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.
- What does the current federal rule text say, and what changed?
- Is there an open rulemaking that would change it?
- What is publicly filed about the party on the other side?
- What does the county record say about the parcel a filing describes?
- Which conditions on this site would a disclosure have to name?
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.
Rules and rulemaking
Current federal rule text and the dockets that change it.
Electronic Code of Federal Regulations
Search the current text and structure of federal regulations affecting housing, land, lending, and environmental review.
Federal Register
Official federal rules, proposed rules, notices, and agency documents for property and land research.
Regulations.gov
Federal rulemaking dockets, documents, and public comments for land, housing, finance, and infrastructure research.
Parties, filings, and standing
Court records, business filings, exclusion lists, and operator standing.
CourtListener & RECAP
Search U.S. opinions and RECAP dockets, including bankruptcy-party signals.
SEC EDGAR Business Filings
Resolve public companies and review filing history and bounded XBRL financial evidence.
ParcelOps Business Verification
One-call public-record business verification with identity resolution, evidence, coverage, and explicit uncertainty.
Consolidated Screening List
Screen names across consolidated U.S. export-restriction lists with source evidence.
SAM.gov Entities & Exclusions
Search public federal entity registrations, UEIs, CAGE codes, and active exclusions.
Texas Comptroller Business Records
Search active Texas franchise taxpayers and sales-tax permit holders.
GLEIF Entity Registry
Resolve business names to LEIs and inspect direct and ultimate parent relationships.
Texas RRC Operator Standing
Review Texas P-5 operator identity, status, and public financial-assurance evidence.
Property facts behind a filing
The county parcel and assessment record a document describes.
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.
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.
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.
Conditions a disclosure has to name
The same public hazard and environment records serve every lane. What changes is which of them decides your deal.
US Census Address & Geography
Match a US address and return its Census state, county, tract, block, and metro identifiers.
Census Housing & Business Context
Housing estimates plus county establishment, employment, and payroll context.
EPA Regulated Facilities
US regulated facilities, permits, inspections, compliance, and enforcement history from EPA ECHO.
USFWS Critical Habitat
Final and proposed federal critical-habitat areas by species or US property location.
USGS Protected Areas & Public Lands
Nationwide protected-area and public-land ownership, management, access, and conservation context.
US Forest Service Boundaries
Check one point against the current source-specific Forest Service Basic Ownership layer.
NLCD 2021 Point Land Cover
Sample one lower-48 point from the verified 30 m MRLC NLCD 2021 WMS layer.
US Municipal Open Data Discovery
Find local property datasets or search normalized permit, inspection, and violation events in five US markets.
Data.gov Catalog Discovery
Search federal catalog metadata without fetching the linked datasets.
HUD Rents, Income Limits & ZIP Crosswalks
Official Fair Market Rents, housing-program income limits, and ZIP-to-Census crosswalk ratios.
FHFA Housing Finance Context
Quarterly state and metro home price trends plus county conforming loan limits.
USDA Agricultural Land Values
Official agricultural land asset-value statistics for one state or county and year.
FEMA Flood Zones
Flood hazard maps from FEMA, for an early check on a US property.
US Wetlands
Wetland maps from the US Fish and Wildlife Service, for checking land and property.
USDA Soils
Soil survey data from the USDA for land, building, farming, and pre-purchase research.
USGS Elevation
Ground elevation for US properties and land, from the US Geological Survey.
OpenFEMA Property Risk
Declared disasters, flood insurance claim patterns, and public aid data for US market research.
USGS Water Observations
USGS streamflow, stage, site, daily-value, water-quality, and groundwater observations.
EPA TRI Facilities
Direct, bounded lookup of facilities in EPA’s Toxics Release Inventory.
EPA Facility Registry
EPA facility identifiers and cross-program links for reconciling environmental records.
EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting
Facility greenhouse-gas emissions, sectors, locations, rankings, and trends from EPA.
FEMA National Risk Index
County and census-tract screening across 18 natural hazards, vulnerability, and resilience.
National Register Historic Properties
Official unrestricted National Register buildings, sites, structures, objects, and districts.
USFS Site Wildfire Risk
Four national Wildfire Risk to Communities visualization metrics at one point.
CalGEM California Oil & Gas Wells
Wells near a California parcel, idle and orphan exposure, and the state review that can hold up a local building permit.
Colorado ECMC Oil & Gas Proximity
What sits near a Colorado parcel, over it, or is docketed to be drilled next door.
CA Air Resources Board
Which California air district and basin govern a location, whether it sits in a community air protection area, and what offset projects cover it.
USACE National Inventory of Dams
Which listed dams sit near a site, the hazard class the regulator assigned each one, and its condition and inspection record.
EPA Drinking Water (SDWIS)
Which public drinking water systems report service to a county, and what each one has been cited for.
National Response Center (USCG) Spill Reports
Reported oil, chemical, and hazmat releases called in to the Coast Guard hotline, by county and calendar year.
DoD Military Installations and Ranges
Where a property sits relative to military installation, range, and training area boundaries, and whether foreign buyer rules attach to the site.
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: Spain Cadastre INSPIRE, France Cadastre, UK Land Registry INSPIRE.
County by county.
Property facts are county facts. The county pages say which counties ParcelOps has a checked parcel route for, which is the same set a filing can be reconciled against here.
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.
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.
- Recorded documents are the gap, and it is a large one. Deeds, liens, easements, assignments, and judgments are recorded county by county, and ParcelOps does not read them.
- There is no title search here and no title commitment. Ownership shown is the county assessment record, which is a tax record.
- Court coverage is published opinions and federal docket entries. State trial courts are largely absent, and an empty result is not proof that nothing was filed.
- Nothing here is legal advice. A rule text answer is a starting point, and the controlling text and its effective date have to be confirmed.
Questions legal teams ask.
Can ParcelOps run a title search?
No. A title search reads the recorded document chain in the county where the property sits, and ParcelOps does not read recorded documents. What it can do is give you the county assessment record, the parcel geometry and the published property facts a search will be reconciled against, which shortens the work without replacing it.
How current is the federal rule text?
It comes from the electronic code, which is the daily updated version of the federal regulations, and the rulemaking side comes from the notice and comment dockets. That covers what the rule says now and what is proposed to change it. Effective dates and any state overlay still have to be confirmed against the controlling text, and ParcelOps returns the citation so that check is one step rather than a rebuild.
What does an empty court result mean?
Less than it looks like. The coverage is published opinions and federal dockets, so a party with only state trial court history can come back clean. Treat a hit as a lead worth reading and a miss as an unanswered question rather than a clearance.
Questions this lane answers.
- Who owns this property?
- How many acres is this property?
- Is this land in designated critical habitat?
- Has a spill been reported near this address?
- What environmental records exist for this site?
Who works this lane.
Public records for commercial real estate analysts
The assessor record, the program geography, the environmental file, and the entity across the table.
Property records for title and escrow teams
No recorded documents and no search. What is here is the county record a file gets reconciled against.
Rule text and property records for real estate attorneys
Federal rule text with its citation, open rulemaking, party records, and the property facts behind a filing.
A property data API for platform and integration teams
One endpoint across parcel, hazard, siting, program, and entity records, with per source coverage and limits published up front.
The other lanes.
Land research
Parcel records, ground conditions, and what reaches the property line, for raw and rural land.
Data center siting
Power, water, transport, airspace, and hazard screening for a site before anyone signs anything.
Commercial real estate
Parcel and assessment records, building programs, and the entity on the other side of the deal.
Residential real estate
The parcel record, the housing programs that touch an address, and the conditions a buyer asks about.
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.
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. Bring an address you already know the answer to.