Public ArcGIS MapServer endpoint for Newport News city 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 Newport News city parcel search runs this same layer in your browser, no account and no API key.
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https://maps.nnva.gov/gis/rest/services/Operational/Parcel/MapServer/0Field by field, whether any endpoint we index for Newport News city 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. |
OWNERNME1Owner NamePARCELIDParcel IDSITEADDRESSSitus AddressPSTLADDRESS1Owner Mailing Address 1curl -s 'https://maps.nnva.gov/gis/rest/services/Operational/Parcel/MapServer/0/query?where=UPPER(OWNERNME1)+LIKE+UPPER('%25SMITH%25')&outFields=PARCELID,OWNERNME1,SITEADDRESS,PSTLADDRESS1,PSTLCITY&returnGeometry=false&resultRecordCount=10&f=json'https://maps.nnva.gov/gis/rest/services/Operational/Parcel/MapServer/0/query?where=UPPER(OWNERNME1)+LIKE+UPPER('%SMITH%')&outFields=PARCELID,OWNERNME1,SITEADDRESS,PSTLADDRESS1,PSTLCITY&returnGeometry=false&resultRecordCount=10&f=jsonOpen this URL in a browser tab to see the raw ArcGIS JSON response.
| Field name | Label | Searchable |
|---|---|---|
| OWNERNME1 | Owner Name | YES |
| OWNERNME2 | Owner Name 2 | NO |
| PARCELID | Parcel ID | YES |
| SITEADDRESS | Situs Address | YES |
| PSTLADDRESS1 | Owner Mailing Address 1 | YES |
| PSTLADDRESS2 | Owner Mailing Address 2 | NO |
| PSTLCITY | Owner Mailing City | NO |
| PSTLSTATE | Owner Mailing State | NO |
| PSTLZIP5 | Owner Mailing ZIP | NO |
| LASTSALEDATE | Last Sale Date | NO |
| LASTSALEPRICE | Last Sale Price | NO |
| ZONE | Zoning District | NO |
The City of Newport News, Virginia (FIPS 51700) is an independent city that belongs to no county. Its Planning department's Operational/Parcel MapServer layer 0 holds 54,444 parcels, 54,359 of them with an owner, on 2026-10-08. The owner is OWNERNME1 (SMITH BRECK J) with OWNERNME2; the situs is SITEADDRESS (914 19TH ST); the owner mailing address is PSTLADDRESS1/PSTLADDRESS2 plus PSTLCITY, PSTLSTATE and PSTLZIP5; the parcel id is PARCELID, nine digits of text (313000441). CORS: the server echoes the request Origin in Access-Control-Allow-Origin and sends no CORS header at all when no Origin is sent, so a probe without an Origin header will wrongly read it as closed. maxRecordCount is 2000 with pagination. CURRENCY IS NOT PUBLISHED: the layer has no editingInfo, LASTUPDATE is null on the sampled rows, the city says only that it is 'updated as necessary', the Hub item was modified 2026-09-11 and last-sale dates include 2025; treat owners as possibly a few months behind. The licenseUrl is the city GeoHub item, whose licenseInfo says the data is public information with no warranties and not for legal, engineering or survey use. The statewide VGIN layer (54,438 rows for this FIPS) has no owner field and is not a fallback. No GIS email address was found; the city's Maps and Data page gives the Planning department's phone. Verified 2026-10-08: owner SMITH returned rows (first SMITH BRECK J, 313000441, 914 19TH ST); a situs query for 2400 WASHINGTON AVE returned CITY OF NEWPORT NEWS (315010302); a point query at -76.4730,37.0871 returned CITY OF NEWPORT NEWS, 725 TOWN CENTER DR.
City of Newport News Planning (Maps and Data; GIS questions), (757) 926-8761, https://www.nnva.gov/2253/Maps-and-Data
Newport News city's Parcel layer exposes a parcel identifier (Parcel ID), owner names (Owner Name, Owner Mailing Address 1), and address fields (Situs Address). Use it for owner-name lookups and address-based parcel searches. 4 of 12 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 2026-10-08.
/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 Newport News city actually publishes, not what you might expect from a national standard (there isn't one).
For background, see What is an APN?
maps.nnva.gov serves Newport News city, 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 Newport News city's MapServer layer on 2026-10-08. 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.
Newport News city's layer is hosted by the county on maps.nnva.gov. Public ArcGIS endpoints rarely rate-limit individual reads, but maps.nnva.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.