Web TutorialUsing the Assessor’s Site

May 27, 1999

Polk County AssessorHome Page

URL = www.assess.co.polk.ia.us

Bookmarking the Site

Moving Around

• Use the ‘Tab Key’ to move from field to field (shift tab to move to previous field).

OR• Use the mouse to click

from field to field.

Query Options for Property Search

• Homeowner Query• General Query• Legal Query• Commercial Query• Photo Search• Skip to next subject

Home Owner Query

• Query by – street address and/or – jurisdiction (optional)– owners last name and initial of first name (optional)

• Enter what you know. Partial information is acceptable. • This is an intelligent query capable of interpreting the

users request.• See Example• Back to index

General Query• Powerful query capable of identifying combinations and/or

ranges of data. • Query by

– Property Address• Use 2nd House # field to search for a range of addresses• Exclude direction (NW, S, SE, etc) and suffix (ST, AV, CT, etc.).

Query will NOT work with these qualifiers.– Ownership

• Enter exact or partial spelling of name– District (Requires 3 digits) / Parcel (do not need leading zeros)– GeoParcel

• Actual • Match

• Back to index

Legal Query

• Back to index

Commercial Query

• Back to index

Photo Search

• Back to index

Query to Vague

Report Options

Assessor Navigation Bar

Actual vs. Match

Home Owner Query

General Query

Township Range Link

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APPENDIX

Examples

Example - Home Owner Query

[ Index ] [ About Query ]

Example - General Query

[ Index ] [ About Query ]

Example - Legal Query

[ Index ] [ About Query ]

Example - Commercial Query

[ Index ] [ About Query ]

Example - Photo Query

[ Index ] [ About Query ]

Address Range from General Query

[ About Query ]