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for Buyers

Check a property before you commit.

  • See flood risk, soil, and access
  • Spot problems before you are locked in
  • Bring real questions to the seller

for Owners

Find out what the county has on file.

  • Your documents, checked against the record
  • Any conflict gets flagged, not buried
  • Handle it before it costs you a sale

for Brokers

Answer buyer questions before they ask.

  • Flood, access and easements, with sources
  • One report to back up your listing
  • A PDF you can send right away

What a report tells you

What the public record holds on a property, gathered in one place.

Summary

The whole property, read in one page.

Every layer weighed together: the acreage, where the parcel stands on flood, and how much of it is gentle enough to build on. The map carries all of it at once, and the report writes out what it means.

A parcel map with slope shading, soil units and the parcel boundary drawn over aerial imagery, above a strip reading 56.47 acres, Zone X low risk, 31 percent low slope

Soil

What the ground will take.

Every soil unit under the parcel and how much of the acreage it covers, rated for building, septic, agriculture and grazing. A septic field that will not drain is a soil fact before it is a surprise.

USDA SSURGO
A soil map of a parcel with each mapped unit labelled and outlined over aerial imagery

Wetlands

Where the water sits, and what it costs you.

How much of the parcel is mapped wetland, where the line runs, and whether building across it would need a federal permit. On this one it is 41 percent of the ground.

USFWS NWI
A parcel outlined on aerial imagery with a tidal wetland overlay across its northern half, above a strip reading 41 percent coverage and Section 404 likely

Road access

How you get to it, and who maintains that.

Every road touching the parcel with its class and how much frontage it gives, and the distance to the nearest one when none of them touch. Access is the question a listing photo cannot answer.

US Census TIGER/Line
A parcel boundary on aerial imagery with the adjoining road drawn in orange, above a strip reading 0.6 miles total frontage on Black Oak Road, and a table listing two adjacent local roads with their frontage

Topography

How steep it is, and where it is not.

Elevation range, average slope and the share of the parcel gentle enough to build on, drawn as slope shading and contours you can read against the boundary.

USGS 3DEP
A parcel outlined over slope shading and contour lines, the steepest ground drawn in red down its western side

Facts

What the county has on file, in one place.

Zoning and land use, year built, living area, assessed and land value, the legal description. Off the assessor’s own record, laid out to read instead of hunted through a county portal.

County Assessor
Assessor facts under Structure — built 2015, 2,288 square feet of living area, two stories, three bedrooms — each row marked as coming from the assessor

History

What happened here, year by year.

Every tax levy on record, and the sales and transfers on the same timeline. Where the report can explain a jump it says so — this one is the year a new house first reached the assessor’s books.

County Assessor
A timeline filtered to tax levies, running from $5,649 in 2026 back to $3,266 in 2015, the last row noting a sharp increase consistent with a new residential structure

Satellite

The same parcel, years apart.

Every vintage on file, and any two of them side by side. A clearing, a timber harvest or a building that went up without a permit record shows as a change you can see rather than a claim.

USDA NAIP
One parcel under two vintages of aerial imagery split down the middle, 2011 on the left under closed canopy and 2022 on the right, each half labelled with its year

And in the same report

A parcel outlined on aerial imagery labelled Zone X, above a strip reading Zone X and not in an SFHA, and a table giving the zone, risk, share of parcel and area

Flood zone

Whether the federal map puts you in a floodplain.

The zone, how much of the parcel it covers, and whether flood insurance is federally required.

FEMA NFHL
A parcel on aerial imagery with the adjoining bay and its shoreline drawn in blue, above a strip counting on-parcel water features and naming the nearest one

Hydrography

Streams, ponds and shoreline, on and near it.

What surface water crosses the parcel, and what sits close enough to bring setbacks with it.

USGS NHD
A parcel on aerial imagery with nearby transmission infrastructure marked, above a strip giving the distance to the nearest power line

Utilities

How far the power lines are.

Transmission infrastructure near the parcel and the distance to it — the first cost of building anywhere remote.

HIFLD
A table of four recorded mineral sites within five miles, each with its commodities, past-producer status and distance, above a line naming the commodities in the area

Minerals

What has been dug nearby.

Recorded mineral sites within five miles — what was worked, whether it still produces, and how far off it sits.

USGS MRDS + SGMC
A panel of web research findings about a county’s critical-areas review, shoreline program and comprehensive plan, each stating the source it came from

Web research

What the county has said about land like yours.

Permit rules, ordinances and plans found by reading the county’s own pages — each finding carrying where it came from.

Web research

And what you do with it

Export

Take it away as a PDF.

The whole report as one document — every section, every map, the analyst’s letter, and the accuracy notice on every page. Send it to a lender, a surveyor, or the person you are buying from.

Refresh

Run it again when the record moves.

A county reassesses, a sale records, or the analysis itself gains a layer. Each report states the version that wrote it and the version a refresh would move it to, so re-running is a decision rather than a guess.

Share

Hand someone a link, not a login.

Publish a read-only link like the four on this page. Whoever holds it reads the report without an account, nothing lists it, and you can revoke it whenever you want.

Sample reports

Pick a property — no account needed. Each one is a real report on a different kind of property.

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  • Vacant lot in Deming, New Mexico 88030, ≈0.5 acres
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  • Farmland in Prior Lake, Minnesota 55372, ≈95.93 acres
  • Coastal lot in Wasilla, Alaska 99623, ≈1.22 acres
  • Timberland in Archer, Florida 32618, 56.99 acres
  • Pasture land in Lone Oak, Texas 75453, ≈63.97 acres
  • Riverfront home in Cascade, Montana 59421, 3.58 acres
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