This file geodatabase contains parcel data including plat boundaries, tax parcels, easements and road right of ways. Attributed Parcel Point and Polygon data represent property descriptions (legal descriptions) and land ownership in Ramsey County joined to tax parcels.

The following links can be used to obtain individual metadata pages:

Attributed Parcel Point: plan_attributedparcelpoint.html
Attributed Parcel Poly: plan_attributedparcelpoly.html
Common Interest: plan_commoninterest.html
Subdivision: plan_subdivision.html
Tax Parcels: plan_taxparcel.html
Manufactured Home: plan_manufacturedhome.html
Personal Property: plan_personalproperty.html
Real Property: plan_realproperty.html
State Assessed Property: plan_stateassessedproperty.html
Conveyance Division: plan_conveyancedivision.html
Special Survey: plan_specialsurvey.html
Parcel Info: plan_parcelinfo.html
Easement: plan_easement.html
Landtie: plan_landtie.html
Right of Way: plan_rightofway.html
Historic Right of Way: plan_historicrightofway.html

UPDATED As of Sept 13, 2022 we have changed some of our attributes. The most significant changes involve fields that began with Primary Tax Payer and Alternate Tax Payer now start with Owner and Tax Payer, respectively.Attributed Parcel Polygons have boundaries that represent property descriptions (legal descriptions) and land ownership. The attribute fields are based on ones provided in Ramsey County Users Group shapefiles, ParPts and OnLineCore, and MetroGIS Parcel Datasets. These fields are populated from a compilation of records and information from various state, county and city offices, and other sources. This data is joined to Ramsey County's Parcel data using a property identification number (PIN) which is assigned to both polygons and points and is the primary link to county tax and assessment data. In 1986, parcels were digitized from hand drawn 1:2400 half and 1:1200 quarter section maps. In 1995, the parcel data layer was converted to ArcINFO format and held in the ArcStorm data base. Parcels were converted in 2005 to an ESRI ArcGIS GeoDatabase. In 2013, Attributes, which were previously joined only to Parcel Points, were added to Parcel Polygons. Parcel Points are used to represent the one-to-many relationship that Common Interest Communities (CIC), Apartment Ownerships or Condominiums, as well as Manufactured Homes and Apartment Units have with the Parcel Polygons. Polygons associated with CICs, Apartment Ownerships and Condominiums use the smallest Parcel Point PIN as their PIN and have attribute data limited information that is not unit specific (e.g., tax payer name and address information, tax and estimated market values are omitted). There are a few cases where polygons exist but there is no associated point, these include common areas associated with a CIC, parks or water; no official PIN exists for these polygons and there is no attribute data.

This dataset contains miscellaneous linework that assists with map creation and clarification. Examples of graphical features represented in this database are: old or vacated lot lines, lines, right of way and plat boundary extension lines.The parcel information data layer represents various parcel related graphical elements, which aid in the understanding and interpretation of map features. It is not intended to be inclusive. It is intended to act as a visual aid to help with map interpretation.

This dataset is a compilation of county parcel data from Minnesota counties that have opted-in for their parcel data to be included in this dataset.

It includes the following 59 counties that have opted-in as of the publication date of this dataset: Aitkin County, Anoka County, Becker County, Benton County, Big Stone County, Carlton County, Carver County, Cass County, Chippewa County, Chisago County, Clay County, Clearwater County, Cook County, Crow Wing County, Dakota County, Douglas County, Fillmore County, Grant County, Hennepin County, Houston County, Isanti County, Itasca County, Jackson County, Koochiching County, Lac qui Parle County, Lake County, Lake of the Woods County, Lyon County, Marshall County, McLeod County, Mille Lacs County, Morrison County, Mower County, Murray County, Norman County, Olmsted County, Otter Tail County, Pennington County, Pipestone County, Polk County, Pope County, Ramsey County, Red Lake County, Renville County, Rice County, Scott County, Sherburne County, St. Louis County, Stearns County, Steele County, Stevens County, Traverse County, Wabasha County, Waseca County, Washington County, Wilkin County, Winona County, Wright County, and Yellow Medicine County.

If you represent a county not included in this dataset and would like to opt-in, please contact Heather Albrecht (Heather.Albrecht@hennepin.us), co-chair of the Minnesota Geospatial Advisory Council (GAC)’s Parcels and Land Records Committee's Open Data Subcommittee. County parcel data does not need to be in the GAC parcel data standard to be included. MnGeo will map the county fields to the GAC standard.

County parcel data records have been assembled into a single dataset with a common coordinate system (UTM Zone 15) and common attribute schema. The county parcel data attributes have been mapped to the GAC parcel data standard for Minnesota: https://www.mngeo.state.mn.us/committee/standards/parcel_attrib/parcel_attrib.html

This compiled parcel dataset was created using Python code developed by Minnesota state agency GIS professionals, and represents a best effort to map individual county source file attributes into the common attribute schema of the GAC parcel data standard. The attributes from counties are mapped to the most appropriate destination column. In some cases, the county source files included attributes that were not mapped to the GAC standard. Additionally, some county attribute fields were parsed and mapped to multiple GAC standard fields, such as a single line address. Each quarter, MnGeo provides a text file to counties that shows how county fields are mapped to the GAC standard. Additionally, this text file shows the fields that are not mapped to the standard and those that are parsed. If a county shares changes to how their data should be mapped, MnGeo updates the compilation. If you represent a county and would like to update how MnGeo is mapping your county attribute fields to this compiled dataset, please contact us.

