Burke County, NC Parcels & GIS Data

Burke County, NC parcel data: 60,409 property records with owner names, assessed values, land use, acreage, and addresses. Preview and download.

Land Records publishes Burke County, North Carolina parcel data covering 60,409 property records.

This page documents parcel-level coverage for Burke County, North Carolina. 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 Burke County are listed in the attribute-coverage table below. Preview the data in the interactive explorer, or download the complete Burke County property dataset.

Burke County is a county in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is part of the state's western mountain region, containing sections of the Blue Ridge Mountains including the Linville Gorge and South Mountains. As of the 2020 census, its population was 87,570.

FIPS 37023

Official county website: https://www.burkenc.org/

The FIPS code for Burke County is 37023.

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Attribute coverage

Burke County contains 60,409 parcels in the current dataset. Column coverage is the percentage of those parcels for which the attribute is populated (non-NULL). For the LBCS columns, only real classifications count: the to-be-determined and not-applicable placeholder codes are excluded.

ColumnCoverageRecords populated
lrid100%60,409
parcelid99.7%60,245
parcelid297.9%59,154
ogparcelid99.7%60,242
ogparcelid297.5%58,890
parentid<0.1%0
stackid<0.1%0
geoid100%60,409
statefp100%60,409
countyfp100%60,409
countyname100%60,409
cousubfp100%60,409
cousubname100%60,409
tractce100%60,409
tractname100%60,409
taxacctnum92.8%56,061
taxyear100%60,409
taxdistrict99.5%60,092
usecode4.5%2,727
usedesc97.9%59,144
zoningcode66.0%39,884
zoningdesc<0.1%0
numbldgs100%60,409
numunits69.0%41,706
yearbuilt90.1%54,406
numfloors81.6%49,287
bldgsqft<0.1%0
bedrooms<0.1%0
halfbaths<0.1%0
fullbaths<0.1%0
imprvalue99.7%60,221
landvalue99.7%60,221
agvalue90.5%54,662
totalvalue99.7%60,222
taxacres99.2%59,915
calcarea100%60,409
saleamt<0.1%0
saledate<0.1%15
ownertype99.7%60,209
ownername99.7%60,209
owneraddr99.6%60,178
ownercity99.2%59,901
ownerstate96.9%58,521
ownerzip96.9%58,523
parceladdr97.8%59,060
parcelcity97.4%58,815
parcelstate100%60,409
parcelzip100%60,409
legaldesc97.8%59,052
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%0
lot<0.1%0
parceltype0.5%292
accesstype0.7%431
iucnclass0.6%354
placename3.7%2,236
placetype3.7%2,217
firmid100%60,409
firmdate100%60,409
fldzone100%60,409
zonesubty98.4%59,461
staticbfe<0.1%5
elevmin99.5%60,106
elevmax99.5%60,106
elevavg99.5%60,106
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
naicscode10.6%6,419
frsid<0.1%0
dfrurl<0.1%0
caapermit<0.1%0
cwapermit<0.1%0
rcrapermit<0.1%0
updated100%60,409
centroidx100%60,409
centroidy100%60,409
surfpointx100%60,409
surfpointy100%60,409
geom100%60,409
extras100%60,409
ownerlist87.2%52,694
placefp32.8%19,789
zoningurl64.1%38,742
lbcsactivity97.0%58,581
lbcsfunction88.0%53,174
lbcstype97.6%58,977
lbcscharacter99.1%59,856
lbcsownership99.7%60,238
sourceurl<0.1%0

