Why isnt my parcel number found when searching?
San Juan County maintains both a parcel layer and a tax parcel layer. The parcel layer represents the legal boundaries of a given piece of property. The tax parcel layer represents how a given piece of property is broken up for tax purposes. There may be more than one tax parcel for a given parcel. As a result, the tax parcel numbers do not always match the parcel numbers, which can create problems when searching. Polaris searches on the tax parcel number. If you search for a parcel number and that number differs from the tax parcel number, then the parcel number will not be found. In many cases, the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth digits of a parcel number end in 000 while the tax parcel numbers typically end in 001, 002, etc. depending on the number of tax parcels for a given parcel. Note, that this is not always the case. Here is an example of how the parcel boundaries and numbers differ from tax parcel boundaries and numbers. Assume that the parcel and tax parcels are the same piece o
