1 county indexed. ArcGIS FeatureServer and MapServer URLs, with supported search fields per layer.
| County | Endpoints | Searchable fields | Status | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fayette County | 1 | Parcel Account Number (Parcel ID) · Owner Name 1 | LIVE | OPEN |
Kentucky has 120 counties — third-most in the US after Texas (254) and Georgia (159). Each county has an elected Property Valuation Administrator (PVA), the Kentucky-specific title for the official responsible for assessing real property. The Kentucky Department of Revenue sets statewide assessment standards and reviews PVA work through its Division of State Valuation, but parcel spatial data is maintained at the county level. Fayette County (Lexington) operates as a consolidated urban county government — the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government (LFUCG) — and its parcel layer is hosted on ArcGIS Online with owner names and mailing addresses accessible via REST.
KYGeoNet (kygeonet.ky.gov) is the Kentucky Division of Geographic Information's geospatial data clearinghouse, operated under the Commonwealth Office of Technology. KYGovMaps Open Data Portal (opengisdata.ky.gov) provides access to downloadable statewide GIS datasets. The KyFromAbove program, managed by the Division of Geographic Information, coordinates aerial imagery statewide and has been paired with some PVA data publication through the KyFromAbove Explorer (kygeonet.ky.gov/pva/). However, no single federated statewide parcel REST endpoint exists — each of the 120 PVA offices manages its data independently. The QPubic platform (qpublic.net/ky) aggregates web search portals for many Kentucky PVAs, but that is a UI layer over county data, not a unified REST API.
Kentucky's use of Property Valuation Administrator (PVA) instead of Assessor or Appraiser is uniform statewide and codified in Kentucky Revised Statutes Chapter 132. All 120 counties have an elected PVA. Additionally, some Kentucky counties have merged city and county governments: Fayette County merged with Lexington in 1974 to form the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government (LFUCG), and Louisville merged with Jefferson County in 2003 to form Louisville Metro Government. Both of these consolidated governments operate GIS systems under the merged entity's branding rather than the county Assessor model used elsewhere. Fayette County's parcel endpoint is hosted under the LFUCG ArcGIS organization; Jefferson County's is under Louisville Metro.
Fayette County stores the parcel identifier in PAN (Parcel Account Number), which is a numeric value — not a hyphen-formatted APN string. The PARCEL_SUB, PARCEL_BLOCK, and PARCEL_LOT fields carry subdivision, block, and lot components as separate fields rather than encoding them into the primary ID. PARCEL_TYPE records the property classification (e.g., residential, commercial, agricultural). The field PARCEL_POLY_NAME may be null for some parcels. Mailing_Address is a single concatenated string, not split into components, so address parsing requires client-side string manipulation. Owner1, Owner2, and Owner3 accommodate up to three ownership entities; Owner2 and Owner3 are not flagged as searchable in the atlas because they are secondary fields that often contain trust or LLC continuation text.
The RecordDate field in Fayette County's Tax_Parcels layer reflects the date the deed or instrument establishing current ownership was recorded with the county clerk — not the date of the most recent assessment or appraisal. This matters for monitoring recent ownership transfers: a recent RecordDate indicates a new deed was filed, which may or may not coincide with a change in assessed value (assessments update on the annual PVA cycle). For investors or planners tracking recently transferred parcels, querying RecordDate >= '2025-01-01' is a useful filter. Kentucky PVAs assess annually as of January 1, so assessment-year data and recording-year data can diverge if a sale closed late in the prior year.
Fayette County (Lexington, consolidated LFUCG, pop. ~322,000). Tax_Parcels FeatureServer at services.arcgis.com (LFUCG ArcGIS Online org) exposes PAN, Owner1/2/3, Mailing_Address, PARCEL_TYPE, PARCEL_SUB, PARCEL_BLOCK, PARCEL_LOT, RecordDate. Owner-name queries confirmed live via UPPER(Owner1) LIKE. Open data hub at data-lfucg.hub.arcgis.com.
Fayette County owner search: ?where=UPPER(Owner1)+LIKE+UPPER('%25SMITH%25')&outFields=PAN,Owner1,Mailing_Address,PARCEL_TYPE,RecordDate&returnGeometry=false&f=json&resultRecordCount=10 (base: services.arcgis.com/f4rR7WnIfGBdVYFd/arcgis/rest/services/Tax_Parcels/FeatureServer/0). PAN lookup: ?where=PAN=<numeric_value>&outFields=*&returnGeometry=false&f=json. Recent transfers: ?where=RecordDate>='2025-01-01'&outFields=PAN,Owner1,Mailing_Address,PARCEL_TYPE,RecordDate&returnGeometry=false&f=json&orderByFields=RecordDate+DESC&resultRecordCount=25. Parcel type filter: ?where=PARCEL_TYPE='R'+AND+UPPER(Owner1)+LIKE+UPPER('%25TRUST%25')&outFields=PAN,Owner1,PARCEL_TYPE,RecordDate&returnGeometry=false&f=json.
Last updated 2026-05-24.
1 Kentucky county is indexed in the UrbanKit atlas with a verified public REST endpoint: Fayette. It exposes an owner-name field you can search directly on the public layer.
Fayette expose an owner-name field on the public REST layer. Fayette, for example, uses the Owner1 field — a case-insensitive search is ?where=UPPER(Owner1)%20LIKE%20UPPER('%25SMITH%25')&outFields=*&f=json. Open a county's page here for its full field list and a ready-to-run sample query.
Fayette publishes parcels at https://services.arcgis.com/f4rR7WnIfGBdVYFd/arcgis/rest/services/Tax_Parcels/FeatureServer/0 — a FeatureServer (layer 0). It indexes by Parcel Account Number (Parcel ID) and Owner Name 1. Owner-name search: UPPER(Owner1) LIKE UPPER('%25SMITH%25').
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