This data set is created using the township lines from the Snohomish County Assessor's Public Land Survey grid for the north and south boundary. The west boundary is taken from a Washington State county boundaries data set wtih a minor modification at its northerly extent to follow tide land boundries. The eastern boundary is taken from the Snohomish County basins data set.

Data DictionaryThe Allparcels data set is a thematic layer depicting past, present and future tax year real property parcel boundaries within Snohomish County, Washington based on the legal descriptions contained in the assessment roll. Parcels in this data set are defined as real property entities that can be valued for the purpose of collecting taxes. Parcels include, but are not limited to land, buildings on leased land, mobile homes and condominium units. Parcels may overlap. Parcels such as condominium units and mobile homes that may occupy a single polygon are represented as non-planar features (regions) of the same geographic extent. The Parcels data set does not depict legal ownership boundaries nor does it represent legal building lots. Snohomish County does not maintain parcels for the complete geographic coverage of the county. There is no parcel fabric in much of the eastern mountainous area. This data set is not designed to be used in connection with tabular attribute files. Its sole purpose is for historical tracking of changes in the parcel geometry. For current parcel geometry and tabular attributes, see the Parcels data set.

Snohomish County Land Cover Metrics including City Boundaries

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Data Dictionary, Shared Account Relate Document, Related DocumentThe Parcels data set is a thematic layer depicting current real property parcel boundaries within Snohomish County, Washington based on the legal descriptions contained in the assessment roll. Parcels in this data set are defined as real property entities that can be valued for the purpose of collecting taxes. Parcels include, but are not limited to land, buildings on leased land, mobile homes and condominium units. Parcels may overlap. Parcels such as condominium units and mobile homes that may occupy a single polygon are represented as non-planar features (regions) of the same geographic extent. The Parcels data set does not depict legal ownership boundaries nor does it represent legal building lots. Snohomish County does not maintain parcels for the complete geographic coverage of the county. There is no parcel fabric in much of the eastern mountainous area.

The Public Land Survey System (PLSS) Grid - Line is linework derived from the master coverage of the PLSS maintained by the Assessor's Office. This dataset only contains linework and attribute information for townships, ranges, sections, quarter sections and quarter quarter sections and government lot lines. It is compiled from recorded surveys and plats, coordinates and linework supplied by private surveyors, Snohomish County Public Works Survey, cities, Washington State Department Of Natural Resources (DNR) and the United States Department of the Interior - Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Standard BLM methods are used to construct the aliquot grid. In coastal areas, the aliquot grid may not apply for many of the coastal sections, it has been constructed for the purposes of land title and defining map extents for automated routines.

Data DictionaryThe Parcelcent data set is a thematic layer depicting current real property parcel internal centroids within Snohomish County, Washington based on the boundaries of the Parcels data set. Parcels in this data set are defined as real property entities that can be valued for the purpose of collecting taxes. Parcels include, but are not limited to land, buildings on leased land, mobile homes and condominium units. Parcel centroids may be coincident. Parcels such as condominium units and mobile homes that may occupy a single polygon are represented as non-planar features (regions) of the same geographic extent and have the same centroid position in this data set. The Parcelcent data set does not depict legal ownership nor does it represent legal building lots. Snohomish County does not maintain parcels or centroids for the complete geographic coverage of the county. There is no parcel fabric in much of the eastern mountainous area. The purpose of this data set is to facilitate polygon overlay operations with the parcel data set. This data set has the same attributes as the Parcels data set it is derived from.

Data Dictionary, Related DocumentThe Subdivisions data set is a thematic layer depicting subdivision boundaries such as formal plats, condominiums, short plats, etc. Subdivisions are defined as real property entities that have gone through a formal review process through a county or city regulatory agency for the purpose of subdividing land into smaller legal building lots. Subdivisions may overlap completely or partially. The subdivisions layer is complete for formal plats and condominiums only. It does not depict all subdivisions of legal record for other types of subdivision.

Data DictionaryThe Lots data set is a thematic layer depicting legal lot boundaries such as formal plats, condominiums, short plats, etc. Lots are defined as real property entities that have gone through a formal review process through a county or city regulatory agency for the purpose of subdividing land into smaller legal building lots. Lots may overlap completely or partially. The Lots layer is not complete for any category of subdivision type as some lots may no longer have any relevance and are therefore not included in the data set.

For more information about this layer please see the GIS Data Catalog.Public land survey system (PLSS) for combined King, Snohomish and Pierce County areas, at section level. See also PLSS_TWN and PLSS_QTR for township/range and quarter-section grids, respectively.