McDowell County, NC Parcels & GIS Data

McDowell County, NC parcel data: 32,886 property records with owner names, assessed values, land use, acreage, and addresses. Preview and download.

Land Records publishes McDowell County, North Carolina parcel data covering 32,886 property records.

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

McDowell County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 44,578. Its county seat is Marion.

FIPS 37111

Official county website: https://www.mcdowellgov.com/

The FIPS code for McDowell County is 37111.

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Attribute coverage

McDowell County contains 32,886 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%32,886
parcelid99.9%32,856
parcelid299.8%32,804
ogparcelid99.9%32,855
ogparcelid299.5%32,730
parentid<0.1%0
stackid<0.1%0
geoid100%32,886
statefp100%32,886
countyfp100%32,886
countyname100%32,886
cousubfp100%32,886
cousubname100%32,886
tractce100%32,886
tractname100%32,886
taxacctnum0.3%107
taxyear100%32,886
taxdistrict99.4%32,680
usecode0.5%163
usedesc4.7%1,534
zoningcode11.0%3,612
zoningdesc11.0%3,603
numbldgs100%32,886
numunits59.8%19,679
yearbuilt80.0%26,294
numfloors79.8%26,259
bldgsqft<0.1%0
bedrooms<0.1%0
halfbaths<0.1%0
fullbaths<0.1%0
imprvalue100%32,876
landvalue100%32,876
agvalue87.4%28,731
totalvalue100%32,880
taxacres99.3%32,662
calcarea100%32,886
saleamt<0.1%0
saledate97.0%31,902
ownertype99.5%32,726
ownername99.5%32,726
owneraddr99.1%32,590
ownercity98.6%32,416
ownerstate98.5%32,393
ownerzip98.8%32,475
parceladdr91.4%30,050
parcelcity1.3%441
parcelstate100%32,886
parcelzip100%32,886
legaldesc82.9%27,253
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
parceltype0.3%113
accesstype1.0%342
iucnclass0.9%299
placename4.0%1,312
placetype3.9%1,297
firmid100%32,886
firmdate100%32,886
fldzone100%32,886
zonesubty97.8%32,153
staticbfe<0.1%3
elevmin99.2%32,633
elevmax99.2%32,633
elevavg99.2%32,633
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
naicscode13.0%4,263
frsid<0.1%1
dfrurl<0.1%1
caapermit<0.1%1
cwapermit<0.1%1
rcrapermit<0.1%1
updated100%32,886
centroidx100%32,886
centroidy100%32,886
surfpointx100%32,886
surfpointy100%32,886
geom100%32,886
extras100%32,886
ownerlist79.1%25,998
placefp19.1%6,287
zoningurl11.0%3,612
lbcsactivity15.4%5,049
lbcsfunction14.9%4,905
lbcstype52.8%17,349
lbcscharacter61.5%20,239
lbcsownership99.5%32,738
sourceurl<0.1%0

Schema mapping

How source columns from the acquired McDowell 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 — McDowell County, North Carolina (37111) 2 entities · most recent acquisition per entity · generated 2026-10-10 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 district_n url geom 8 cols ⇢ zoningcode zoningdesc sourceurl 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 99.2% elevmin 99.2% elevmax 99.2% elevavg s_fld_haz_ar · FEMA NFHL 100% fldzone 97.8% zonesubty 0.0% staticbfe 100% firmdate 100% firmid supplemented · derived / other pipelines 59.8% numunits 79.8% numfloors 87.4% agvalue 79.1% ownerlist 52.8% lbcstype 61.5% lbcscharacter 100% lbcsownership lrid parcelid parcelid2 ogparcelid ogparcelid2 geoid statefp countyfp countyname cousubfp cousubname tractce tractname taxyear taxdistrict usecode usedesc zoningcode zoningdesc 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 lbcstype lbcscharacter lbcsownership sourceurl publish.parcel_layer columns not fed by these sources (40) — empty or below 50% fill in this county parentid, stackid, taxacctnum, 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, zoningurl, lbcsactivity, lbcsfunction 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 4 mapped · 8 kept in extras · 5 unmapped (NULL) SOURCE COLUMNS HARMONIZED → ZONING zone_id district_n url geom zoningcode zoningdesc sourceurl geom extras · 8 source columns preserved as json area, perimeter, mar_zone_, mar_zone_i, acres, hectares piclink, globalid extras not present in source — filled with NULL (5) zoningtype, ordinance, setbacks, restrictions, notes

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Frequently asked questions

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

Land Records publishes a McDowell 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 McDowell County, NC dataset as a GeoPackage or CSV.

How many parcels are in McDowell County, NC?

The current dataset contains 32,886 parcel records for McDowell County, NC, each with its boundary geometry and assessor attributes.

What is the FIPS code for McDowell County, NC?

The FIPS code for McDowell County, NC is 37111.

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

Each McDowell 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 McDowell County, NC parcel data free?

You can preview McDowell 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 McDowell County, NC have an official GIS or property records website?

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

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