The parcel map your township actually needs
Your county's GIS was built for the assessor. Parcel Explorer is built for the person who has to run a hearing on Thursday.
See a live county deployment at lackawannaconnect.com
Proof
Over 150,000 properties served. 17,000 pageviews and 10,000 residents a month, and growing — in one county, with no advertising.
Your residents are already looking up parcels. The question is whether they're doing it on something that reflects well on the township.
The product
Licensed software for counties and municipalities
Parcel Explorer is what you license — for a county, a community, a township, a borough. Lackawanna Connect is one live public deployment of that software: a demo of the output residents and staff actually use, not the product itself.
Same map stack. Your branding, your data sources, your municipalities. Built so a board can stand up something that looks like Lackawanna Connect without buying a one-off civic site.
The problem
Stated the way you'd state it
You get a parcel list from the Turnpike Commission, PennDOT, DEP, or a developer's engineer — and no way to see it on a map without leaving for desktop GIS.
You need a zoning district answer and you're paging through a PDF of a map that was printed in 2009.
You have a hearing coming, and building the list of property owners to notify means squinting at the county viewer and typing addresses by hand, on a deadline, where a mistake is grounds to challenge the hearing.
None of this is hard. All of it eats your week.
What it does today
Shipped and in use
Everything below is live in the Lackawanna County deployment — the reference implementation of what a licensed Parcel Explorer looks like in the wild.
Zoning districts, countywide.
Color-coded overlay across every municipality — the unified zoning map that doesn't exist anywhere else.
Bring your own parcel list.
Paste or upload tax parcel IDs from any source — a ROW tracking chart, a developer's submission, a tax sale list — and see them highlighted as a named layer you can share by link.
Owner search that maps.
Search by owner or entity, highlight every parcel they hold, and jump the map to the full portfolio.
A page for every parcel.
Shareable, linkable cards with ownership, assessed values, sales history, land use, and GIS details — current, not a screenshot from last year.
FEMA flood zones.
SFHA, floodway, and 0.2% annual chance overlays on the map, with a per-parcel flood readout when you need it for a hearing packet.
Lot dimension labels.
Metes-and-bounds feet along lot lines — useful when the PDF zoning map and the field don't quite agree.
Roads and PennDOT data.
Authoritative road centerlines and labels on every basemap, with traffic counts when you need corridor context.
Legislative districts.
U.S. Congressional and PA State House overlays, plus who represents the parcel you're looking at.
Who owns that LLC?
Opt-in PA Department of State business entity lookup from the parcel card — officers, registered office, entity status.
Land bank inventory.
Live from the county's own owner records, not a seven-year-old webpage — with deep links into the full parcel map.
In development
With a township, not for one
Notice radius lists.
Pick the subject parcel, get the owners and mailing addresses inside your ordinance's radius, plus a printable map exhibit for the record. Configured to your ordinance — your radius, your measurement basis, your standing recipients — not a generic buffer.
We're building this right now with a working township manager. If you want it built around how your township actually does it, this is the moment to say so.
Why this is different
Built for municipal work, not enterprise sales
Built from a zoning officer's complaints, not a feature matrix.
Every capability above started as a real request from a township manager in Lackawanna County.
No system to replace.
It runs alongside whatever the county has. Nothing to migrate, nothing to shut off.
Licensed for your place — not locked to ours.
Parcel Explorer is the software. Lackawanna Connect is one live county deployment — a public demo of the output, not the product you buy.
No RFP.
It's a small enough line item that your board can approve it at a meeting.
Local.
Built in Scranton, by someone who will answer the phone.
Pricing
Sized for a board vote, not an RFP
Flat annual per municipality or county, sized to sit under the informal-purchase threshold so a board vote is all that's required. Public map stays free for residents, always.
Parcel Explorer
From the team behind Lackawanna Connect
A Just Right Place product · Scranton, PA. Try the live demo.