Mecklenburg County, NC POLARIS

Welcome to Mecklenburg County's
Property Ownership Land Records Information System
(Formerly Known as the GIS Real Estate System)

2003 NACo and 2004 Charlotte Chamber of Commerce Blue Diamond Award Winning Site

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Welcome to Mecklenburg County's Property Ownership Land Records Information System (POLARIS). This site is designed to help you quickly and easily locate GIS maps and associated real estate information. This web page is a public resource for general information. These maps are prepared for the real property inventory within this Mecklenburg County. They are compiled from recorded deeds, survey plats, and other public records and data. Users of these maps are notified that the public primary information sources should be consulted for verification of the information contained on these maps. The City of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County Government make no representations about the suitability of the information contained in the documents and related graphics published on this server for any purpose. All such documents and related graphics are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. City of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County hereby disclaim all warranties and conditions with regard to this information, including all implied warranties and conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement. In no event shall the City of Charlotte or Mecklenburg County Government be liable for any special, indirect or consequential damages, or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data, or profits, whether in an action of contract, negligence, or other tortuous action, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of information available from this server.

The documents and related graphics published on this server could include technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. Changes are periodically added to the information herein. The City of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County Government may make improvements and/or changes in the document(s) and/or the program(s) described herein at any time.

In no event shall the City of Charlotte and/or Mecklenburg County Government be liable for any special, indirect, or consequential damages or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data, or profits, whether in an action of contract, negligence or other tortuous action, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of software, documents, provision of, or failure to provide services or information available from this server.

Mecklenburg County offers over a dozen online GIS applications. Click here to visit the home page of GIS Application Development where the applications are described in detail. It is possible that one of these other applications will be more suitable for your research needs.

For faster performance, 64 MB of RAM is recommended. The application is best used with a fast Internet connection. If you have a 56K or slower connection, maps could take several minutes to load and performance would probably be unsatisfactory. Supported Internet browsers include Internet Explorer 5.x (or higher), Netscape 6.x (or higher), or Mozilla 1.0 (or higher). Subscribers to Internet service providers (ISP), which have their own browser software (such as AOL), should NOT use the ISP browser when using this application. Once your Internet connection has been established, open up one of the three supported browsers to access the system. ISP-provided browsers generally put an outside wrapper around the Internet window that remains active and cannot be minimized. These wrappers take up too much screen space and will not allow satisfactory viewing of the Polaris System.

This application will run with smaller monitors and screen resolution settings, but for optimum viewing, the application should be viewed with 17" monitors (or larger) that have screen resolutions set to 1024 x 768 (From the Start Menu, select Settings/Control Panel/Display and on the Settings tab, change the screen area to 1024 x 768 pixels). Also, the application should be used with the browser window fully maximized and the favorites navigation side-panel closed. This will provide the entire window for map and application viewing.