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Lead Investigation DOSSIER #AE-001 · GEOSPATIAL & PUBLIC RECORDS

The Invisible Cadastre: Mapping Fragmentation, Access Barriers, and Bulk Ownership Across 3,143 U.S. Counties

Public land records form the bedrock of civic transparency, property taxation, and housing market analysis. Yet across hundreds of jurisdictions, parcel boundaries and assessment rolls remain locked behind proprietary vendor portals, restrictive licensing fees, or unindexed county servers. Here is how we built an open verification pipeline to audit the nation's cadastral infrastructure.

FIG 1.1 — COUNTY CADASTRAL OPENNESS BY ACCESS TIER SOURCE: AE GEOSPATIAL AUDIT
Open Statewide GIS
68.4%
Fragmented / County
21.2%
Paywalled / Opaque
10.4%
BY ARSON EDITORIAL DESK · 14 MIN READ
Open Datasets, FOIA Filings & Verification Registry REPRODUCIBLE CORPUS
Corpus ID Dataset / Filing Title Scope & Records Verification Hash (SHA-256) Status
AE-DATA-01 U.S. County Parcel & Assessment Source Index 3,143 Counties · GIS & Tax Endpoints 9f86d081884c7d65...4a1b VERIFIED
AE-DATA-02 Institutional Single-Family Acquisition Tracker 42 Metro Areas · Deed Transfers 3c21b908f12e45a0...89d2 ACTIVE AUDIT
AE-DATA-03 Citation & Primary Source Verification Benchmark Crossref / OpenAlex Cross-Check Suite 7e11a449d03c91f8...c301 PUBLIC
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