Howard County, IA Parcels & GIS Data

Howard County, IA parcel data: 13,546 property records with owner names, assessed values, land use, acreage, and addresses. Preview and download.

Land Records publishes Howard County, Iowa parcel data covering 13,546 property records.

This page documents parcel-level coverage for Howard County, Iowa. Each parcel record carries its boundary polygon (GIS geometry) along with attributes such as the parcel ID/APN, owner name and mailing address, situs (property) address, assessed land and improvement values, acreage, land-use and zoning codes, year built, and most recent sale price and date. Exact fill rates for Howard County are listed in the attribute-coverage table below. Preview the data in the interactive explorer, or download the complete Howard County property dataset.

Howard County is a county located in the US state of Iowa. As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,469. The county seat and the largest city is Cresco. The county was founded in 1851; it was named for General Tilghman Ashurst Howard, a Representative of Indiana.

FIPS 19089

Official county website: http://www.howard-county.com

The FIPS code for Howard County is 19089.

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Attribute coverage

Howard County contains 13,546 parcels in the current dataset. Column coverage is the percentage of those parcels for which the attribute is populated (non-NULL).

ColumnCoverageRecords populated
lrid100%13,546
parcelid99.9%13,538
parcelid265.4%8,855
ogparcelid99.9%13,538
ogparcelid265.4%8,855
parentid<0.1%0
stackid<0.1%0
geoid100%13,546
statefp100%13,546
countyfp100%13,546
countyname100%13,546
cousubfp100%13,546
cousubname100%13,546
tractce100%13,546
tractname100%13,546
taxacctnum<0.1%0
taxyear99.9%13,538
taxdistrict<0.1%0
usecode<0.1%0
usedesc<0.1%1
zoningcode<0.1%1
zoningdesc<0.1%0
numbldgs9.5%1,287
numunits<0.1%1
yearbuilt<0.1%1
numfloors<0.1%1
bldgsqft<0.1%1
bedrooms<0.1%0
halfbaths<0.1%0
fullbaths<0.1%0
imprvalue<0.1%1
landvalue<0.1%1
agvalue<0.1%1
totalvalue<0.1%1
taxacres<0.1%1
calcarea100%13,546
saleamt<0.1%1
saledate<0.1%0
ownertype99.9%13,531
ownername99.9%13,533
owneraddr<0.1%1
ownercity<0.1%1
ownerstate<0.1%1
ownerzip<0.1%1
parceladdr66.9%9,063
parcelcity48.6%6,581
parcelstate100%13,546
parcelzip100%13,546
legaldesc<0.1%1
township<0.1%0
section<0.1%0
qtrsection<0.1%0
range<0.1%0
plssdesc<0.1%0
book<0.1%0
page<0.1%0
block<0.1%1
lot<0.1%1
parceltype1.0%133
accesstype1.0%133
iucnclass0.7%94
placename2.7%368
placetype2.6%349
firmid<0.1%0
firmdate<0.1%0
fldzone<0.1%0
zonesubty<0.1%0
staticbfe<0.1%0
elevmin100%13,546
elevmax100%13,546
elevavg100%13,546
fireplaces<0.1%0
heating<0.1%0
heatfuel<0.1%0
cooling<0.1%0
foundation<0.1%0
roofcover<0.1%0
siding<0.1%0
bldgtype<0.1%0
naicscode0.7%91
frsid0.1%16
dfrurl0.1%16
caapermit0.1%16
cwapermit0.1%16
rcrapermit0.1%16
updated100%13,546
centroidx100%13,546
centroidy100%13,546
surfpointx100%13,546
surfpointy100%13,546
geom100%13,546
extras<0.1%0
lrversion100%13,546

Schema mapping

How source columns from the acquired Howard County GIS layers map into the harmonized entity schemas and assemble into the published parcel table, alongside supplemented fields (elevation, flood zone) and deterministic columns.

Schema mapping — Howard County, Iowa (19089) 1 entity · most recent acquisition per entity · generated 2026-07-13 direct column transformed (expression) geometry extras json supplemented determined ALL ENTITIES → FINAL PARCEL SCHEMA Harmonized entity columns assemble into publish.parcel_layer — matched by column name. Supplemented fields show their fill rate in this county. SOURCE COLUMNS HARMONIZED ENTITIES PUBLISH.PARCEL_LAYER ADDRESS landmark anumber st_name sub_id1 zip ctu_name postcomm co_name state_code geom 44 cols ⇢ near house_number road unit postcode suburb city state_district state geom extras determined · ground truth 100% lrid 100% geoid 100% statefp 100% countyfp 100% countyname 100% cousubfp 100% cousubname 100% tractce 100% tractname 100% updated 100% lrversion geom · derived from geometry geom dem.us_1m · USGS 1m DEM 100% elevmin 100% elevmax 100% elevavg supplemented · derived / other pipelines 100% parcelid 65.4% parcelid2 100% ogparcelid 65.4% ogparcelid2 100% taxyear 100% ownertype 100% ownername 66.9% parceladdr 100% parcelstate 100% parcelzip lrid parcelid parcelid2 ogparcelid ogparcelid2 geoid statefp countyfp countyname cousubfp cousubname tractce tractname taxyear calcarea ownertype ownername parceladdr parcelstate parcelzip elevmin elevmax elevavg updated centroidx centroidy surfpointx surfpointy geom extras lrversion publish.parcel_layer columns not fed by these sources (62) — empty or below 50% fill in this county parentid, stackid, taxacctnum, taxdistrict, usecode, usedesc, zoningcode, zoningdesc, numbldgs, numunits, yearbuilt, numfloors, bldgsqft bedrooms, halfbaths, fullbaths, imprvalue, landvalue, agvalue, totalvalue, taxacres, saleamt, saledate, owneraddr, ownercity, ownerstate ownerzip, parcelcity, legaldesc, township, section, qtrsection, range, plssdesc, book, page, block, lot, parceltype, accesstype, iucnclass placename, placetype, firmid, firmdate, fldzone, zonesubty, staticbfe, fireplaces, heating, heatfuel, cooling, foundation, roofcover, siding bldgtype, naicscode, frsid, dfrurl, caapermit, cwapermit, rcrapermit ADDRESS 10 mapped · 44 kept in extras · 11 unmapped (NULL) SOURCE COLUMNS HARMONIZED → ADDRESS landmark anumber st_name sub_id1 zip ctu_name postcomm co_name state_code geom near house_number road unit postcode suburb city state_district state geom extras · 44 source columns preserved as json add_id, add_id_loc, anumberpre, anumbersuf, st_pre_mod st_pre_dir, st_pre_typ, st_pre_sep, st_pos_typ, st_pos_dir st_pos_mod, sub_type1, sub_type2, sub_id2, zip4, ctu_id_txt co_code, loc_desc, residence, mailable, state_pin, place_loc cen_geo, uni_wo_sub, longitude, latitude, usng_code gis911poc, esn, psap_code, msag_c, verror_911, lst_predir lst_name, lst_type, lst_posdir, status, eff_date, ret_date source, aauthority, edit_org, edit_date, comments extras not present in source — filled with NULL (11) house, category, level, staircase, entrance, po_box, city_district, island, country_region, country, world_region

Neighboring counties

Parcel data for counties bordering Howard County:

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