This is the mobile version of the WV Property Viewer. Click here to access the desktop version.
This application allows for searching and displaying property ownership and location information for all 55 counties in West Virginia. The application is a collaborative effort of the WV Property Tax Division and WV GIS Technical Center. As a professional courtesy, we would like to acknowledge the Comptroller of the Treasury, State of Tennessee, for its model assessment and map application which this Viewer emulates.
You can search for parcels three different ways: street address, parcel number, and property owner. The data source for the address search is the Statewide Addressing and Mapping System (SAMS) while the source for the parcel number and owner name searches is the Integrated Assessment System (IAS).
E-911 Address: This search is an address matching search based on the E-911 street address (no rural routes, postal office box numbers). The input format is as follows: street address, city, state abbreviation. An example is 98 Beechurst Ave, Morgantown, WV.
Parcel Number: This will search for all or part of a parcel number in the selected county. You first must specify the county, district, and map number to reduce returned results. Entering the parcel number will further narrow the search results.
Owner Name: This will search the parcels in the selected county for an owner's name. You do not need to enter the entire name to search. A search value of "Smith" and a search value of "Smith J" will both return Smith John in the results. The more information you provide, the narrower the result set will be. If you are entering first and last name, enter them in the format of LASTNAME FIRSTNAME.
Parcel search results are limited to 500 records and are listed on the Results page. Each result title will incorporate information relevant to the search type. Clicking an individual record will display its information, some additional links, and a "View in Map" button.
The first link will display more detailed property information from the Integrated Assessment System operated by the WV Property Tax Division, which consists of the following sections:
- Description (with external links to parcel assessment report and PDF map);
- Property Owner;
- Physical Address;
- Building Information;
- Cost Values;
- Appraised Values.
The second link will generate a URL link of the application and copy it to your clipboard. By opening the link, the map will be directly zoomed into the selected parcel, providing an easy way to share a parcel's information with others.
The third link will direct you to the Frequently Asked Questions page.
Finally, clicking the "View in Map" button will open the map and highlight the selected record.
If the parcel you are looking for can not be found, try refining your search.
Zooming in:
Zooming out:
Identifying parcels: Clicking, or touching, the map a single time on a visible parcel will attempt to identify it. Returned results will appear as a popup window with a Parcel ID. If more than one parcel is returned, you can scroll through the IDs with the left and right arrows. Clicking the larger arrow will open up the details about that particular parcel. The identify will not work until the map is zoomed in to the point that parcel boundaries appear.
Zooming to your current location: Clicking the button on the map will attempt zoom the map to your current location. The accuracy of the location depends on the capabilities of the device you are using.
Please note: You must have your device's Location Services ON to use this feature. In addition, you also need to give the web browser app (Safari, Chrome, etc.) permission to access your location.
Turning on/off layers:Clicking the Layers toggle buttons on the bottom of the map will show/hide the corresponding map layer, including Parcel boundaries, Address labels, and Flood zones. When the current map scale level is not within the scale range of a map layer, the button for that layer will be disabled.
In addition, on the upper-right side of the map, there are two buttons that allow the user to switch between Roads basemap and Imagery basemap. Only one of the two options can be selected at one time.
You should contact your local assessor about any errors you believe exist in your property record information, e.g., misspelled name, wrong street address, etc.
The property record information in the Viewer is updated annually when the WV Property Tax Division releases the new tax assessment information. If you recently purchased an existing piece of property and no property lines were altered (simple change of ownership of an existing piece of property), it is likely that the information has not filtered up to our site yet.
What if my property record is right, but the Viewer still shows the old parcel lines or my property parcel on the map does not exist? The property information available on the Viewer is provided in various forms to the State by the local county assessors. In some cases, the geometry (line work) is maintained electronically by the local assessor and moves quickly to the State and thus into the Viewer. In other cases, the county assessor maintains the geometry in a paper environment and it can take several years to be converted into a digital product and incorporated into the Viewer.
If your recent purchase resulted in new property lines being established (e.g. you purchased five acres out of a ten-acre property), the property will not appear on our site until after the county has submitted the parcel changes to the WV Property Tax Division. For property transfers occurring between July 1st and June 30, assessors are required to have tax maps revised and submitted to the WV Property Tax Division no later than February 1 of the subsequent calendar year. Therefore, contact your local assessor if your parcel lines on the tax map have not been updated after two years of the property transfer.
Many county assessors have their own parcel web viewers which are an alternative source to verify real estate property information. In addition, the assessor’s published full-version tax maps for the entire State can be accessed online.
A PDF file of any full-version tax map in can be accessed by a web browser using the following URL parameters: https://www.mapwv.gov/taxmaps/?m=02-04-037M (County Code - District No. - Map ID). Contact the office of your county assessor if you have questions about the parcel geometry or attributes.
Property maps, maintained by your local county assessor’s office, are a best-fit visualization of how all the properties in a county relate to one another. The property lines are determined by examining detailed property descriptions on deeds and by using surveys created by a licensed surveyor but are not conclusive evidence of property ownership in any court of law.
If you feel your property is drawn in error, you should contact your county assessor’s office and work with them to resolve the discrepancy. If you have a deed or survey of your property, that will be helpful to the assessor's office personnel. You can find the contact information for your local Assessor at this link.