This dataset is a snapshot of parcel data, and the source date of the county data may vary. Users should consult County websites to see the most up-to-date and complete parcel data.

There have been recent changes in date/time fields, and their processing, introduced by our software vendor. In some cases, this has resulted in date fields being empty. We are aware of the issue and are working to correct it for future parcel data releases.

The State of Minnesota makes no representation or warranties, express or implied, with respect to the use or reuse of data provided herewith, regardless of its format or the means of its transmission. THE DATA IS PROVIDED “AS IS” WITH NO GUARANTEE OR REPRESENTATION ABOUT THE ACCURACY, CURRENCY, SUITABILITY, PERFORMANCE, MECHANTABILITY, RELIABILITY OR FITINESS OF THIS DATA FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. This dataset is NOT suitable for accurate boundary determination. Contact a licensed land surveyor if you have questions about boundary determinations.

DOWNLOAD NOTES: This dataset is only provided in Esri File Geodatabase and OGC GeoPackage formats. A shapefile is not available because the size of the dataset exceeds the limit for that format. The distribution version of the fgdb is compressed to help reduce the data footprint. QGIS users should consider using the Geopackage format for better results.

Easement boundaries support many functions including automated half and quarter section map production, thematic mapping, land records and property assessment and surveying and engineering projects.

This dataset contains linework that represents landties. These are lines with hooked ends that help define parcel ownership on maps. The landtie data represents graphical elements, which aid in the understanding and interpretation of map features. It is not intended to be inclusive. It is intended to act as a visual aid to help with map interpretation.

In 1986, parcel polygons [PARPOLY] were digitized from hand drawn 1:2400 half and 1:1200 quarter section maps. In 1995, the parcel data layer was converted to an ArcINFO format and held in an ArcStorm database. Parcel polygons were converted in 2005 to an ESRI ArcGIS SDE GeoDatabase; the name was changed to Parcel Components. In 2014, Ramsey County migrated to ESRI's Parcel Fabric; Conveyance Divisions were created from the Parcel Components.

Common Interest boundaries support many functions including automated half and quarter section map production, thematic mapping, land records and property assessment, and surveying and engineering projects.

This data set contains polygons that represent Municipal boundaries. The Municipal boundaries were originally digitized from MNDOT municipality maps. Over time, these boundaries have been edited to better match Ramsey County parcel data.

Tax Parcel boundaries represent property descriptions (legal descriptions) and land ownership boundaries. A twelve character property identification number (PIN) is assigned to these parcels. The ParcelID is used as a primary link to county tax and assessment data. An attributed version of Tax Parcels is called AttributedParcelPoly.

UPDATED As of Sept 13, 2022 we have changed some of our attributes. The most significant changes involve fields that began with Primary Tax Payer and Alternate Tax Payer now start with Owner and Tax Payer, respectively.Attributed Parcel Point contains data fields previously contained in Ramsey County Users Group shapefiles, ParPts and OnLineCore, and MetroGIS Parcel Datasets. These fields are populated from a compilation of records and information from various state, county and city offices, and other sources. This data is joined to Ramsey County's Parcel Point data using a property identification number (PIN) which is assigned to both polygons and points and is the primary link to county tax and assessment data. In 1986, parcels were digitized from hand drawn 1:2400 half and 1:1200 quarter section maps. In 1995, the parcel data layer was converted to ArcINFO format and held in the ArcStorm data base. Parcel Points were created from parcel centroids. Parcel Points were converted in 2005 to an ESRI ArcGIS GeoDatabase. When Parcel Points were originally created, there was a one-to-one relationship with identical PINs on both Parcel Polygons and Parcel Points with additional Parcel Points added for Common Interest Communities, Apartment Ownerships or Condominiums, where there is a one-to-many relationship with the Parcel Polygon having the smallest PIN for all associated Parcel Points. Parcel Points were also added for Manufactured Homes and are being added for Apartment Units. The PIN for Manufactured Homes contains a number for the Manufactured Home Park followed by an M then a unique number. The PIN for Apartments Units begins with a U and is followed by the PIN for the Parcel Polygon; attribute data for Apartment Units consists primarily of site address information. The Attributed Parcel Point field, TaxParcelID, can be used to identify the associated Parcel Polygon based on its PIN, and ParcelCode can be used to identify if there is a one-to-many relationship between the point & polygon features.

This dataset contains federal, state, county & municipal platted right of ways.Right of Way boundaries support many functions including automated half and quarter section map production, thematic mapping, land records and property assessment, and surveying and engineering projects.

Water lines in this dataset support many functions including thematic mapping, land records, property assessment, and surveying and engineering projects. Additional attributes are included to aid in linking to non-County resources.