Census of US county parcel records

~ nelsonminar

Fairview Industries has a great map of which US counties publish GIS parcel data. Mike got the shapefile for the database. I went ahead and extracted just the URLs and county names to a convenient CSV file.

The file lists a total of 3214 counties. 2022 have ViewURLs defined and 590 have DownURLs defined.

Here’s my extractor code.

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import fiona, sys, csv

out = csv.writer(open('extracted.csv', 'w', encoding='utf-8'))

out.writerow(('FIPS', 'State', 'County', 'ViewURL', 'DownURL'))

count = 0
gisInvLks = 0
viewUrls = 0
downUrls = 0
with fiona.drivers():
    with fiona.open('counties.shp') as counties:
        for county in counties:
            props = county['properties']
            # Fix mojibake; Fiona read these strings as ISO-Latin-1 but they are actually UTF-8
            cntyNm = props['CntyNm'].encode('latin_1')
            cntyString = cntyNm.decode('utf-8')
            out.writerow((props['StCntyFIPS'], props['StNm'], cntyString, props['ViewURL'], props['DownURL']))
            count += 1
            if props['ViewURL']:
                viewUrls += 1
            if props['DownURL']:
                downUrls += 1

sys.stderr.write('%d rows\n%d ViewURLs\n%d DownURLs\n' % (count, viewUrls, downUrls))