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Columbus County, NC parcel owner data

56,136 parcels with the owner of record. 55,287 carry an owner mailing address (98%), and 40,862 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. 2,044 of these rows (4%) 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 Columbus County file arrives at about 54,092 mailable rows, not 56,136. That is the number to price against.

56,136

Parcels

152 named places

40,862

Absentee owners

73% of rows

569

Out of state

1% of rows

7,196

LLC / trust owned

13% 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. Columbus County publishes most of its mailing addresses without a trailing state and ZIP, so the filter can only confirm 569. 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 Columbus 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 56,136 parcels carry each field.

Field coverage for Columbus County
FieldRowsShareCoverageStatus
Parcel numberThe county's own APN, exactly as published.56,136100%Complete
Latitude / longitudeParcel centroid. This is what puts the row on the map.56,136100%Complete
Owner of recordName as the assessor publishes it, second owner kept where there is one.56,136100%Complete
Property addressStreet address of the parcel itself.53,14495%Complete
Property ZIPNeeded for a ZIP-scoped pull.5,0459%Sparse
Owner mailing addressOne line, as published. This is what a mail piece is addressed to.55,28798%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.51,09191%Complete
AcreageDeeded acres. Absent in Florida and Colorado counties.56,136100%Complete
Assessed land valueLand only. There is no improvement or total value, so equity cannot be estimated.51,09191%Complete
Land use codeFree text from the county. Missing entirely in Texas and Florida, so a vacant-land filter matches nothing there.56,095100%Complete

Read this before you filter. Property ZIP is under 40% populated in this county. A filter on it 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 Columbus County
ParcelOwnerProperty addressOwner mails fromAcresLand valueFlag
0146.00-93-4545.000ANN W HUGHES REVOCABLE TRUST9680 JOE BROWN HWY S, TABOR CITYPO BOX 5390.0026,100Absentee
0159.00-89-3095.000WILLIAMS ANNIE1739 CEDAR BRANCH RD, CHADBOURN1739 CEDER BRANCH RD0.006,800Absentee
0139.00-11-3525.000THOMPKINS JACK MNEAR 9314 ROUGH AND READY RD9314 ROUGH & READY RD0.005,800Absentee
0176.00-21-3344.000JOHNSON ZONA769 MOLLIE RD105 PINE ST0.004,700Absentee
0134.00-72-8670.000RAY JULIA DORMAN (ETAL)NEAR 101 MCGOUGAN ST, TABOR CITY310 PARK ST0.002,500Absentee
0167.00-13-6252.000GARRELL TERRY BRANDON16109 PEACOCK RD, CHADBOURN16109 PEACOCK RD0.0013,200Owner-occupied
0155.00-93-2744.000HARDWICK DIANA GASKINS933 MINOS MEARES RD, TABOR CITY12287 JAMES B WHITE HWY S0.00209,100Absentee
0146.00-68-6054.000CANADY GEORGE WAYNE3390 SIDNEY CHERRY GROVE RD, CLARENDON3068 SWEET PINE CT0.0018,800Absentee
0117.00-74-8611.000REVOCABLE TRUST AGREEMENT OF THOMASNEAR 10506 SIDNEY CHERRY GROVE RDH & DONNA C PHILLIPS (THE) 13528 HWY 226 SOUTH0.0022,400Absentee
0165.00-89-9727.000PRINCE DON WAYNE (ETALS)NEAR 11380 JAMES B WHITE HWY S, WHITEVILLE11143 JAMES B WHITE HWY S0.006,900Absentee
0134.04-84-5166.000FLEWWELLIN CHRIS & EDITH210 GARRELL ST, TABOR CITY210 GARRELL ST0.004,600Owner-occupied
0134.01-45-1397.000WILLIAMS GREGORY A (ETAL)NEAR 104 SCHOOL ST24198 PEACOCK RD0.003,200Absentee

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 Columbus 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.