Parcel data by state

Free parcel data in Georgia

Georgia has no single free statewide parcel layer we could verify, but many counties publish their own. Basesheet currently uses 18 Georgia county services: Bibb, Chatham, Cherokee, Clarke, Clayton, Cobb, Columbia, Coweta, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Hall, Muscogee, Paulding, Richmond.

County layers

Bibb County

Joined layer with messy names: the field literally named 'parcel_no' is BLANK on every record; use MAP_ROUTE (dashed, always populated, e.g. 'Q074-0469') or PARCEL_NO_1 / NWPARID (no dash, 'Q0740469'). SITEADDRESS is street only, trailing space ('718 POPLAR ST '). LASTNAME is the full owner name, space-padded. DEEDPAGE and PLOTPAGE are each ONE combined fixed-width 'BOOK PAGE' string (e.g. '11538 247', ' 94 142'; old books can be letters, ' Q 85'): split on whitespace. CITY/ADDRESS1 are the owner's mailing address. Macon-Bibb republishes a new service each year (ParcelCAMA2023, ParcelCAMA2024, ...); check for a newer one. The older 'ParcelsCAMA' service has cleaner names but one-year-older values.

Chatham County

Layer 27 of the OpenData/Parcels MapServer is the newest digest; SAGIS adds one layer per year (layer 26 = 2024, 25 = 2023, ...), so check the service for a 'Parcel Digest 2026' layer and bump the id when it appears. PIN has a space, e.g. '20016 23001'. PropAddress_Full is street only; Municipality is a 3-digit code. Sale_Book/Sale_Page are the deed book/page of the most recent sale. No plat book field. A daily-edited plat layer exists at OpenData/DPLAT_Chatham/MapServer/6 but without assessor attributes.

Cherokee County

MapServer layer. Host moved: the old gis.cherokeega.com hostname now serves a *.cherokeecountyga.gov certificate (TLS name mismatch), so use gis.cherokeecountyga.gov. PIN is dashed ('14-0226-0014'); TIN is the space-padded tax ID ('14N22 006 N'), TINNoSpace the same without spaces. Property_Address is street only, mixed case ('1130 Bluffs Pkwy'). Deed book/page are zero-padded strings ('08642'/'00145'). Layer description says it can include deleted (historic) parcels, but every feature tested had ParcelType 0 and the count (~116k) matches the current roll. Owner is null on some exempt/public parcels (~850).

Clarke County

PARCEL_NO has a space, e.g. '171B1 H002'. PAR_ADD is situs street only ('301 COLLEGE AVE'). CITY/STATE/ZIP and OWNER_ADD are the OWNER'S mailing address, not the situs, so city_field is left blank; text fields are space-padded. No deed or plat book fields. The older AGOL copy (services2.arcgis.com/xSEULKvB31odt3XQ/.../Parcel) stopped updating in 2018; do not use it.

Clayton County

MapServer layer. PARCELID has a space, e.g. '05239 240004'; PIN2 is often null. SITEADDRES is street only ('9151 TARA BLVD'), SITECITY the situs city. Owner name has trailing spaces. PLATBOOK/PLATPAGE are blank strings on ~10% of parcels (populated on ~82,500). The 'Parcels - GA - Clayton' URL in public catalogs (weba.co.clayton.ga.us:5443) times out; this gis.claytoncountyga.gov host serves the same TaxAssessor/Parcels service.

Cobb County

MapServer layer. PIN is an 11-digit string with no separators, e.g. '16121820070' (PARID is identical). SITUS_ADDR is space-padded between parts ('100 CHEROKEE ST '), so normalize whitespace or use LIKE '100 %CHEROKEE%' when matching; ST_NUMBER holds the house number. No situs city (OWNER_CITY is the mailing city). No deed or plat book fields. Same server also answers at gis.cobbcounty.org.

Columbia County

MapServer layer id 1003. ParcelNum has a space, e.g. '072 045B'. Tax_Physical_Address is street only with trailing space ('630 RONALD REAGAN DR '). Deed/plat values are raw strings and can be placeholders ('00'/'000') or cabinet refs ('PC A' / '268#4'). Address points are layer 1054 of the same service. The 'Parcels - GA - Columbia' URL at mapsonline.columbiacountyga.gov no longer resolves; the AGOL 'Parcels_Columbia_County_GA' copy has PIN only and was last updated 2024.

Coweta County

ParcelNumber (= PID) is space-padded fixed-width, e.g. 'N04 0007 001', '036A 199'; match exactly or normalize whitespace. IMPORTANT: StreetAddress/City/State/Zip are the OWNER'S MAILING address, not the situs. The situs is split across HouseNumber + StreetDirection + StreetName + StreetType (e.g. 22 / 'E ' / 'BROAD' / 'ST'), all space-padded. Text fields are space-padded. No deed or plat fields. This is the parcel layer used in the county's own web maps; the older county servers (cccjcgiswa.coweta.ga.us, coweta-gis-web.coweta.ga.us) no longer resolve, and the 'WinGapParcels_DroneSense' view returns 0 features.

DeKalb County

PARCELID uses spaces, e.g. '15 246 03 001' (district, land lot, block, parcel). SITEADDRESS is the full one-line address incl. city/zip ('1300 Commerce Drive Decatur, GA 30030'); ADDRESS_NUMBER + FULL_STREET_NAME are split fields. Plat book/page populated on ~54k of ~246k parcels. No deed book/page field. Condo units have stacked (redundant) geometry. Census-geocoded street points can land in the right-of-way; test with a point inside the lot.

