21 attribute fields, profiled from the March 2019 vintage.
Columns in Sterling County
| Field | Type | Filled | Distinct | Example values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PARCEL_ID | OFTString | 2.1k | 5925, 5923, 5922 | |
| PID | OFTString | 1.1k | 5925, 5923, 5922 | |
| GEO_ID | OFTString | 1.1k | 00000006692400012, 00000008080800048, 00000002074800153 | |
| OWNER | OFTString | 473 | URIT SWD LLC, COX MELANIE KATE, TORRES REYNALDO FIGUEROA | |
| OWNER2 | OFTString | 148 | INC, STEVE MONREAL, JOE M DAVIS | |
| MAIL_ADDR1 | OFTString | 373 | P.O. BOX 1283, PO BOX 824, PO BOX 1083 | |
| MAIL_ADDR2 | OFTString | 5 | PO BOX 681, PO BOX 681, SUITE 200 | |
| MAIL_ADDR3 | OFTString | 296 | GRANBURY TX 76048, STERLING CITY TX 76951 0824, STERLING CITY TX 76951 1083 | |
| SITUS | OFTString | 309 | 915 5TH STREET, ELM, 111 9TH STREET | |
| SITUS2 | OFTString | 7 | STERLING CITY TX 76951, STERLING CITY TX 76951, STERLING CITY 76951 | |
| LEGAL1 | OFTString | 1.1k | AB 1136 BLK 7 SEC 28 H AND TC, LOTS 13 AND 14 BLK 6, LOTS 3-4 R AND H 19 | |
| LEGAL2 | OFTString | 293 | ORIG TOWN STER CITY, ORIGINAL 18, W/PT GEO RICHARDSON | |
| LEGAL3 | OFTString | 54 | INTERIOR LOT, STERLING MOTEL, MANUFACTURED HOME | |
| LEGAL4 | OFTString | 41 | HWY 87, HWY 87, TRACTS 15, 16, 17 | |
| SUBDIV | OFTString | 646 | R AND H, R AND H, ORIG | |
| BLOCK | OFTString | 78 | 19, 19, 18 | |
| LOT | OFTString | 373 | 3 - 4, 2, LOT5 | |
| ABSTRACT | OFTString | 638 | 327, 214, 1312 | |
| ACRES | OFTString | 653 | 5.360, 0.321, 0.321 | |
| MKT_VAL | OFTString | 986 | 1,020, 61,600, 3,000 | |
| PPID | OFTString | 2.1k | 5925, 5923, 5922 |
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.