8 attribute fields, profiled from the November 2020 vintage.
Columns in Montague County
| Field | Type | Filled | Distinct | Example values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| parcel_id | OFTString | 20.3k | R000000001, R000000002, R000000002 | |
| pid | OFTString | 20.1k | R000000001, R000000002, R000000002 | |
| geoid | OFTString | 20.1k | 10002.0001.0001.0000, 10002.0001.0001.0001, 10002.0001.0001.0001 | |
| owner | OFTString | 11.4k | COX CECIL GEORGE, JONES JERRY JANICE, JONES JERRY JANICE | |
| mail_addr | OFTString | 10.0k | 304 SANDERS ST BOWIE, TX 76230-4822, PO BOX 1713 BOWIE, TX 76230, PO BOX 1713 BOWIE, TX 76230 | |
| legal | OFTString | 19.5k | Lot: 1 2, PART, Blk: 1, Subd: ORIGINAL BOWIE, PART OF LOTS 1 2, BLK 1, ORIG BOWIE, PART OF LOTS 1 2, BLK 1, ORIG BOWIE | |
| situs | OFTString | 12.1k | SANDERS ST 304, TARRANT ST 405 W, TARRANT ST 405 W | |
| ppid | OFTString | 20.3k | R000000001, R000000002, R000000002 |
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.