35 attribute fields, profiled from the September 2018 vintage.
Columns in Giles County
| Field | Type | Filled | Distinct | Example values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OGC_FID | OFTInteger64 | 13.9k | 1, 2, 3 | |
| OBJECTID | OFTInteger64 | 13.9k | 4254, 13564, 13565 | |
| MAP | OFTString | 13.9k | 38-27, 74-34, 74-35 | |
| OWNER1 | OFTString | 8.6k | BLANKENSHIP PERRY G, FRANCIS ROBERT, COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA | |
| OWNER2 | OFTString | 965 | JIMMIE VEST TRUST, ALEXANDER KIM OR ALFRED PHILIP KIM, GARRY C VIERS AND TYLER R VIERS | |
| ADDRESS1 | OFTString | 7.0k | 239 JOHNSON STREET, 1949 WALKERS CREEK VALLEY RD, 173 SANDS ROAD | |
| ADDRESS2 | OFTString | 547 | 16535 ARCH HILL ROAD, 8581 SANTA MONICA BLVD STE 703, 162 ROSEBUSH LANE | |
| CITY | OFTString | 544 | NARROWS, PEARISBURG, PEARISBURG | |
| STATE | OFTString | 45 | VA, VA, VA | |
| ZIP | OFTReal | 655 | 24124.0, 24134.0, 0.0 | |
| ACREAGE | OFTReal | 3.6k | 5.054, 70.0, 80.0 | |
| LAND_VALUE | OFTReal | 1.6k | 31100.0, 90000.0, 160000.0 | |
| IMP_VALUE | OFTReal | 2.2k | 33800.0, 0.0, 0.0 | |
| USE_VALUE | OFTReal | 594 | 0.0, 16700.0, 0.0 | |
| DEED_BOOK | OFTString | 519 | 39, 205, 371 | |
| DEED_PAGE | OFTReal | 894 | 0.0, 18.0, 0.0 | |
| INST_TYPE | OFTString | 5 | D, D, D | |
| INST_YEAR | OFTReal | 15 | 2013.0, 0.0, 0.0 | |
| INST_NO | OFTReal | 2.4k | 2166.0, 0.0, 0.0 | |
| INST_NO2 | OFTReal | 14 | 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 | |
| GRANTOR | OFTString | 6.2k | BLANKENSHIP PERRY AND CHARLES, VEST JIMMIE L, WENGARD BEN E OR CORA | |
| PLAT_BOOK | OFTString | 413 | 21, 0000, 296 | |
| SALE_DATE | OFTString | 3.8k | 11/22/2013, 10/01/1993, 00/00/0000 | |
| PLAT_PAGE | OFTReal | 442 | 43.0, 0.0, 0.0 | |
| DESC1 | OFTString | 4.7k | SURVEYED FOR, SANDS, MUSTARD | |
| DESC2 | OFTString | 3.0k | PERRY G BLANKENSHIP, PLAT OF LARGE LOT SUBDIVISION OF, 12.8664 AC (.57 AC IN BLAND CO) | |
| DESC3 | OFTString | 1.2k | TAX MAP 78-10 AND 78 -10, WALKER MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FARM, BILL & SAMANTHA TALBERT | |
| HOTLINK | OFTString | 13.9k | G:\imagelink\0000562_01_01.jpg, G:\imagelink\0002196_01_01.jpg, G:\imagelink\0012016_01_01.jpg | |
| STAREA() | OFTReal | 13.8k | 12845695.007812, 3950519.539062, 2836326.222656 | |
| STLENGTH() | OFTReal | 13.9k | 357961.974078, 12912.20758, 9739.770903 | |
| SALE_PRICE | OFTReal | 1.2k | 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 | |
| ACCOUNT | OFTReal | 13.9k | 562.0, 2196.0, 12016.0 | |
| DISTRICT | OFTString | 8 | 01, 02, 02 | |
| RECNO | OFTReal | 13.9k | 562.0, 2196.0, 12016.0 | |
| DRECNO | OFTString | 13.9k | 0000562, 0002196, 0012016 |
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.