Public ArcGIS MapServer endpoint for Charleston County parcel data. URL, supported fields, and a working sample query, copy it, or open it directly in the UrbanKit parcel lookup tool.
This page is the endpoint reference. If you came here to find a specific property, the Charleston County parcel search runs this same layer in your browser, no account and no API key.
Search Charleston County parcels →https://gisccapps.charlestoncounty.org/arcgis/rest/services/GIS_VIEWER/External_GIS_Website/MapServer/7Field by field, whether any endpoint we index for Charleston County answers it, and the evidence for each. We only call a field restricted when there is a stated reason we can cite. Everything else here is a fact about the services we index, not a claim about the law.
| Field | Status | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| APN | Answered | Documented in a field list on an endpoint we index. Not every row is populated. |
| Owner name | Answered | Documented in a field list on an endpoint we index. Not every row is populated. |
| Owner mailing address | Answered | Documented in a field list on an endpoint we index. Not every row is populated. |
| Site address | Not published | No endpoint we index for this county documents this field, so a query cannot ask for it. That is a fact about the services we index, not a legal restriction, and not a statement that the county holds no such record. Where to request it. |
| Geometry | Answered | Documented in a field list on an endpoint we index. Not every row is populated. |
| Land use | Not published | No endpoint we index for this county documents this field, so a query cannot ask for it. That is a fact about the services we index, not a legal restriction, and not a statement that the county holds no such record. Where to request it. |
| Zoning | Not published | No endpoint we index for this county documents this field, so a query cannot ask for it. That is a fact about the services we index, not a legal restriction, and not a statement that the county holds no such record. Where to request it. |
PIDParcel IDOWNER1Owner Name 1curl -s 'https://gisccapps.charlestoncounty.org/arcgis/rest/services/GIS_VIEWER/External_GIS_Website/MapServer/7/query?where=UPPER(OWNER1)+LIKE+UPPER(%27%25SMITH%25%27)&outFields=PID,OWNER1,OWNER2,MAIL_ST_NAME&returnGeometry=false&f=json&resultRecordCount=10'
https://gisccapps.charlestoncounty.org/arcgis/rest/services/GIS_VIEWER/External_GIS_Website/MapServer/7/query?where=UPPER(OWNER1)+LIKE+UPPER('%SMITH%')&outFields=PID,OWNER1,OWNER2,MAIL_ST_NAME&returnGeometry=false&f=json&resultRecordCount=10Open this URL in a browser tab to see the raw ArcGIS JSON response.
| Field name | Label | Searchable |
|---|---|---|
| PID | Parcel ID | YES |
| OWNER1 | Owner Name 1 | YES |
| OWNER2 | Owner Name 2 | NO |
| MAIL_ST_NAME | Mailing Street Name | NO |
| MAIL_ST_NO | Mailing Street Number | NO |
| MAIL_CITY | Mailing City | NO |
| MAIL_STATE | Mailing State | NO |
| MAIL_ZIP | Mailing ZIP | NO |
| TAX_DISTRICT | Tax District | NO |
| LEGAL_DESCR | Legal Description | NO |
| SUBDIVISION | Subdivision | NO |
Charleston County (pop. 430,000; includes Charleston, North Charleston, Mount Pleasant) has moved its parcel layer THREE times since June 2026, most recently on 2026-09-21, when the county withdrew the entire New_Parcel_Search service. Re-verify this URL before you rely on it. Parcels now live on GIS_VIEWER/External_GIS_Website/MapServer layer 7, whose upstream layer name is 'Parcels ***Assessor Maintained***'; the registry keeps the display name 'Parcels'. Field names are unqualified (PID, OWNER1, ...) rather than FEATURES.SDE.*-prefixed, and neither GPIN nor ACRES_CAL exists here. Layer 7 carries 27 fields, including several the registry does not map: ACREAGE, CLASS_CODE, DEED_BOOK_PAGE, PLAT_BOOK_PAGE, SALE_PRICE, RECORDED_DATE and DOC_DATE. The moves were 2026-06-06 (Parcel_Search/4 to New_Parcel_Search/61, after the old service began returning 404), 2026-09-17 (to New_Parcel_Search/4) and 2026-09-21 (to External_GIS_Website/7). If you monitor this endpoint, two things make the failure easy to miss: the first two moves changed only the layer index, so an index-only drift check looks sufficient and is not - this third move withdrew the service itself - and the dead URL still answers HTTP 200 while carrying the failure in an ArcGIS error BODY (code 500, 'Service ... not started'), with New_Parcel_Search gone from the GIS_VIEWER folder listing entirely. A check that reads only the status code calls that healthy. Re-verified live 2026-09-21: metadata, a where=1=1 query and the declared sampleQuery (UPPER(OWNER1) LIKE '%SMITH%', 10 rows) all return real features, and every one of the 11 mapped searchFields is present unchanged.
Charleston County GIS (BCS / Charleston County GIS), https://charleston-county-gis-chascogis.hub.arcgis.com/
Charleston County's Parcels layer exposes a parcel identifier (Parcel ID) and owner names (Owner Name 1). Use it for owner-name lookups and PIN-keyed record pulls. 2 of 11 listed fields accept queries; the rest are returned on read but not indexed for search. Served as an ArcGIS MapServer layer, which supports query operations but not write operations; last verified 2026-09-21.
/query?where=…&outFields=*&f=jsonto the URL. The sample query above is a working example you can paste into a browser tab to see the raw JSON response.Counties publish parcel data through their own ArcGIS Server installations, each with its own schema. One county uses APN, another uses PIN, a third uses PARCEL_ID. Some expose owner names; others keep them on a separate assessor's portal. The searchable fields list above reflects what Charleston County actually publishes, not what you might expect from a national standard (there isn't one).
For background, see What is an APN?
gisccapps.charlestoncounty.org serves Charleston County, South Carolina parcels over public ArcGIS REST, but, like most county servers, it may not send the CORS headers a browser needs for a cross-origin fetch. If a direct browser call fails, the layer still works from curl, Postman, or a server-side script; the UrbanKit parcel lookup tool proxies the request, so a search that succeeds there confirms the layer is genuinely public.
We last verified Charleston County's MapServer layer on 2026-09-21. County GIS teams move services without notice, so if you hit a fresh 404, tell us and we'll re-check. Atlas entries are re-verified on a rolling basis.
Charleston County's layer is hosted by the county on gisccapps.charlestoncounty.org. Public ArcGIS endpoints rarely rate-limit individual reads, but gisccapps.charlestoncounty.org can throttle heavy automated traffic at the host level. Page through results with resultOffset / resultRecordCount and request only the fields you need. There's no API key and no charge from the county.