Public ArcGIS MapServer endpoint for Wood 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 Wood County parcel search runs this same layer in your browser, no account and no API key.
Search Wood County parcelsHave a street address but not the parcel number? Find the parcel number by address.
https://services.wvgis.wvu.edu/arcgis/rest/services/Planning_Cadastre/WV_Parcels/MapServer/0Field by field, whether any endpoint we index for Wood 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 | 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. |
CleanParcelIDParcel ID (20-digit compound)FullOwnerNameFull Owner NameFullPhysicalAddressPhysical (Situs) Addresscurl -s 'https://services.wvgis.wvu.edu/arcgis/rest/services/Planning_Cadastre/WV_Parcels/MapServer/0/query?where=COUNTY%3D'54'+AND+UPPER(FullOwnerName)+LIKE+UPPER('%25SMITH%25')&outFields=CleanParcelID,FullOwnerName,FullPhysicalAddress,FullOwnerAddress,CountyID&returnGeometry=false&f=json&resultRecordCount=10'https://services.wvgis.wvu.edu/arcgis/rest/services/Planning_Cadastre/WV_Parcels/MapServer/0/query?where=COUNTY='54'+AND+UPPER(FullOwnerName)+LIKE+UPPER('%SMITH%')&outFields=CleanParcelID,FullOwnerName,FullPhysicalAddress,FullOwnerAddress,CountyID&returnGeometry=false&f=json&resultRecordCount=10Open this URL in a browser tab to see the raw ArcGIS JSON response.
| Field name | Label | Searchable |
|---|---|---|
| CleanParcelID | Parcel ID (20-digit compound) | YES |
| FullOwnerName | Full Owner Name | YES |
| FullPhysicalAddress | Physical (Situs) Address | YES |
| FullOwnerAddress | Owner Mailing Address | NO |
| FullLegalDescription | Legal Description | NO |
| CountyID | County ID string ('54' = Wood) | NO |
| GISPID | GIS Parcel ID | NO |
Wood County WV (Parkersburg; FIPS 54107) uses the statewide WV parcel layer hosted by the WV GIS Technical Center (WVGISTC) at WVU (services.wvgis.wvu.edu), the same layer as Kanawha, Monongalia, Raleigh and Cabell. CRITICAL: the county code is the state's own alphabetical number, a zero-padded 2-digit string ('54' for Wood, NOT the FIPS digits '107' and NOT an integer); use WHERE COUNTY='54' (or CountyID='54') with quotes. COUNTY and CountyID agree on all 58,263 Wood rows. 2026-10-10: 58,263 rows. Owner is populated on 58,261 rows (100.00%), situs on 58,159 (99.8%) and mailing on 58,002 (99.6%). Situs contains PARKERSBURG on 21 rows and MARTINSBURG (a Berkeley County city) on none; most situs values are the street only, so the city is a weak check. 263 mailing values carry asterisks: 251 of them are fully masked, asterisks standing in for the street and city (some keep the ZIP, some carry none), and the atlas serves them as no mailing address; the other 12 are real addresses and are served. 20 other mailing values read 'UNKNOWN,'. 6 owner rows carry a trailing asterisk on a real name. The layer description says the service was 'updated for Tax Year 2023', so ownership can trail the county's own roll by years, and the layer publishes no per-row date. Key fields: CleanParcelID (20-digit: CountyID-District-Map-ParcelPrefix-ParcelSuffix-SpecialID), FullOwnerName, FullOwnerAddress, FullPhysicalAddress, FullLegalDescription, GISPID, CountyID, COUNTY, CALC_ACRE. The layer allows 2,000 rows per page with pagination and answers cross-origin requests (the server echoes the request Origin). Verified 2026-10-10 with an Origin: https://urbankitstudio.com header: an owner SMITH search matches 845 rows and a MAIN ST situs search 43; the control county Kanawha (COUNTY '20') answers the same queries with 114,951 rows and 113,891 owners.
WV GIS Technical Center (WVGISTC) / West Virginia University, https://www.mapwv.gov/
Wood County's WVParcels layer exposes a parcel identifier (Parcel ID (20-digit compound)), owner names (Full Owner Name), and address fields (Physical (Situs) Address). Use it for owner-name lookups and address-based parcel searches. 3 of 7 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 2026-10-10.
/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 Wood County actually publishes, not what you might expect from a national standard (there isn't one).
For background, see What is an APN?
services.wvgis.wvu.edu serves Wood County, West 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 Wood County's MapServer 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.
Wood County's layer is hosted by the county on services.wvgis.wvu.edu. Public ArcGIS endpoints rarely rate-limit individual reads, but services.wvgis.wvu.edu 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.