Lackawanna Connect has launched the Parcel Explorer — an interactive map of every parcel in Lackawanna County (more than 100,000), combining county GIS boundaries with assessor CAMA data: certified values, sales history, and property detail the county already publishes, organized so you can search by address or parcel id (UPI) without jumping between separate county websites.

Try it: Open Parcel Explorer

Why we built it

Property information in Lackawanna County has always been public, but it lives in different places: the GIS map, the Assessor property card (iasWorld), and Recorder of Deeds filings. The Explorer brings the first two together in a single, mobile-friendly map so residents, reporters, and researchers can answer basic questions faster — what parcel is this address, what is it assessed at, what sales appear on the assessor sales tab, and where is the lot line.

Daily transaction reports

Separately, Lackawanna Connect Data Desk publishes daily summaries of deed instruments from the Lackawanna County Recorder, with assessor-verified sale prices folded in when they appear on the County Assessor site. When a deed has already recorded but public assessor pricing is not available yet, we mark that row as provisional so it is easy to see what is verified versus still pending on the Assessor side. New digests usually go live in the early morning (around 6 a.m. on a typical day).

Together with the Explorer, the aim is a single, unified read on county property activity — what recorded, how it lines up with assessor data when that data exists, and where the parcel sits on the map — as current as the county systems we pull from, without asking people to bounce between the Recorder portal, iasWorld, and the GIS map on their own.

Agents and others who watch closings have told us they appreciate seeing meaningful transactions surface in the digest soon after they record; timing always depends on when instruments hit the Recorder and when the Assessor updates, but the pipeline is built for speed and clarity on top of the same public records everyone else uses.

Each parcel mentioned in those reports now includes a direct link to its Parcel Explorer record, so readers can move from a recorded transaction to the full assessor view in one click.

Data notes

Figures come from county sources and reflect what those systems show on a given day; Recorder recording dates and Assessor sale dates can differ. Always verify material facts with the official county sites. Lackawanna Connect is an independent local publisher and is not affiliated with Lackawanna County government.

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