City of Milwaukee  -  DISTRICT #5

The duties of Property Records consist of writing and maintaining the tax roll descriptions for all parcels within the city, making all combinations and splits, drawing new and updating old tax key number maps, assigning new or altering old key numbers and other duties as assigned.

We have a state of the art computer system.  Our mapping system was put in by the City Engineer.  The city utilizes the Intergraph Platform.  Our office is charged with the responsibility of adding property assessment levels to this system, such as addresses and tax key numbers.  We currently work with MicroStation 95 with NT 4.0.

Our office does the mapping for only the City of Milwaukee.  The Property Records section within the Milwaukee County Register of Deeds Department performs mapping for the remainder of the county.  We maintain about 9,600 to 10,000 tax maps.  These maps for the most part cover one city block with a block index for each ¼ section.  We create our own maps and they are in digital format.

The City of Milwaukee has 96 square miles with a 1990 population of approximately 600,000.  The city maintains about 160,000 real property tax parcels or about 180,000 parcels if you include personal property.