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Site selection data for data center and industrial sites

A site screen returns the published grid and utility picture around a coordinate, the entity responsible for water and sewer service there, the flood, wildfire, and seismic record, an airspace check against a proposed height, and the parcel underneath, each carrying the agency that published it. Nothing here says power is available at the property line, because no public record says that.

61 connected sources reach this work today, each with a page of its own naming the office behind it, how often it changes, and the questions it will not answer. Read from the ParcelOps source registry on September 9, 2026.

Who this is for.

Site selection consultants and corporate real estate teams filtering candidate sites for data centers, manufacturing, and logistics.

Screening is a filtering job, and the sites that die late are the expensive ones. Power, water, and a hazard nobody checked kill most candidates, and all three are knowable on day one.

What a screen has to answer.

  • What does the grid look like around this site, and who runs it?
  • Which entity is responsible for water and sewer service here?
  • What do the flood, wildfire, seismic, and dam records say about the point?
  • Will a structure at this height trip federal airspace review?
  • Who owns the ground, and is there a retired plant nearby with interconnection already built?

What answers those questions.

Nobody maintains this roster by hand. Each block claims a kind of source, the directory fills it at build time, and a source connected next month appears here on the build after that.

Power, water, and transport

The published infrastructure record around a coordinate, agency by agency.

Hazards and ground conditions

Flood, wildfire, seismic, water, soils, and the environmental record near the site.

The parcel underneath

Who the county record says owns the ground, and how much of it there is.

  • US Public Parcels

    Points to the official parcel source for every US state, DC, and inhabited territory. The same query format works wherever ParcelOps has checked a public source.

  • Texas Statewide Parcels

    Official statewide Texas parcel lookup from the Texas Geographic Information Office. Fields include the address on the tax record, owner, value, land use, and tax year where published.

  • Netherlands Cadastre

    Parcel shapes for the whole Netherlands from the national land registry, Kadaster, on its official PDOK data service.

  • Regrid Premium Parcels

    Nationwide standardized Regrid parcel records for owner, land use, zoning, acreage, and assessed values, using your own Regrid API key.

  • ATTOM Property Data

    ATTOM property detail, county assessment, recorded sale history, and AVM estimates with your own ATTOM API key.

  • RentCast Property & Rents

    RentCast property records, value estimates, long-term rent estimates, and sale comparables with your own RentCast API key.

  • Florida Statewide Parcels

    Statewide 2025 parcel attributes and geometry for all 67 Florida counties.

  • BLM Public Land Survey System

    Official PLSS township, range, section, meridian, and survey geometry.

  • Louisiana State Lands

    A clearly labeled October 25, 2023 snapshot of Louisiana state-owned land tracts.

  • North Dakota Trust Surface Lands

    North Dakota trust-land surface agricultural leases and public-access attributes.

What is already built there

Existing structures, federal holdings, and program geography around the site.

Catalogued for this role, not live.

ParcelOps has these in the directory for this kind of work and has not connected them, so they answer nothing today and no link goes to them. Naming them is the point of a page like this: USACE National Structure Inventory, FCC Broadband Availability, Census LODES Workforce Context, CDFI Fund Awards, SBA Commercial Loan Context, Spain Cadastre INSPIRE, France Cadastre, UK Land Registry INSPIRE.

What this does not cover.

The paragraph a directory of sources will not write, and the one worth reading before an answer goes into a decision someone else pays for.

  • Grid records describe a system. They carry no interconnection queue position, and only a utility study answers whether a site can be served.
  • A service area map names who is responsible for an area. It says nothing about capacity at the property line.
  • Fiber routes and available dark fiber are commercial records, and ParcelOps does not carry them.
  • Fixed broadband service is reported by the providers themselves, and the file read here reflects the June 2021 filing round rather than current buildout. Treat it as history and never as availability today.
  • The grid picture is deepest in Texas, where the state operator publishes it. Elsewhere the answer is national and coarser, and ParcelOps returns the coarser answer as it is.

The order a screen usually runs.

Cheapest disqualifier first, so the least time goes to the sites that will not survive the first three checks.

  1. 1Resolve the coordinate and read the parcel record underneath it.
  2. 2Read the grid context and the balancing authority whose footprint the area sits in.
  3. 3Check the water and sewer service area, in the states that publish one.
  4. 4Run flood, wildfire, seismic, and dam inundation against the point.
  5. 5Screen the proposed height against published airport and airspace surfaces.

County by county.

A screen still lands in a county. The county pages say where ParcelOps has a parcel route it has checked, so you know whether the ownership half of a screen will answer before you run it.

Coverage here is stated county by county rather than claimed nationally. A county gets a page once there is a route ParcelOps has queried and checked, with named fields and a check date, and a county without one is named as having none. Last checked July 30, 2026.

TexasVirginiaNorth CarolinaTennesseeNebraskaIndianaOhioMississippi

See every state and county with a checked parcel route.

Questions site selection teams ask.

How early can a candidate be cut?

The parcel, hazard, and airspace checks answer at a coordinate, so a long list can be cut before anyone books a flight. The power and water answers arrive at the level of who is responsible for an area, which is useful for routing the conversation and useless for capacity. A shortlist cut on a jurisdiction answer is a shortlist cut for the wrong reason.

What does a clean screen actually mean?

It means the records that were checked returned nothing, and the page names which those were. An interconnection study, a utility conversation, a water and sewer capacity answer, and local entitlement all sit past the end of it. The value of the screen is the sites it removes, not the confidence it gives about the ones that remain.

How much of this works outside Texas?

Most of it, at lower resolution on two axes. The hazard, airspace, transport, parcel, and land reuse records are national. Texas publishes a live grid picture from its own operator and certificated water and sewer service areas that no other state publishes in the same form, so those two answers are genuinely deeper there and ParcelOps says so rather than dressing up the national equivalent.

The work this sits in.

  • Data center siting

    Power, water, transport, airspace, and hazard screening for a site before anyone signs anything.

  • Land research

    Parcel records, ground conditions, and what reaches the property line, for raw and rural land.

Other roles.

  • Land brokers

    The county record behind a tract, the ground under it, and the questions only a survey or a deed can settle.

  • Commercial real estate analysts

    The assessor record, the program geography, the environmental file, and the entity across the table.

  • Residential agents

    The county facts behind an address, the flood answer buyers ask for, and the programs a buyer may fall inside.

  • Appraisers and assessment staff

    Assessment history by year, the parcel record behind it, and the site conditions a report has to mention.

  • Property tax consultants

    Year by year assessment history, the parcel record, and the conditions that argue against a carried value.

  • Environmental consultants

    Facilities, releases, water, wetlands, and land reuse records around a site, with what each record actually asserts.

  • Lenders and underwriters

    The county record behind collateral, the published hazard picture, and the program geography that changes terms.

  • Title and escrow teams

    No recorded documents and no search. What is here is the county record a file gets reconciled against.

  • Real estate attorneys

    Federal rule text with its citation, open rulemaking, party records, and the property facts behind a filing.

  • Platform and integration engineers

    One endpoint across parcel, hazard, siting, program, and entity records, with per source coverage and limits published up front.

Check it against a property you already know.

The free plan includes 50 tool calls for the life of the account. They never expire and never refill, and there is no credit card. The fastest way to judge any of this is to run an address whose answer you can already verify.

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