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Burke County, NC parcel owner data

88,351 parcels with the owner of record. 88,351 carry an owner mailing address (100%), and 55,681 of those are absentee — the list investors mail first. Browsing is free and unlimited on the map; one credit turns any owner into a verified phone and email, and only if one comes back.

What a county file actually lands at. 2,467 of these rows (3%) are owned by a government body, a school or water district, a church, a cemetery or an HOA, and every list pull strips them — so a Burke County file arrives at about 85,884 mailable rows, not 88,351. That is the number to price against.

88,351

Parcels

28 named places

55,681

Absentee owners

63% of rows

1,645

Out of state

2% of rows

12,936

LLC / trust owned

15% of rows

Why out-of-state is near zero here. That flag is read from the two-letter state before the ZIP at the end of the mailing address. Burke County publishes most of its mailing addresses without a trailing state and ZIP, so the filter can only confirm 1,645. That is the filter's real answer for this county, not a rounding — an out-of-state pull here will come back nearly empty, and absentee is the flag to use instead.

What Burke County publishes

A county is only as useful as the columns it fills in. This is measured on the rows themselves, not promised: how many of this county's 88,351 parcels carry each field.

Field coverage for Burke County
FieldRowsShareCoverageStatus
Parcel numberThe county's own APN, exactly as published.88,351100%Complete
Latitude / longitudeParcel centroid. This is what puts the row on the map.88,351100%Complete
Owner of recordName as the assessor publishes it, second owner kept where there is one.88,351100%Complete
Property addressStreet address of the parcel itself.88,345100%Complete
Property ZIPNeeded for a ZIP-scoped pull.29,41233%Sparse
Owner mailing addressOne line, as published. This is what a mail piece is addressed to.88,351100%Complete
Mailing city / state as separate columnsSome counties publish the mailing address split into fields; most publish one line. Absentee and out-of-state are derived either way.58,81467%Complete
AcreageDeeded acres. Absent in Florida and Colorado counties.88,351100%Complete
Assessed land valueLand only. There is no improvement or total value, so equity cannot be estimated.58,93967%Complete
Land use codeFree text from the county. Missing entirely in Texas and Florida, so a vacant-land filter matches nothing there.00%Not published

Read this before you filter. Property ZIP, Land use code are under 40% populated in this county. A filter on them silently drops every row that has no value, so a range filter here will return far fewer records than the parcel count suggests.

Not in the record — for any county

  • Sale date, sale price, transfer history
  • Mortgage, lien, foreclosure or tax-delinquent status
  • Equity (there is no total value to subtract from)
  • Year built, square footage, beds and baths
  • Flood, wetlands, landlocked or road-frontage flags
  • Owner phone and email — those are traced on request, never stored on the parcel

Twelve real rows

Drawn deterministically by a hash of each row's own key, so these are the same twelve rows on every render and they spread across the county rather than down one street. Government, school, church and HOA owners are excluded, the way they are in a pull.

Sample parcel rows from Burke County
ParcelOwnerProperty addressOwner mails fromAcresLand valueFlag
1794659306HAWKINS SETH C;HAWKINS KELLY C106 RIVERWOODS Dr, Quaker Meadows108 RIVERWOODS DR MORGANTON NC 286553.61—Absentee
1787293451WILLIS RYAN JACOB2514 ISAACS Rdg, Upper Creek2514 ISAACS RDG MORGANTON NC 2865524.30—Owner-occupied
1774345950MOODY THOMAS L JR;MOODY KAREN F1535 LEMON TREE Ln, Quaker Meadows1661 LEMONTREE LN MORGANTON NC 286550.54—Absentee
1784197394AVERY JEFFREY GLENN2834 FRANK WHISNANT Rd, Quaker Meadows2816 FRANK WHISNANT RD MORGANTON NC 286550.29—Absentee
1784898114GRADY JERRY M140 FRANK ALLMAN Rd, Quaker Meadows140 FRANK ALLMAN RD MORGANTON NC 286552.00—Owner-occupied
1733993761JOHNSON CHRISTOPHER L;JOHNSON CHERYL L1455 YELLOW FORK W Trl, Linville1455 YELLOW FORK TRL W NEBO NC 287611.56—Owner-occupied
1842708096EDWARDS HERBERT EARL;EDWARDS CAROLYN6205 GRAGG Ave, Jonas Ridge639 COULWOOD DR CHARLOTTE NC 282143.01—Absentee
1764067175GROSE PAUL S;GROSE LENOSKA C4953 CAMDEN POINTE Dr, Linville4953 CAMDEN POINTE DR MORGANTON NC 286550.70—Owner-occupied
1669311352EDHEGARD KIM;EDHEGARD ANNA0 NUCKOLLS Dr, Silver Creek209 VALDESE AVE MORGANTON NC 286554.62—Absentee
2704837347DAVIS CHRISTINE P;DAVIS STEPHANIE E121 DOGWOOD Dr, Morganton121 DOGWOOD DRIVE MORGANTON NC 286550.85—Owner-occupied
1770470798HOWELL CASSANDRA A;BROWN MITCHELL EDWARD2242 CONLEY Rd, Silver Creek2242 CONLEY RD MORGANTON NC 286550.93—Owner-occupied
2703395804LOOKADOO SHERRY B;LOOKADOO JOSEPH SCOTT101 BRISTOL St, Morganton101 BRISTOL ST MORGANTON NC 286550.62—Owner-occupied

Public record data as published by the county. Phone and email are never shown here; they are resolved per owner, on request, with a right-party score.

What you can do with Burke County owner data

Pull every absentee owner in a ZIP and export the mailing addresses for a direct-mail campaign. Draw a box around a subdivision on the map and skip-trace the whole block in one job. Look up who owns the lot next to a listing, then call them with a scored number instead of sending a letter that gets thrown away.

Where the data comes from

Parcel boundaries, owner of record and mailing addresses are public records maintained by the county assessor or GIS office. Quarry pulls them from the county's own published services and refreshes on the county's cycle; the counts on this page were measured 2026-09-09. Phone and email come from the skip-trace engine, cross-checked across sources and scored, and you are only charged when a contact is found.