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A land question starts with a boundary and ends with what the ground will allow. ParcelOps reads the county parcel record, the soils and elevation under the tract, the water and habitat mapped across it, and what the nearest public infrastructure record says, and it names the office behind every one of those answers.

64 sources are connected for this lane today. Each one has its own page naming the office that publishes it, how often it updates, and what it cannot answer. Rebuilt from the ParcelOps source registry on September 9, 2026.

The questions this lane asks.

Every answer below comes back with the office that published it and the date it was read, so it can be checked rather than trusted.

  • Who does the county record say owns this tract, and how many acres does it call it?
  • What are the soils, the slope, and the elevation across it?
  • Does a mapped wetland, flood zone, or critical habitat cross the parcel?
  • Is any of it inside a protected area or a federal land boundary?
  • What have farm and ranch land values done in this county?

What this lane reads.

This list is built from the source directory at build time, not typed here, so a source added to ParcelOps shows up on the lane it serves without anyone remembering to add it.

Parcel and ownership records

The boundary, the acreage the office publishes, and the name on the record.

  • 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.

Assessment and value history

What the taxing office has carried for the property, and for how long.

  • Texas County Exemption Rules

    Texas agricultural and wildlife exemption rules, appraisal district contacts, and productivity values for all 254 counties.

  • Texas Appraisal History

    Search all 252 Texas counties by address, owner, legal description, or map point, screen rural land by acreage and owner type, and read full appraisal and exemption history.

  • US Public Assessments

    Search official public assessment records across selected states and major cities, with up to three years where the publisher provides them.

Ground conditions

The same public hazard and environment records serve every lane. What changes is which of them decides your deal.

Access, utilities, and what is nearby

Roads, bridges, power, pipelines, and airspace around the tract.

Outside the United States

Where the same land question is asked somewhere ParcelOps reaches worldwide.

Classified here, not connected yet.

These sit in this lane in the ParcelOps directory and are not live, so they answer nothing today. They are named because a list that hides the unfinished half of itself is the thing this page is arguing against: FCC Broadband Availability, Spain Cadastre INSPIRE, France Cadastre, UK Land Registry INSPIRE.

County by county.

Land answers are county work, and county coverage is uneven. The county pages say which counties ParcelOps has a parcel route it has queried and checked, and which it does not.

A county earns a page only when ParcelOps has a route it has queried and checked there, with named fields and a check date. Counties without one are listed as having no route rather than being dropped from the count. Last checked July 30, 2026.

TexasVirginiaNorth CarolinaTennesseeNebraskaIndianaOhioMississippi

See every state and county with a checked parcel route.

Where this stops.

The part a directory of sources will not tell you, and the part worth reading before an answer goes into a decision.

  • A parcel record is not a survey and not a title record. The boundary and the acreage are what the publishing office carries, and on rural land those disagree with a survey more often than anywhere else.
  • Soils, wetlands, and habitat layers are mapped at a scale that answers "look here", not "build here". A field determination is a different document.
  • Mineral, water, and access rights live in recorded documents. ParcelOps does not read deeds.
  • Zoning and subdivision rules are set locally and are not published as one national record, so ParcelOps cannot answer them everywhere.

Questions land buyers ask.

Can I check acreage without ordering a survey?

You can check what the county publishes, which is not the same thing. Most offices carry two numbers, the acreage written into the legal description and the acreage computed from the mapped shape, and they often differ. ParcelOps returns what that county publishes and names the office that publishes it, so a disagreement is visible instead of averaged away. A survey is still the only document that settles a boundary.

Does ParcelOps cover rural counties?

Unevenly, and it says which. A county gets a page only when ParcelOps has a parcel route it has queried and checked, with named fields and a check date. Counties without one are listed as having no route rather than being quietly dropped, and for those ParcelOps points at the office responsible instead of returning an empty answer that reads like a negative.

What can public records not tell me about a piece of land?

Anything recorded in a deed rather than published as data. Easements, mineral and water rights, access agreements, and liens are recorded county by county in documents ParcelOps does not read. Local zoning and subdivision rules are the same. Treat what comes back as the screen before the title work, not as a replacement for it.

Questions this lane answers.

Who works this lane.

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  • Real estate law

    Federal rule text, rulemaking dockets, party records, and the property facts a filing has to state.

  • Realtors and brokerages

    The facts behind a listing, the programs a buyer may qualify for, and your own files in the same place.

Run one real property before you decide anything.

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