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New on County Coverage Pages: Schema-Mapping Diagrams
County documentation pages now include schema-mapping diagrams showing exactly how each county's source GIS columns are harmonized into the published parcel schema — including supplemented USGS and FEMA fields, deterministic columns, and per-county fill rates.
Read more →Location, Location, Location: How LandRecords Helps Lower the Cost of Living
The oldest rule in real estate is location, location, location — and location is, at its core, a data problem. Behind every home that gets built and every property that changes hands sits a stack of decisions: where to…
Read more →The Web API Now Serves Weekly Dataset Updates
Starting this month, the data behind our hosted web services is refreshed every week . If you use the Landrecords API — the tile services, WMS/WFS parcel lookups, or the coverage map — the parcels you query now reflect…
Read more →Introducing the Landrecords.us Layer Assistant for Chrome
A surprising amount of public land data is hiding in plain sight. Open a county’s GIS portal, a state parcel viewer, or a municipal zoning map, and the page is quietly loading authoritative geospatial layers — tax…
Read more →From PDF to Parcels: Digitizing the Plat Maps of Cornish, Maine
Most of the parcels in our nationwide dataset begin life as a GIS export — a shapefile or a feature service a county hands us, already drawn as machine-readable geometry. Cornish, Maine was not one of those counties.…
Read more →Parcel Dataset Release Q2 2026
The Q2 2026 release of the Land Records Nationwide Parcel Dataset is here. This release appears as 2026.2 in the lrversion field, and it is the biggest schema expansion we’ve shipped in a single release: 40 new…
Read more →Important Update: Parcel Dataset Bulk Downloads Transitioning away from Shapefiles
We are writing to announce an important update regarding how we distribute our bulk parcel dataset. Effective in the 2026.2 release coming up in April, we will no longer be offering the Shapefile format for bulk…
Read more →Search any property in the US from our homepage!
Today we’re excited to announce a new feature that allows anyone to generate a report for any parcel in the United States. Just visit our homepage and type in the Parcel ID (also known as APN, AIN, parcel number, etc).…
Read more →Parcel Dataset Release Q1 2026: FREE Edition
* I need to charge $1.00 for the download, I’ll explain why later in this post. Our mission is to make quality property data accessible to everyone. In keeping with this mission (and to increase awareness of this…
Read more →Parcel Dataset Release Q4 2025
The year 2025 continues to be a big year for landrecords.us customers, and our Q4 release is no different! This is the last layer release of 2025. We are thrilled to announce the release of the latest update to our…
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