Pull King County, Washington parcel and platted-land-description polygons programmatically for a subdivision feasibility study.
domain: gis-kingcounty.opendata.arcgis.com · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Browse the King County GIS Open Data portal at https://gis-kingcounty.opendata.arcgis.com/ to locate the current parcel/plat dataset listing.
Use the REST feature service directly, e.g. https://gisdata.kingcounty.gov/arcgis/rest/services/OpenDataPortal/property__parcel_area/MapServer (or its FeatureServer equivalent), which represents tax parcels including placeholder polygons for platted/unplatted land descriptions.
Query by PIN (10-digit Parcel Identification Number) or its MAJOR (first 6 digits)/MINOR (last 4 digits) components as documented on the KingCo_Parcels MapServer layer.
For recorded plat document images themselves (not just parcel geometry), use the separate Recorder's Office Landmark search at kingcounty.gov's records-search page — that tool is a web search UI, not a REST API.
Note King County's open-data REST endpoints were migrated onto ArcGIS Online hosting — if an older gismaps.kingcounty.gov URL 404s, look for its OpenDataPortal-hosted replacement.
Known gotchas
Parcel/plat GEOMETRY has a real ArcGIS REST API (feature/map services), but the actual scanned PLAT DOCUMENT images are only searchable through the Recorder's Landmark web portal, which has no published public API — don't conflate the two for an automation task.
Endpoint URLs have moved between gismaps.kingcounty.gov and gisdata.kingcounty.gov during the ArcGIS Online migration; hardcoded older URLs may silently redirect or break.
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