Maricopa County Assessor's Office Parcel Viewer Help

Selecting Features

The Parcel Viewer provides many layers to view. In addition to viewing the physical boundary of features you can also view underlying attribute data by clicking on a feature.

There are 5 selectable layers:

  • MapIDs
  • Subdivisions
  • Parcels
  • Sections
  • Zip Codes

Checked Selectable Layers in the Layers tool are selectable. The parcel viewer is capable of selecting individual or multiple features.


How to Select Features

  1. From the Layers tool, expand the Selectable Layers. By default, only Parcels are selectable.

  2. Check the layers you want to be selectable and uncheck the one you don’t want to be selectable.

  3. Click on a feature to view its information. If the Feature Information panel is on it will be populated with data from the feature you clicked. If the Feature Information panel is off a popup will appear in the map and be populated with data from the feature you clicked.

  4. When multiple features are selected click the arrows in the top right to toggle between selected features.

Use the Search By Tool to Select Features Using the Mouse

There are 6 shape search options available:

  • Point
  • Line
  • Polyline
  • Extent
  • Circle
  • Polygon
  • Freehand Polygon


  1. Determine search action
    1. Create new results (default option)
    2. Add to current results
    3. Remove from current results

  2. Select a Search Layer.

  3. Select which shape type you want to Select features by
    1. To buffer a shape check Buffer Grapic and enter a search distance.

  4. The request will be processed when a shape is placed.
    1. When Enable multi-part selections is checked place multiple shapes then click Search for the request to be processed

  5. Results will appear in the map and Search Tool results tab.