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Thurston County Parcel Data Summary Information

Parcel Data Status

Status
Statewide Parcel Participator: yes
Assessor Office URL: http://www.co.thurston.wa.us/assessor/
Has GIS:
GIS Dept URL:
http://www.geodata.org/
Has IMS:
IMS URL:
http://www.geodata.org/parcelsrch.asp
Requires License:
License File:
http://www.geodata.org/disclaimer.htm
Requires Request:
Request File:
http://www.co.thurston.wa.us/pra/documents/tc-pra-request-form.pdf
Requires Fee:
Fee:
Acquire Method: 2015: Data available for $300 at http://www.geodata.org/order_digital.aspx

2019: Parcels from Rich Kim. Improvements information downloaded from Assessor. Assessor’s Property Table Extended (apte.mdb).

2025: Downloaded from Thurston County GeoData Center at: https://gisdata-thurston.opendata.arcgis.com/search?tags=Parcels
Last Updated: 2025-01-28 15:03:15
Primary Assessment Contact
Name: Steven Drew
Position: Assessor
Organization: Thurston County Assessor's Office
Address: 2000 Lakeridge Drive SW
City, St, Zip: Olympia, WA 98502
Phone: (360) 867-2200
Fax: (360) 867-2201
Email: drews@co.thurston.wa.us
Contact Last Updated: 2012-08-09 11:07:55
Primary GIS Contact
Name: Kelly Alfaro Haugen
Position:
Organization:
Address:
City, St, Zip: , WA
Phone: 360-754-4594 ext 7326
Fax:
Email: alfarok@co.thurston.wa.us
Contact Last Updated: 2010-01-15 15:13:30

Database Schema

The normalized Statewide Parcel Database consists of multiple related tables, relationship classes and lookup tables. Detailed information about the database schema can be found on the technical documentation page.

QA/QC

Introduction

QA/QC Process Description

QA/QC Procedure Descriptions

The following five Procedures were performed in this order on the data for each county.
  1. Removing Duplicate Parcels (PARCELS:DUPLICATE): There are two or more polygons representing a single parcel in the original data.  They have the same geometry and identical attribute information.  These are assumed to be multiple copies of the same parcel, and so duplicates are removed leaving a single polygon, and single set of attribute information in the final database.  This flag tells how many duplicates of the parcel were in the original data.
  2. Flattening Stacked Parcels (PARCELS:FLATTENED): There are two or more polygons representing a parcel in the original data, however, while sharing the same geometry, they have different attributes.  These are assumed to be multiple owners for the same parcel.  The polygon only needs to be in the final database a single time, but all original attribute information for the different owners needs to be retained.  This flag tells how many stacked polygons there were in the original data for each parcel.
  3. Creating Multipart Parcels (PARCELS:AGGREGATED): There are two or more polygons in the original data with different geometries but, identical attribute information.  It is assumed that these parcels are all owned by the same owner.  The original polygons are all retained as a single, multipart polygon, but duplicate versions of the attributes are removed.  Only a single copy of the attribute information is needed in the final database.  This flag tells how many parcels were aggregated into each multipart polygon.
  4. Removing Duplicate Taxrolls (TAXROLL:FLATTENED): Two or more parcels in a county have identical taxroll attributes. These attributes only need to be in the final database a single time. This flag records how many of the original parcels shared each set of taxroll attributes.
  5. Removing Duplicate Names (NAMES:FLATTENED): Two or more parcels in a county have the same name attributes in the original data. These attributes only need to be in the final database a single time. This flag records how many of the original parcels shared each set of name attributes.

Parcel Data Documentation (select a normalization date):

2009 Washington State Parcel Database


Data Normalization, Integration and Quality Control Notes

Integration Date: 2009-10-13
Integration Notes: New For 2009:
in 2007 PROP_TYPE --> PropType
in 2009 PROP_TYPE --> TaxStatus
TAXABLE --> TaxStatus
EXEMPT_TY --> TaxStatus

SITUS_CITY --> SiteAddressFull & SiteAddressCity
SITUS_ZIP --> SiteAddressFull
SITUS_STRE --> SiteAddressFull, SiteAddressNumber, SiteAddressStreetFullName

In 2007, CODE2 --> StateLandUseCD & SourceLandUseDescription. In 2009, CODE2 was renamed to USE_CODE.

Thurston County only provided value fields BLDG_VALUE, LAND_VALUE, TOTAL_VALU. For parcels in current use tax programs (those with StateLandUseCD values 83,88,94,95) these values represent the taxable values for the parcels. For parcels not in current use tax programs, these values represent the market values for the parcels. On Thurston County's website, there are market values for current use tax parcels, but these data were not provided to us. There were no taxable values provided for non-current use tax parcels (market and taxable values are likely the same).
QAQC Date: 2009-11-18
QAQC Notes: PolyID=434000105307; ProcParcelAggregated=2.
There are 2 polygons in original data with PARCLE_NO=81050003500 for both polygons. Aggregated correctly.

