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Watauga County, NC Parcels & GIS Data

Watauga County, NC parcel data: 47,232 property records with owner names, assessed values, land use, acreage, and addresses. Preview and download.

Land Records publishes Watauga County, North Carolina parcel data covering 47,232 property records.

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

Watauga County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The population was 54,086 at the 2020 census. Its county seat and largest community is Boone.

FIPS 37189

Official county website: http://www.wataugacounty.org

The FIPS code for Watauga County is 37189.

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Attribute coverage

Watauga County contains 47,232 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%47,232
parcelid98.8%46,652
parcelid298.7%46,624
ogparcelid99.7%47,077
ogparcelid299.6%47,027
parentid<0.1%0
stackid<0.1%0
geoid100%47,232
statefp100%47,232
countyfp100%47,232
countyname100%47,232
cousubfp100%47,232
cousubname100%47,232
tractce100%47,232
tractname100%47,232
taxacctnum<0.1%3
taxyear100%47,232
taxdistrict98.1%46,337
usecode98.4%46,479
usedesc99.4%46,968
zoningcode8.1%3,832
zoningdesc34.7%16,378
numbldgs100%47,232
numunits56.9%26,878
yearbuilt98.4%46,494
numfloors82.8%39,102
bldgsqft<0.1%0
bedrooms<0.1%0
halfbaths<0.1%0
fullbaths<0.1%0
imprvalue100%47,232
landvalue100%47,232
agvalue82.7%39,073
totalvalue100%47,232
taxacres99.5%46,983
calcarea100%47,232
saleamt<0.1%0
saledate99.8%47,141
ownertype98.8%46,652
ownername98.8%46,652
owneraddr98.5%46,502
ownercity98.5%46,533
ownerstate98.5%46,539
ownerzip98.5%46,540
parceladdr60.8%28,700
parcelcity6.7%3,150
parcelstate100%47,232
parcelzip100%47,232
legaldesc84.2%39,775
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
parceltype0.6%279
accesstype1.1%539
iucnclass0.9%408
placename4.3%2,008
placetype4.1%1,960
firmid100%47,220
firmdate100%47,220
fldzone100%47,220
zonesubty98.1%46,317
staticbfe<0.1%0
elevmin99.7%47,075
elevmax99.7%47,075
elevavg99.7%47,075
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
naicscode12.7%5,985
frsid<0.1%1
dfrurl<0.1%1
caapermit<0.1%1
cwapermit<0.1%1
rcrapermit<0.1%1
updated100%47,231
centroidx100%47,232
centroidy100%47,232
surfpointx100%47,232
surfpointy100%47,232
geom100%47,232
extras100%47,232
ownerlist76.6%36,186
placefp30.7%14,479
zoningurl6.0%2,813
lbcsactivity91.9%43,383
lbcsfunction91.0%42,996
lbcstype95.0%44,882
lbcscharacter95.5%45,083
lbcsownership98.2%46,371
sourceurl<0.1%0

Schema mapping

How source columns from the acquired Watauga 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 — Watauga County, North Carolina (37189) 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 geom zoneabbrev zoneclass id town annexationdate geom zoningcode zoningdesc 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 100% elevmin 100% elevmax 100% elevavg s_fld_haz_ar · FEMA NFHL 100% fldzone 98.1% zonesubty 100% firmdate 100% firmid supplemented · derived / other pipelines 56.9% numunits 82.8% numfloors 82.7% agvalue 76.6% ownerlist 91.9% lbcsactivity 91.0% lbcsfunction 95.0% lbcstype 95.5% lbcscharacter 98.2% 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 elevmin elevmax elevavg updated centroidx centroidy surfpointx surfpointy geom extras ownerlist lbcsactivity lbcsfunction lbcstype lbcscharacter lbcsownership 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, staticbfe, fireplaces, heating, heatfuel, cooling, foundation, roofcover siding, bldgtype, naicscode, frsid, dfrurl, caapermit, cwapermit, rcrapermit, placefp, zoningurl, 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 4 mapped · 3 transformed · 6 unmapped (NULL) SOURCE COLUMNS HARMONIZED → ZONING geom zoneabbrev zoneclass id town annexationdate geom zoningcode NULLIF(zoneabbrev, '')::text zoningdesc NULLIF(zoneclass, '')::text extras json_build_object( 'id', NULLIF(id::text, ''), 'town', NULLIF(t… not present in source — filled with NULL (6) zoningtype, ordinance, setbacks, restrictions, notes, sourceurl

Neighboring counties

Parcel data for counties bordering Watauga County:

Frequently asked questions

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

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

How many parcels are in Watauga County, NC?

The current dataset contains 47,232 parcel records for Watauga County, NC, each with its boundary geometry and assessor attributes.

What is the FIPS code for Watauga County, NC?

The FIPS code for Watauga County, NC is 37189.

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

Each Watauga 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 Watauga County, NC parcel data free?

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

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

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