48 attribute fields, profiled from the September 2022 vintage.
Columns in Roberts County
| Field | Type | Filled | Distinct | Example values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| record | OFTReal | 12.6k | 13719.0, 372.0, 13392.0 | |
| owner | OFTString | 5.6k | GREG UTNE, STANLEY & PAULINE ARNOLD FAMILY TRUST, DEAN R GAIKOWSKI | |
| legal | OFTString | 12.6k | SE4 EXC UTNE ADDITION SEC 30-122-52 ORTLEY TOWNSHIP, NE4 SEC 31-122-52 ORTLEY TOWNSHIP, E2SW4 & LOTS 3 & 4 SEC 19-122-52 ORTLEY TOWNSHIP | |
| legal_acre | OFTString | 3.0k | 159.00, 160.00, 154.93 | |
| add_l_owne | OFTString | 600 | ETAL: BARBARA DAILY; LINDA BARNHARDT, (WAYNE W & KAY L HALSE REVOC TR AGREEMENT), ETAL: LAKUDE J PALMER 1/2 INT | |
| property_a | OFTString | 4.8k | STR 30-122-52, 44961 143RD ST, STR 29-122-52 | |
| section | OFTString | 37 | 30, 31, 19 | |
| township | OFTString | 8 | 122N, 122N, 122N | |
| range | OFTString | 7 | 52W, 52W, 52W | |
| str | OFTString | 1.2k | 30-122N-52W, 31-122N-52W, 19-122N-52W | |
| twpname | OFTString | 30 | ORTLEY, ORTLEY, ORTLEY | |
| date | OFTString | 180 | 2019-10-22, 2019-10-22, 2020-03-04 | |
| ckd | OFTString | 9 | DS, DS, DS | |
| comments | OFTString | 468 | POSSIBLE DIGITIZING ERROR, CITY OF ORTLEY, ROW | |
| acres | OFTReal | 12.2k | 161.45141, 161.20956, 151.92757 | |
| record_q | OFTString | 12.6k | 13719, 372, 13392 | |
| owner_stre | OFTString | 3.8k | 44974 143RD ST, 44961 143RD ST, 13933 450TH AVE | |
| owner_city | OFTString | 531 | ORTLEY, ORTLEY, WAUBAY | |
| owner_st | OFTString | 43 | SD, SD, SD | |
| owner_zip | OFTString | 1.5k | 57256-8302, 57256-8302, 57273- | |
| school_dis | OFTString | 7 | 18-3, 18-3, 18-3 | |
| twp_block | OFTString | 129 | 122, 122, 122 | |
| quarter | OFTString | 6 | 4, 1, 1 | |
| sixteenth | OFTString | 5 | 0, 0, 3 | |
| split | OFTString | 53 | 0, 01, 02 | |
| filed_date | OFTString | 2.8k | 09/14/2004, 03/04/2013, 06/12/2014 | |
| instrument | OFTString | 3.4k | 09/09/2004, 01/24/2013, 06/06/2014 | |
| book | OFTString | 93 | 91, 98, M86 | |
| page | OFTString | 1.0k | 424, 135, 59 | |
| deed_type | OFTString | 76 | WARRANTY DEED, AFFIDAVIT, WD | |
| lot_size | OFTString | 1.4k | 75X142 50X142, 50 X 142, 75.7 X 142 | |
| year_built | OFTString | 132 | 0, 0, 0 | |
| sale_pr | OFTString | 913 | 0, 0, 1 | |
| sale_seque | OFTString | 3.2k | 16-0336, 20-0124, 15-0274 | |
| sale_type | OFTString | 3 | 0, 2, 2 | |
| sale_year | OFTString | 18 | 0, 2013, 2014 | |
| sale_numbe | OFTString | 559 | 0, 0, 0 | |
| land_code | OFTString | 3 | A, A, A | |
| code_name | OFTString | 3 | AG, AG, AG | |
| owner_occu | OFTString | 1 | OWNER OCCUPIED, OWNER OCCUPIED, OWNER OCCUPIED | |
| assessed_l | OFTString | 8.1k | 373278, 375654, 64139 | |
| assessed_b | OFTString | 3.1k | 6662, 0, 0 | |
| assessed_d | OFTString | 2.2k | 10086, 8967, 0 | |
| assessed_t | OFTReal | 10.3k | 390026.0, 384621.0, 64139.0 | |
| extent | OFTReal | 14.0k | 7032823.485339, 7022288.595607, 6617964.851215 | |
| shape_leng | OFTReal | 14.3k | 4791.908822, 4594.004026, 10685.948683 | |
| shape_area | OFTReal | 14.3k | 1321357.136705, 1319041.866528, 1244362.975472 | |
| objectid | OFTInteger | 14.4k | 87, 88, 3180 |
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.