Goochland County GIS Parcel Viewer Going Offline March 14, Alternatives Offered

Goochland County posted a brief administrative notice Tuesday warning that its online GIS Parcel Viewer will be unavailable this Saturday, March 14. The county's Administration department published the alert on the county website March 11, giving users three days' notice before the outage takes effect.

The notice is characteristically sparse. "Attention! The GIS Parcel Viewer will be unavailable on Saturday, March 14th. Thank you for your patience and understanding," reads the county's full statement. No reason for the outage is provided, nor does the notice specify whether the system will be down for the entire day or only during certain hours. The county also did not indicate when the viewer would return to service or whether it would post a restoration notice.

The GIS Parcel Viewer is a widely used public tool that allows residents, real estate professionals, title researchers, and others to access property parcel data for Goochland County. Saturday outages can be particularly disruptive for professionals working weekend transactions or preparing Monday closings.

The county's general contact information appears alongside the notice on the county website. The Administration offices at 1800 Sandy Hook Road are open Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., excluding holidays, and can be reached at 804-556-5800. As Saturday falls outside those hours, anyone needing parcel data on March 14 should plan to retrieve what they need before the system goes offline or wait until county offices reopen Monday morning.

The outage notice appeared alongside several other active county items, including an EP & L (Energov) system upgrade notice, an early voting announcement for the 2026 April Special Election, and information about community meetings on the Valley Link Transmission Line Project. Whether the parcel viewer outage is related to the Energov upgrade was not addressed in the county's posting.

Residents who want to receive future county notices automatically can create an account on the county website, which supports notification subscriptions. The county also maintains active channels on Facebook, Instagram, X, and YouTube where updates may appear.