Schema mapping

How source columns from the acquired Burke 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 — Burke County, North Carolina (37023) 2 entities · most recent acquisition per entity · generated 2026-10-04 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 PARCEL parno altparno parusecode parusecd2 parusedesc parusedsc2 struct structyear improvval landval parval recareatx recareano gisacres saledate ownname ownfrst ownlast ownname2 mailadd maddpref maddrno maddstname maddstr maddstsuf maddsttyp mcity mstate mzip siteadd saddpref saddno saddstname saddstr saddstsuf saddsttyp scity sstate stname szip legdecfull revisedate geom cntyname munit sunit multistruc saledatetx parvaltype owntype sourceref sourcedate sourcedatx subdivisio nparno cntyfips stfips stcntyfips gnisid sourceagnt transfdate revdatetx reviseyear mapref subowntype subsurfown structno presentval st_area_shape_ st_perimeter_shape_ parcelid parcelid2 usecode usedesc numbldgs yearbuilt imprvalue landvalue totalvalue taxacres saledate ownername owneraddr ownercity ownerstate ownerzip parceladdr parcelcity parcelstate parcelzip legaldesc updated geom taxdistrict extras ZONING zone_id genzoning geom 7 cols ⇢ zoningcode zoningtype geom extras determined · ground truth 100% lrid 100% geoid 100% statefp 100% countyfp 100% countyname 100% cousubfp 100% cousubname 100% tractce 100% tractname 100% taxyear geom · derived from geometry geom dem.us_1m · USGS 1m DEM 99.5% elevmin 99.5% elevmax 99.5% elevavg s_fld_haz_ar · FEMA NFHL 100% fldzone 98.4% zonesubty 0.0% staticbfe 100% firmdate 100% firmid supplemented · derived / other pipelines 92.8% taxacctnum 69.0% numunits 81.6% numfloors 90.5% agvalue 87.2% ownerlist 64.1% zoningurl 97.0% lbcsactivity 88.0% lbcsfunction 97.6% lbcstype 99.1% lbcscharacter 100% lbcsownership lrid parcelid parcelid2 ogparcelid ogparcelid2 geoid statefp countyfp countyname cousubfp cousubname tractce tractname taxacctnum taxyear taxdistrict usecode usedesc zoningcode numbldgs numunits yearbuilt numfloors imprvalue landvalue agvalue totalvalue taxacres calcarea saledate ownertype ownername owneraddr ownercity ownerstate ownerzip parceladdr parcelcity parcelstate parcelzip legaldesc firmid firmdate fldzone zonesubty staticbfe elevmin elevmax elevavg updated centroidx centroidy surfpointx surfpointy geom extras ownerlist zoningurl lbcsactivity lbcsfunction lbcstype lbcscharacter lbcsownership publish.parcel_layer columns not fed by these sources (38) — empty or below 50% fill in this county parentid, stackid, zoningdesc, bldgsqft, bedrooms, halfbaths, fullbaths, saleamt, township, section, qtrsection, range, plssdesc, book, page block, lot, parceltype, accesstype, iucnclass, placename, placetype, fireplaces, heating, heatfuel, cooling, foundation, roofcover, siding bldgtype, naicscode, frsid, dfrurl, caapermit, cwapermit, rcrapermit, placefp, sourceurl PARCEL 25 mapped · 21 transformed · 30 unmapped (NULL) SOURCE COLUMNS HARMONIZED → PARCEL parno altparno parusecode parusecd2 parusedesc parusedsc2 struct structyear improvval landval parval recareatx recareano gisacres saledate ownname ownfrst ownlast ownname2 mailadd maddpref maddrno maddstname maddstr maddstsuf maddsttyp mcity mstate mzip siteadd saddpref saddno saddstname saddstr saddstsuf saddsttyp scity sstate stname szip legdecfull revisedate geom cntyname munit sunit multistruc saledatetx parvaltype owntype sourceref sourcedate sourcedatx subdivisio nparno cntyfips stfips stcntyfips gnisid sourceagnt transfdate revdatetx reviseyear mapref subowntype subsurfown structno presentval st_area_shape_ st_perimeter_shape_ parcelid NULLIF(TRIM(parno), '')::text parcelid2 NULLIF(TRIM(altparno), '')::text usecode COALESCE( NULLIF(TRIM(parusecode), '')::text, NULLIF(TRIM(parus… usedesc COALESCE( NULLIF(TRIM(parusedesc), '')::text, NULLIF(TRIM(parus… numbldgs CASE WHEN UPPER(TRIM(struct)) = 'Y' THEN '1'::text WHEN UPPER(T… yearbuilt NULLIF(structyear, 0)::text imprvalue landvalue totalvalue taxacres COALESCE( NULLIF(TRIM(recareatx), '')::text, CASE WHEN recarean… saledate CASE WHEN saledate IS NOT NULL AND saledate > 0 THEN to_timesta… ownername NULLIF(TRIM(concat_ws('; ', COALESCE( NULLIF(TRIM(ownname), '')… owneraddr COALESCE( NULLIF(TRIM(mailadd), '')::text, NULLIF(TRIM(concat_w… ownercity NULLIF(TRIM(mcity), '')::text ownerstate NULLIF(TRIM(mstate), '')::text ownerzip NULLIF(TRIM(mzip), '')::text parceladdr COALESCE( NULLIF(TRIM(siteadd), '')::text, NULLIF(TRIM(concat_w… parcelcity NULLIF(TRIM(scity), '')::text parcelstate COALESCE( NULLIF(TRIM(sstate), '')::text, NULLIF(TRIM(stname), … parcelzip NULLIF(TRIM(szip), '')::text legaldesc NULLIF(TRIM(legdecfull), '')::text updated CASE WHEN revisedate IS NOT NULL AND revisedate > 0 THEN to_tim… geom taxdistrict NULLIF(TRIM(cntyname), '')::text extras (json_build_object( 'munit', munit::text, 'sunit', sunit::text,… not present in source — filled with NULL (30) taxacctnum, taxyear, zoningcode, zoningdesc, numunits, numfloors, bldgsqft, bedrooms, halfbaths, fullbaths, agvalue, saleamt, township, section qtrsection, range, plssdesc, book, page, block, lot, sourceurl, parentid, heatfuel, fireplaces, heating, cooling, foundation, roofcover, siding ZONING 3 mapped · 7 kept in extras · 6 unmapped (NULL) SOURCE COLUMNS HARMONIZED → ZONING zone_id genzoning geom zoningcode zoningtype geom extras · 7 source columns preserved as json area, perimeter, burkzone_, burkzone_i, city_name, land_use acres extras not present in source — filled with NULL (6) zoningdesc, ordinance, setbacks, restrictions, notes, sourceurl

Neighboring counties

Parcel data for counties bordering Burke County:

Frequently asked questions

Where can I find Burke County, NC parcel and GIS data?

Land Records publishes a Burke County, NC parcel dataset in which every parcel carries its boundary polygon (GIS geometry) along with ownership, assessed value, land use, acreage, and sale history. Preview it in the interactive explorer on this page, or download the full Burke County, NC dataset as a GeoPackage or CSV.

How many parcels are in Burke County, NC?

The current dataset contains 60,409 parcel records for Burke County, NC, each with its boundary geometry and assessor attributes.

What is the FIPS code for Burke County, NC?

The FIPS code for Burke County, NC is 37023.

What information does each Burke County, NC parcel record include?

Each Burke County, NC parcel record includes 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 the most recent sale price and date — plus the parcel boundary polygon. Per-attribute fill rates are listed in the coverage table on this page.

Is Burke County, NC parcel data free?

You can preview Burke County, NC parcels for free in the interactive explorer. The complete dataset is available as a one-time download or through the nationwide parcel web service; see the download options on this page for current pricing.

Does Burke County, NC have an official GIS or property records website?

Yes — the official Burke County, NC government website is linked in the county details above. Land Records standardizes Burke County, NC assessor and recorder records into a single nationwide parcel schema with GIS boundary geometry.

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