PolyID=434000106033; ProcTaxrollFlattened=2.
There are 2 polygons in original shapefile with PARCEL_NO=12931321900. Each had a taxroll record and were flattened into one. Taxroll flattened correctly.

PolyIDs=434000038692, 434000038692; ProcNameFlattened=3.
PARCEL_NO=74300200400, 11907410300 (2 polygons with this PARCEL_NO). There are 3 entries with same name/address in original data (STATHAKIS, CHRIST G). Names flattened correctly.


Tables

Name Notes
parcels.dbf

Attribute Normalization

Table Name Attribute Common Field Normalized Field Normalization Process
parcels.dbf ADDRESS1 Owner_Address_2 AddressLine2 Direct
parcels.dbf ADDRESS2 Owner_Address_3 AddressLine3 Direct
parcels.dbf BLDG_VALUE Building_Value MarketValueImprovements Where StateLandUseCD != 83, 88, 94,or 95
parcels.dbf BLDG_VALUE Building_Value TaxableValueImprovements Where StateLandUseCD = 83, 88, 94,or 95
parcels.dbf CITY Owner_Address_City AddressCity Direct
parcels.dbf COUNTRY Owner_Address_Country AddressCountry Direct
parcels.dbf EXEMPT_TY Exemption TaxStatus Concatenate PROP_TYPE, TAXABLE, EXEMPT_TY
parcels.dbf IN_CARE_OF Owner_Address_1 AddressLine1 Direct
parcels.dbf LAND_VALUE Land_Value MarketValueLand Where StateLandUseCD != 83, 88, 94,or 95
parcels.dbf LAND_VALUE Land_Value TaxableValueLand Where StateLandUseCD = 83, 88, 94,or 95
parcels.dbf LEGAL_DESC Legal_Description LegalDescription Direct
parcels.dbf OWNER_NAME Owner_Name Name.Name Direct; Owner
parcels.dbf PARCEL_NO Parcel_ID SourceParcelID Direct
parcels.dbf PARCEL_NO Parcel_ID AssessorURL Concatenate with: 'http://tcproperty.co.thurston.wa.us/propsql/basic.asp?pn='
parcels.dbf PROP_TYPE Property_Type TaxStatus Concatenate PROP_TYPE, TAXABLE, EXEMPT_TY
parcels.dbf SECTTIE Township_Range_Section Township Left 2= Range; Right 3, trim first character(s) = Section; Middle = Township
parcels.dbf SECTTIE Township_Range_Section Range Left 2= Range; Right 3, trim first character(s) = Section; Middle = Township
parcels.dbf SECTTIE Township_Range_Section Section Left 2= Range; Right 3, trim first character(s) = Section; Middle = Township
parcels.dbf SITUS_CITY Parcel_Address_City SiteAddressCity Direct
parcels.dbf SITUS_CITY Parcel_Address_City SiteAddressFull Concatenate SITUS_STRE, SITUS_CITY, SITUS_ZIP
parcels.dbf SITUS_STRE Parcel_Address SiteAddressFull Concatenate SITUS_STRE, SITUS_CITY, SITUS_ZIP
parcels.dbf SITUS_STRE Parcel_Address SiteAddressStreetFullName Split on space and take second through end as street.
parcels.dbf SITUS_STRE Parcel_Address SiteAddressNumber Split on space and take first as number.
parcels.dbf SITUS_ZIP Parcel_Address_Zip SiteAddressFull Concatenate SITUS_STRE, SITUS_CITY, SITUS_ZIP
parcels.dbf STATE Owner_Address_State AddressState Direct
parcels.dbf TAXABLE Tax_Status TaxStatus Concatenate PROP_TYPE, TAXABLE, EXEMPT_TY
parcels.dbf TCA Tax_Code_Area TaxCodeArea Direct
parcels.dbf TOTAL_ACRE Acres_Tabular TabularAcres Direct
parcels.dbf TOTAL_VALU Total_Value MarketValueTotal Where StateLandUseCD != 83, 88, 94,or 95
parcels.dbf TOTAL_VALU Total_Value TaxableValueTotal Where StateLandUseCD = 83, 88, 94,or 95
parcels.dbf USE_CODE Land_Use_Code StateLandUseCode Left 2, FME_SUBSTR(0,1)
parcels.dbf USE_CODE Land_Use_Code SourceLandUseDescription FME_SUBSTR(2, -1)
parcels.dbf ZIP Owner_Address_Zip AddressZip Direct

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