Public ArcGIS FeatureServer endpoint for James City 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 James City County parcel search runs this same layer in your browser, no account and no API key.
Search James City County parcelsHave a street address but not the parcel number? Find the parcel number by address.
https://property.jamescitycountyva.gov/arcgis/rest/services/JCC/GIS_Data/FeatureServer/17Field by field, whether any endpoint we index for James City 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 | Answered | Documented in a field list on an endpoint we index. Not every row is populated. |
| 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 | Answered | Documented in a field list on an endpoint we index. Not every row is populated. |
PINParcel Identification Number (PIN)Owner1Owner NameFull_AddressSitus AddressCitySitus CityMailAddrOwner Mailing AddressMailCityOwner Mailing Citycurl -s 'https://property.jamescitycountyva.gov/arcgis/rest/services/JCC/GIS_Data/FeatureServer/17/query?where=UPPER(Owner1)+LIKE+UPPER('%25SMITH%25')&outFields=PIN,Owner1,Full_Address,City,MailAddr,MailCity&returnGeometry=false&resultRecordCount=10&f=json'https://property.jamescitycountyva.gov/arcgis/rest/services/JCC/GIS_Data/FeatureServer/17/query?where=UPPER(Owner1)+LIKE+UPPER('%SMITH%')&outFields=PIN,Owner1,Full_Address,City,MailAddr,MailCity&returnGeometry=false&resultRecordCount=10&f=jsonOpen this URL in a browser tab to see the raw ArcGIS JSON response.
| Field name | Label | Searchable |
|---|---|---|
| PIN | Parcel Identification Number (PIN) | YES |
| Owner1 | Owner Name | YES |
| Owner2 | Owner Name 2 | NO |
| Full_Address | Situs Address | YES |
| City | Situs City | YES |
| Zip_Code | Situs ZIP | NO |
| MailAddr | Owner Mailing Address | YES |
| MailCity | Owner Mailing City | YES |
| MailStat | Owner Mailing State | NO |
| MailZip | Owner Mailing ZIP | NO |
| PCDesc | State Property Class | NO |
| Zoning | Zoning | NO |
| CurTot | Current Total Assessed Value | NO |
| LegalAc | Legal Acres | NO |
James City County, Virginia (Williamsburg area; FIPS 51095) was asked for through the free tools. The county publishes its parcels on its own ArcGIS Server at property.jamescitycountyva.gov, JCC/GIS_Data FeatureServer layer 17 ('Parcels', one row per parcel): 36,478 parcels on 2026-10-10, 36,364 of them with an owner. The owner is Owner1 with Owner2; the situs is Full_Address (also split as ADDR_NUM plus Street_Name, and repeated from the assessment record as LocAddr/LocCity/LocZip) with City and Zip_Code; the owner mailing address is MailAddr plus MailCity, MailStat and MailZip (MailZip is nine digits without a hyphen); the parcel id is PIN, ten digits of text, alongside UID and the LRSN. The layer also carries the last three sales with grantors, three years of land, improvement and total assessed values, zoning, the state property class and legal acres. CORS: the server echoes the request Origin in Access-Control-Allow-Origin, so a probe without an Origin header reads it as closed. maxRecordCount is 2000 with pagination. The service lists Update and Editing capabilities alongside Query; the atlas only ever reads. The county also mirrors this layer to an ArcGIS Online hosted service that answers 'Token Required' (499) to anonymous requests; it is not used. Currency: the ArcGIS Online item for this layer was modified 2026-10-08 and the rows carry current-year assessed values. TERMS: the item's license text says the data is believed to be correct but is not guaranteed by James City County, that the county is not responsible for its accuracy or currency, that discrepancies go to the county GIS department, and that 'disclaimers as to such should be placed on all final products derived from the provided data'. Anything built from this record should carry that disclaimer. Field definitions: property.jamescitycountyva.gov/AGOL/Documents/AGOL_Open_Data/Parcel_Fields.pdf. No GIS email address is published; the county's GIS / Mapping page is the contact. Verified 2026-10-10: a count, resultRecordCount=1, an owner LIKE query (341 rows for %SMITH%) and a situs LIKE query on MAIN ST (9 rows).
James City County Mapping Office (GIS), https://jamescitycountyva.gov/395/GIS-Mapping
James City County's Parcels layer exposes a parcel identifier (Parcel Identification Number (PIN)), owner names (Owner Name, Owner Mailing Address, Owner Mailing City), and address fields (Situs Address, Situs City). Use it for owner-name lookups and address-based parcel searches. 6 of 14 listed fields accept queries; the rest are returned on read but not indexed for search. Served as an ArcGIS FeatureServer layer, so edits and applyEdits operations are technically exposed (read access only is published here); last verified 2026-10-10.
/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 James City County actually publishes, not what you might expect from a national standard (there isn't one).
For background, see What is an APN?
property.jamescitycountyva.gov serves James City County, Virginia 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 James City County's FeatureServer layer on 2026-10-10. 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.
James City County's layer is hosted by the county on property.jamescitycountyva.gov. Public ArcGIS endpoints rarely rate-limit individual reads, but property.jamescitycountyva.gov 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.