Free Parcel Data

Alaska Anchorage Municipality

Field dictionary

GEOID02020
Aged

17 attribute fields, profiled from the June 2017 vintage.

Columns in Anchorage Municipality

Field Type Filled Distinct Example values
PARCEL_ID OFTString 100% 50.0k 09017103000, 09015103000, 09012101000
SITUS OFTString 0%
SITUS_ST OFTString 0%
SITUS_CITY OFTString 0%
SITUS_ZIP OFTString 0%
OWNER OFTString 100% 50.0k CHUGACH NATIONAL FOREST, UNIVERSAL FINANCING CORPORATION, MALONE JOSEPH T 50% & MALONE PAUL M 50%
ACREAGE OFTInteger64 100% 27.1k 1546380, 163350, 5935485
VALUE OFTInteger64 100% 10.5k 0, 189800, 122200
LEGALDESC1 OFTString 100% 50.0k US SURVEY 3738LT 1T9N R3E SEC 31, US SURVEY 3188LT 3T8N R3E SEC 5, US SURVEY 7012LT 33 REM
LEGALDESC2 OFTString 0%
LEGALDESC3 OFTString 0%
MAIL_ADDR1 OFTString 100% 50.0k No Address, 43695 Seward Hwy, Girdwood, AK 99587, No Address
MAIL_ADDR2 OFTString 0%
MAIL_ADDR3 OFTString 0%
COUNTY OFTString 100% 1 Anchorage, Anchorage, Anchorage
STATE OFTString 100% 1 AK, AK, AK
COUNTYFIPS OFTString 100% 1 02020, 02020, 02020

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.