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GET/api/states/TX/counties/harris

County Detail

Returns metadata, capabilities, health, and resolution hints for a single county. The resolutionHints object exposes the geocoder anchor and city aliases used internally to resolve ambiguous addresses in that county.

Path parameters

statestringrequired

State abbreviation in the path (e.g. TX).

countystringrequired

County slug in the path (e.g. harris, montgomery, fort-bend).

Request

curl https://api.parcelkit.us/api/states/TX/counties/harris \
  -H "x-api-key: sk_live_your_key"

Response

response.json
{
  "state": "TX",
  "county": "Harris",
  "slug": "harris",
  "displayName": "Harris County Appraisal District",
  "cadName": "HCAD",
  "providerId": "hcad",
  "portalUrl": "https://hcad.org",
  "averageTaxRate": 0.021,
  "capabilities": {
    "supportsProperty": true,
    "supportsOwnerSearch": true,
    "supportsNeighbors": true,
    "supportsSpatialNeighbors": true,
    "supportsMockFallback": false,
    "supportsSuggest": true
  },
  "status": "online",
  "health": {
    "status": "online",
    "latencyMs": 611
  },
  "resolutionHints": {
    "defaultAnchor": {
      "city": "Houston",
      "lat": 29.7604,
      "lon": -95.3698
    },
    "cityAliases": ["houston", "pasadena", "baytown", "spring", "cypress"],
    "trustedGeocoderPatterns": ["Harris County"]
  }
}

The resolutionHints.cityAliases array lists city names that reliably resolve to this county during geocoding. Use defaultAnchor as a fallback lat/lon when geocoding fails — it represents the county's geographic center of mass.