Blog · October 13, 2026 · Pennsylvania
Butler County Plat Map: Parcels, Owners and Property Lines
Open the official Butler County parcel viewer, find an owner or a vacant tract, and learn which land records back up what the map shows.
Main page: Butler County, PA GIS & Parcel Viewer (official map link, Butler County facts and neighboring maps).
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Ground near Slippery Rock Creek or a house lot in Chicora: either way, the Butler County plat map is the free starting point for owner names, acreage and lines.
This guide walks through the official link, the kinds of land you'll find around Bruin, and what to do when the map and the ground don't agree.
Getting into the PASDA Pennsylvania Tax Parcels viewer
For Butler County, the free parcel map comes from the state. Open PASDA Pennsylvania Tax Parcels viewer and zoom in on the county. Use the search box to find a Butler County parcel by owner name, address or parcel number, or zoom in and click a lot to open its record. Our Butler County, PA page keeps the current link if the official address changes.
The lay of the land in Butler County
Butler is the county seat, and other towns on the map include Bruin, Callery, Cherry Valley, and Chicora. The map also labels unincorporated places, Fernway, Forestville, and Homeacre-Lyndora among them. Butler County covers about 789 square miles of land; its 2023 population estimate from the Census Bureau was 198,413. Around Chicora and Bruin nearly every click lands on a platted lot, so the few remaining open parcels are easy to pick out. Watch how parcels line up along the Slippery Rock Creek; waterfront tracts often have odd shapes because the deed follows the water. Public ground such as Moraine State Park and McConnells Mill State Park appears as large unbroken blocks, and the private parcels around them draw hunters and recreation buyers.
Who uses the Butler County parcel map
Builders bidding a house on a lot in Bruin start with the parcel ID and legal description, since permit paperwork usually asks for both. Someone house hunting in Chicora can check whether a yard really is as big as the listing implies, and who owns the open lot behind it. Raw-land buyers scan Butler County imagery for empty tracts and check the owner records behind them.
Acreage and vacant lot search
Five steps for vacant land in Butler County:
- Turn on the photo basemap and work outward from Cherry Valley one road at a time, flagging parcels with no buildings.
- Check who owns each open tract near East Butler and where the tax bill goes.
- Measure the road frontage on the map; a sliver of frontage on a road outside Callery may not be enough for a driveway permit.
- Size up price by comparing a few similar tracts around Cherry Valley on the assessment records.
- Ask the local offices serving Cherry Valley about building permits and septic rules before you buy.
For a tract near Callery with no road frontage, see how to tell if land is landlocked.
Reading property lines on the Butler County plat map
Zoom in far enough on a lot in Chicora and you may notice lines crossing driveways or splitting sheds, a normal quirk of tax mapping. Out toward Homeacre-Lyndora, boundaries follow bearings and old landmarks rather than a grid, and the parcel layer shows it. For a fence, an addition or a dispute in Butler County, budget for a licensed survey; it's the answer a court or a lender will accept.
Behind the map: land records in Butler County
The map near Bruin is only as good as the deeds behind it, and those are kept in the county's recording office. Which office that is depends on how Pennsylvania organizes it, so look it up on the Butler County government site before you call. Copy the parcel ID and legal description before you call or visit; recording staff can find a Butler County document much faster with them.
Work and land use in Butler County
Butler County had 5,067 business establishments in 2022 (County Business Patterns), led by retail trade, health care and social assistance, and other services. What stands out is petroleum and coal products manufacturing, primary metal manufacturing, and nonmetallic mineral product manufacturing: those sectors make up a much larger slice of local businesses than they do nationally. Manufacturing jobs in the county help keep house lots and small acreage in demand, including around Callery. Keep that in mind when you compare parcels in Butler County: who works here shapes what land sells.
Nearby parcel maps
Butler County shares borders with Allegheny County, Armstrong County, Beaver County, Clarion County, and Lawrence County, and each one runs its own parcel map and recording office. Neighboring maps for Butler County are a click away on our Pennsylvania page.
Quick answers
How do I find property lines in Butler County?
Map first, then the recorded plat or deed, then a survey: that order works for any boundary question in Butler County.
How do I look up a property owner in Butler County, PA?
Search by address if the lot near Chicora has one; otherwise click the tract on the map to see the owner of record.
Does the Butler County parcel map show where I can hunt?
Use it to find the owner of a woodlot near Cherry Valley, then ask; the map itself grants no hunting rights.
Why does the Butler County map show the old owner?
Ownership updates lag behind recording. A deed for land near Chicora may be filed but not yet processed into the tax roll.
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Not a survey. County GIS and tax parcel maps are assessment and planning layers. They are not a substitute for a recorded plat, deed, or licensed survey, especially for fences, setbacks, or boundary disputes.