No. The parcels represented here are for property tax assessment purposes only and do not represent legal boundaries of property. As co-custodians of the tax maps, the assessors and the WV Property Tax Division shall have no liability to any third party for any errors or omissions associated therewith or in connection with the use of tax maps for any other purpose.
In West Virginia the county assessor is responsible for maintaining the surface property tax maps. While this Viewer makes every effort to make the best available data accessible to the public, the office of the county assessor is always going to be the most accurate and up to date source for assessment information. Here is a link to contact information for county assessors in West Virginia.
The WV Property Tax Division annually creates a master surface tax parcel file from the GIS parcel files provided by the county assessors and the property attributes from the centralized Integrated Assessment System (IAS). Both the WV Property Tax Division and county assessors are co-custodians of the tax maps and GIS files.
The passing of SB 588 in July 2017 permitted the WV Property Tax Division to allow all digital surface tax maps and GIS files to be downloaded at no charge. These digital files can be downloaded from an authorized tax map distribution site located at the State Data Clearinghouse.
What about privacy concerns that your property information is posted on the Viewer? Recent court case decisions and approved legislation in West Virginia have deemed that property record information and maps are not private information. This includes the collection, storage, retrieval or aggregation of information about an individual that is publicly available from legal information found in deeds, property records, and property maps. Sensitive information such as telephone numbers and security alarm systems are redacted from the property records before released to the public.
The Parcel ID is a unique number that is the basis for identifying all parcels. The Parcel ID consists of six elements: County code, District code, Map number, Parcel Prefix, Parcel Suffix, and Special ID. All the elements are alpha-numeric characters except for the county and district codes which are numeric. The Root Parcel ID (e.g., 31-05-0007-0031-0015-0000) consists of all six elements separated by hyphens.
GIS Parcel ID: 31-05-0007-0031-0015
County: 31 (Monongalia County)
District: 05 (Clinton District)
Map: 7
Parcel Number: 31
Parcel Suffix: 15
The Viewer displays various formats of the Parcel ID. The GIS Parcel ID consists of all elements minus the Special ID (e.g., 31-05-0007-0031-0015) while the CAMA/IAS Parcel ID consists of all elements minus the county code (e.g., 05 7003100150000). The Viewer also displays abbreviated Parcel IDs in which leading zeros or spaces are removed. Examples include the parcel number search results that consist of the District-Map-Parcel (e.g., 05-7-31.15) or the parcel map labels denoted by Map-Parcel (e.g., 7-31.15).
The viewer identifies stacked parcels in the popup window. The Parcel Assessment Report displays assessment information at multiple buildings in a single parcel.
The Viewer only displays surface parcels and not mineral parcels. Contact the Mined Minerals GIS Section of the WV Property Tax Division regarding the availability of mineral tax maps and digital mineral parcels. Mineral tax maps and parcels are available for select counties.
The Viewer displays the 100-year effective flood hazard areas. It also includes high-risk Advisory A and Updated AE flood zones based on better topographic data and stream flood models. For more information about flood zone determinations, refer to the WV Flood Tool. The WV Flood Tool also has contact information for the local and state floodplain managers.
Flood Zone Legend:
Floodway – black diagonal lines
Effective Flood Zone (AE, AO, AH, A) - red
Advisory A / Updated AE - orange
The municipal and county addressing offices periodically submit up-to-date E-911 addresses to the Statewide Addressing and Mapping System (SAMS) maintained by the WV Division of Homeland Security & Emergency Management. Contact your local E-911 addressing office if your street address is not correct.
Deeded Acreage: The official acreage listed in the deed which is the historic record of conveyance for property ownership and the primary legal record defining the property and its boundaries.
Calculated Acreage: Derived from using mapping software or geographic information systems (GIS) to calculate the area or acreage of the geometry of a digital parcel. A calculated acreage provides a general estimate only. It is not the legally recognized acreage and should not be used for assessment purposes.
Since the tax map parcels are not mapped to “surveyor” scale, the calculated acreage should only be used as a reference or estimate. The deeded acreage is the authoritative source for tax assessment purposes in West Virginia. Paragraph 7.6.e.2. of the WV 189 CSR 3 "Statewide Procedures for the Maintenance and Publishing of Surface Tax Maps" states that if the deeded acreage does not match the calculated acreage, then the deeded acreage shall take precedence. If there is a large discrepancy between the deeded and calculated acreages, then contact the assessor.
A legal deed or certified survey records the dimensions or number of acres of real property. Typically, this information is recorded in the legal description of the property. Refer to this link for more information.
Yes. The Delinquent Lands are updated weekly on the WV Property Viewer (www.mapwv.gov/parcel) and viewable when the map layer for Delinquent Lands is made visible, or when adding "?dp=1" to the end of website URL. The West Virginia State Auditor's Office Delinquent Land Database also has a map link to the WV Property Viewer for viewing delinquent land parcels. The West Virginia State Auditor serves as Commissioner of Delinquent and Nonentered Lands, Ex-Officio. In this capacity, the State Auditor keeps records of lands nonentered to the State, sold for delinquent taxes and redeemed. Property owners have approximately eighteen months to redeem property before it is sold on the auction block. Refer to Delinquent Land FAQ for more information.