Douglas County

MapServer layer id is 15 (not 0). ParcelNo is 11 digits, no separators ('00500150059') = LL_DIST_SEC (7) + PARCEL (4). PropertyAddress is street only ('8700 HOSPITAL DR'). No deed or plat book fields. The same data at Layers/MapServer/13 (the one listed in public catalogs) returns 'Failed to execute query' on every query, so do not use it.

Fayette County

PARCEL_NO formats vary: 9 digits ('052303007') or space-padded ('0523 091'); PARCEL_KEY is a dashed form ('5-23-3-7'). single_line_address is the full one-line address incl. city/zip; parcels with several addresses hold a ';'-separated list (City too). Some PARCEL_NOs are split across 2+ polygon features (e.g. '0523 091'), so an APN query can return multiple polygons; union them. ~180 polygons have null PARCEL_NO. No owner, deed or plat fields. Do NOT use the older TaxParcels_public or 'Parcels-Deprecated' services in the same org (stale since 2019/2022).

Forsyth County

PARCELID is space-padded, e.g. 'C16 038' (three spaces); match exactly or normalize whitespace. SITEADDRESS is street only ('110 E MAIN ST'). The public layer has NO owner name field (PSTLADDRESS/PSTLCITY are the owner mailing address only). No deed or plat book fields; Link/TaxBillLink give assessor and tax-bill URLs. Condo units have stacked geometry.

Fulton County

ParcelID has a space after the 2-digit district, e.g. '14 007700061068'. Address is situs street only ('141 PRYOR ST SW'), no city; TaxDist is a tax-district code, not a city name. Owner has trailing spaces. No deed or plat book fields. maxRecordCount is 1000.

Gwinnett County

PIN has a space, e.g. '5143 256'; TAXPIN is 'R' + PIN ('R5143 256'). The layer's ADDRESS field holds only the house number ('75'), so no usable situs field on the polygons. Owner, full situs (LOCADDR/LOCCITY), legal and deed refs (DOC1REF) are in the non-spatial 'Tax Master Table' at .../Property_and_Tax/FeatureServer/3, joinable on PIN (verified: PIN '5143 256' -> 75 LANGLEY DR, LAWRENCEVILLE, owner GWINNETT COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONE). An older token-gated copy on gis3.gwinnettcounty.com is not usable.

Hall County

MapServer layer 1 ('Parcel Boundary') of GeneralTab; layer 2 is the same data unlabeled. PIN has a space, e.g. '08015 005028Q'. SITE_LOCATION spells out suffix/direction ('2875 BROWNS BRIDGE ROAD SOUTHWEST'), so normalize before matching. OWNER can have trailing comma/spaces ('HALL COUNTY, '). ~3,700 polygons have null STATUS (others 'P'). No deed or plat fields. The 'Parcels - GA - Hall' URL in public catalogs (webmap.hallcounty.org) fails TLS; this host is the one the county's own viewer uses.

Muscogee County

TaxPIN is space-separated, e.g. '032 019 006' (some source tables carry a trailing space; trim). ParcelType distinguishes 'Tax' (~70k), 'Tax (Condo)', 'Tax (Utilities)', 'Other'; 19 features carry a ParcelRetireDate, so filter ParcelRetireDate IS NULL for live parcels. No situs, owner, deed or plat fields. Layer id 302 and the '2027' name suggest it is replaced per digest year; the official 'CurrentYear' service (.../CurrentYear/FeatureServer/20, 2025 snapshot, same TaxPIN format) is the fallback and passed the same checks. The county's own gis.columbusga.org server timed out when tested.

Paulding County

GPIN is the tax parcel number in the dotted assessor format, e.g. '137.1.3.018.0000' (same pattern as qPublic and listing parcel IDs). HPIN is an alternate map number ('7920-02-53.00-000'); APIN is an integer key. No situs address, owner, deed or plat fields on the polygons. Address points with situs are layer 2 of the same service (fields Address, City, DBAName), useful to turn an address into a point. Layer id is 25. The 'Parcels - GA - Paulding' service at arcgis5.roktech.net is a vendor host and was down ('not started') when tested.

Richmond County

MapServer layer. pin is dashed ('047-1-265-00-0'); parcel_no is the same digits without dashes ('0471265000'). siteaddress is street only, mixed case, sometimes with unit/building ('535 Telfair St Bldg 3000'); site_citystzip holds 'Augusta, GA 30901'. deedpage and platpage are each ONE combined string 'BOOK PAGE' (e.g. '155 978', '209 1185'): split on whitespace, first token = book, second = page; often blank. Prefer this layer over layer 9 ('Parcels'), which has no address/owner and keeps retired parcels.

How to use it

• QGIS: Layer > Data Source Manager > ArcGIS REST Server, add a connection with the service URL (the endpoint above without the final /0), then add the layer. Filter to your area before exporting.
• ArcGIS Pro: Add Data > Data From Path, paste the endpoint.
• Direct query: append /query?geometry=LON,LAT&geometryType=esriGeometryPoint&inSR=4326&spatialRel=esriSpatialRelIntersects&outFields=*&f=geojson to get the parcel at a point.
• CAD: see getting a parcel into AutoCAD or Civil 3D.

Assessor parcel lines are for taxation and are often 5 to 50 ft off the legal boundary. Why.