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Leelanau County Parcel Viewer access audit, 2026

Also Leelanau Parcel Viewer schema and Fox coverage audit

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TypeDataset
Date2026-08-02
WithinBeaver Island archipelago
ErasModern era
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Date
2026-08-02
Eras
Modern era
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governanceland-surveyhistoriography
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Beaver Island archipelago

Summary

A non-extractive 2026 access audit of Leelanau County’s public Parcel Viewer for the North and South Fox Islands finds that the public application exposes parcel, owner, and address-related fields, but its stated terms say GIS data are not freely downloadable. A Fox-frame count query returned zero parcel features.

Evidence and limits

The audit documents application availability, schema, stated access limits, and one spatial coverage result. It does not publish owner or address values, establish that the viewer is complete, or show that a zero Fox-frame count means there are no parcels, deeds, owners, mailing addresses, property rights, or historic transactions on either island.

Current assessor/GIS information is an administrative snapshot, not a title chain. Historical ownership research for the Foxes requires source-specific Leelanau deed, tract-book, patent, survey, or authorized-record retrieval.

See also

Sources

  1. Held non-extractive schema capture. The public viewer describes general parcel information and a yearly update cycle; the layer schema exposes owner and site/mailing-address fields, but the audit does not retrieve or reproduce parcel records or personal data. The viewer’s stated terms say the GIS data are not freely downloadable and disclaims map accuracy.
    county · leelanau · parcel_viewer · service_schema
  2. A non-extractive intersects/count query for the documented North/South Fox bounding frame returned zero features. This is a live-query coverage result, not evidence that the islands lack parcels, owners, addresses, deeds, or property rights.
    county · leelanau · parcel_viewer · fox_coverage
  3. Project provenance sidecars for the Leelanau Parcel Viewer schema and Fox-frame coverage audit.
    Records public ArcGIS endpoints, retrieval timestamps, checksums, query parameters, and the explicit non-extractive/data-access limitation; the paired coverage sidecar documents the zero-count query. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    county · leelanau · parcel_viewer · service_schema.provenance

Added 2 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Leelanau County Parcel Viewer access audit, 2026”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/leelanau-county-parcel-viewer-access-audit-2026/, accessed [date], citing Leelanau County, “Leelanau Parcel Viewer,” public ArcGIS Experience application and Tax_Parcels layer schema, audited 2 August 2026. (and 2 further sources listed on the page).

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