The opening at the Pierce County Annex, 2401 S. The final improved parcel data is used to develop high-quality digital section maps for sale to the public and contributes to the overall relational accuracy of the Spokane County GIS database. The Assessor-Treasurer’s service counter is now open to receive property tax payments and issue receipts. The Assessor's Office does not attempt to resolve apparent overlaps or discrepancies in deeded property ownership. Baker says he would have found such resources helpful to taxpayers when he was assessor. The site is designed to make it easy to find commonly used forms and property-tax related information at one online location. Phone: (509) 962-7501 Fax: (509) 962-7666. The American Property Tax Institute also maintains an online property-tax resource center on its website. In some cases notification is sent to landowners to inform them of a potential in title problem. Search for Kittitas County property tax, sales and assessment records by address, parcel number, or legal description. Using the language contained on property deeds to build tax parcels in GIS with available georeferenced plat and survey data sometimes reveals problems in legal descriptions that must be researched. More than 30,000 parcels have been rebuilt to date. Assessors tax parcels are then built from the data by evaluating legal descriptions and processing land segregations to create each individual tax parcel. The Assessor's and Engineer's GIS staff then positioned the captured plat and survey data in the proper location using the new GPS section lines as control. Recorded plats and surveys are captured as COGO source files using County-developed GUI-based software. Spokane County has developed a process to rebuild its tax parcel data to a GPS section line-controlled ArcInfo coverage using coordinate geometry with the recorded survey and plat information.
The Spokane County Assessor's Office maintains a Countywide GIS-based tax parcel layer that was originally developed from hand-drafted Mylar source maps, which were built using section line control that was digitized from USGS 7.5 minute quadrangle maps. Converting Assessor's Tax Parcel Records to GPS Control