27 attribute fields, profiled from the May 2017 vintage.
Columns in Menard County
| Field | Type | Filled | Distinct | Example values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PARCEL_ID | OFTString | 4.9k | 0, 0, 0 | |
| PID | OFTString | 4.8k | 1, 100, 1000 | |
| GEO_ID | OFTString | 4.8k | 00001-0291-000-00, 00035-0029-100-00, 00420-0077-100-01 | |
| OWNER | OFTString | 1.8k | RAFTER Z RANCH, LP, WHITEHEAD RANCHES, LLC, FOUNTAIN CREEK RANCH, LLC | |
| OWNER2 | OFTString | 341 | LOYD WHITEHEAD, C/O INDUSTRY CONSULTING GROUP, INC., ATTN: SYSTEM REAL ESTATE OFFICE | |
| PREV_OWN | OFTString | — | ||
| MAIL_ADDR1 | OFTString | 1.6k | P.O. BOX 130, P.O. BOX 158, 3630 LOST CREEK BLVD | |
| MAIL_ADDR2 | OFTString | 21 | P.O. BOX 12276, P.O. BOX 12276, P. O. BOX 186 | |
| MAIL_ADDR3 | OFTString | 463 | MIDLAND, TX 79702, MENARD, TX 76859, AUSTIN, TX 78735 | |
| SITUS1 | OFTString | 1.9k | 1898 E WHITEHEAD ROAD, 3068 FM RD 1221, 11382 FM RD 1221 | |
| SITUS2 | OFTString | 135 | P1411 MASON, P1411 MASON, P6989 MASON | |
| LEGAL1 | OFTString | 994 | SAM AMENDT, A B AND M, H AND TC RR CO | |
| LEGAL2 | OFTString | 3.1k | ABST. 1, SUR 291, ABST: 35, SEC 29, ABST 420, SEC 77 | |
| LEGAL3 | OFTString | 280 | TRT 2 - 3840.97 AC, COMBINED PARCEL 1005 WITH 1004, LIFE ESTATE | |
| LEGAL4 | OFTString | 103 | PERSONAL PROPERTY, PERSONAL PROPERTY, COMBINED WITH 35476/35477 | |
| SUBDIV | OFTString | 924 | SAM AMENDT, A B AND M, H AND TC RR CO | |
| BLOCK | OFTString | 90 | 21, A, A | |
| LOT | OFTString | 969 | 291, 29, 77 | |
| ABSTRACT | OFTString | 1.4k | 1, 35, 420 | |
| ACRES | OFTString | 3.0k | 11.585, 640.000, 21.390 | |
| LAND_VAL | OFTString | 3.2k | 81,100, 704,000, 42,780 | |
| IMP_VAL | OFTString | 1.9k | 0, 122,120, 0 | |
| MKT_VAL | OFTString | 4.0k | 81,100, 826,120, 42,780 | |
| SALE_VOL | OFTString | 160 | 225, 205, 239 | |
| SALE_PG | OFTString | 746 | 143, 506, 148 | |
| SALE_DATE | OFTString | 1.4k | 12/31/2009, 6/19/2006, 3/6/2013 | |
| PARCELID | OFTString | 4.9k | 0, 0, 0 |
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.