + TO LAND, 7 MI N WALL | |
| legal2 | OFTString | 53 | 11 MI NW BENN, 020-04-79-074 - 020-09-95-036 - 020-02-70-023, ADDED EARLY FOR 2019 OWNERS/VAL CHNG DUE TO ATI FOR 2019 | |
| acres | OFTString | 2.9k | 265.20, 661.52, 220.00 | |
| parcel_id | OFTString | 19.1k | 064-01-01-014, 058-00-01-001, 059-00-02-007 |
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.