Wondering who owns a piece of land? Want clear directions to any place in Park County? Not sure if the assessor’s office has valued your property correctly or how much you owe in property taxes?

The answers to all those questions lie within a few clicks of a mouse or taps of a finger, thanks to Park County’s online MapServer and iTax services. As the county website pitches, “Use our online services to help you pay fees, research information, and look up property from the comfort of your own home.”

MapServer — accessible at maps.greenwoodmap.com/park/ — allows online visitors to easily look up a piece of property’s assessed value, ownership and size, among other data. As for iTax — online at itax.tylertech.com/ParkWY/ — it offers a history of a parcel’s assessed property taxes, lists whether those taxes have been paid and offers property owners an opportunity to pay online (for a fee).

Though the data was only put online within the last decade, all of the information has always been public and available to anyone who requests it.

Park County Assessor Pat Meyer spearheaded the data’s move to the web in 2011.

“It’s all public information, so we want to be as transparent as we can,” he said.

Meyer said the service has proven “really popular” with realtors, insurers and taxpayers.

Putting the information online has significantly cut down the time the office’s staff spends answering questions over the phone and at the front counter, Meyer said. Further, when a taxpayer questions the value assigned to their property, Meyer said MapServer makes it much easier for him to point out comparable parcels — and to check for errors.

“All in all, I think it’s been the most positive thing since I started out,” said Meyer, who’s served as assessor since 2011.

On MapServer, users can search and locate properties using the name of a property owner or the address — or they can simply browse a neighborhood or city using an interactive, clickable map. The data includes the square footage of any buildings on the parcel, the acreage, the address, the date the property last changed hands and its estimated market value.

For instance, flipping through the three parcels that make up Monster Lake Ranch — which Kanye West acquired in 2019 — reveals that the 3,885 acres are currently owned through a limited liability company called Psalm Cody Ranch and have a total market value of $1.25 million. (The value is lower than it might otherwise be because much of the land is assessed at the lower agricultural rate.)

There are also photos of the few buildings that remain on the ranch and sketches of their physical footprints.

If landowners ask, Meyer will remove photos and sketches of their properties from the website — though they remain public information and available by request. 

“I’ll take them off for anybody who doesn’t want them, but we haven’t took one off for quite some time now,” Meyer said last week. He noted that images of homes appear online in various other locations, such as on Google Maps or on realtor websites when a property is put up for sale.

In the online application, the county map can be overlaid with various information, including school district boundaries, voter precincts, zoning areas, flood zones, roads, rivers and streams and house numbers. The site also features aerial photography from 2009, 2012, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2020, providing an opportunity to track how Park County’s landscape has changed and development has progressed over the past decade.

Other tools allow users to measure distances from one location to another and to measure the size of a given area. Users can also look at plats.

A separate database maintained by the Park County Clerk’s Office, called iDoc, includes records such as deeds, mortgages and liens. Access to that database costs $10 a day, $25 a month or $100 a year and goes back to about the mid-1990s. Older records are maintained in a separate database, ArcaSearch, which has access options ranging from $10 a day to $1,000 per year.

Taxpayers can also use the iDoc and ArcaSearch databases for free by using terminals with the clerk’s office at the Park County Courthouse.

Links to the MapServer, iTax, iDoc and ArcaSearch databases can be found by visiting parkcounty-wy.gov/online-services/.