DirtFlight is not a drone photography service. To get aerial photos of land in Iowa, enter the county and the APN, or draw the boundary on the map or upload a file. The pack renders in about ten minutes: an outlined top down, four cardinal 3D views, an 18 second orbit video, a hosted listing page and a parcel info sheet, with full resolution files of every view. Nobody flies out, so there is no travel charge, and it works anywhere in Iowa. Dirt is $29 a parcel and Paydirt $79, or $199 a month for PayDirt Pro (20 Paydirt packs a month). Paydirt adds a contour map, the road frontage hero, the infrared land health view, the full social kit with platform captions, a posting plan and silent reels, pop-out photos from nine directions, the interactive 3D explorer and the measured diligence layers.
- Coverage
- All of Iowa
- Turnaround
- About 10 minutes
- Travel charge
- None, ever
- Imagery age
- One to three years
Almost all of it is worked, so the exceptions matter.
In Iowa the question is rarely whether ground is farmable. It is how much of the tract is not: the waterway, the timbered draw, the corner the terraces cut off, the acres along the creek that flood. Those are the acres that move a price, and they are the ones a road photo hides.
A tract in Adams County renders in the same ten minutes as one in Scott County, and terraces, waterways and field roads read clearly from above.
Boundaries are approximate and are not a survey.
One parcel. Everything below.
One parcel. Terraced on the south slope, a grassed waterway through the middle, and gravel along two sides.
Everything in the pack
This is the whole Iowa delivery.
Every view below came back from one parcel, in about ten minutes, with no pilot and no site visit.
Where Iowa land actually trades.
These are the counties land buyers ask about most.
Any Iowa county works: type the parcel number, draw the boundary on the map, or upload a KML, KMZ, GeoJSON or zipped shapefile. Try your APN free, and if a parcel will not come up from its number you hear that before anything is charged.
What to know before you order an Iowa parcel.
- Coverage
- Any Iowa county works: type the APN, draw the boundary on the map or upload a file. See coverage.
- Common land
- Row crop land, pasture, and timber and hunting ground, especially in the hillier south and northeast.
- Typical uses
- Farmland sales and auctions, pasture, hunting and recreation, and acreages near towns.
- Reads well from above
- Terraces and grassed waterways, field boundaries and tile outlets, timbered draws, creek bottoms and the acres along them.
- Your parcel number
- The number to look for is the parcel number on the assessment record.
- Boundary and imagery
- The boundary is approximate and is not a survey. Imagery is the most recent aerial available for that county, usually one to three years old.
Rules for splitting an Iowa tract differ by county, so start with the county planning office. How to subdivide land walks through the steps, subdivide land photos renders a pack for every lot from a plat or a drawn split, and land home packages screens where a home can go on a lot.
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Asked by people selling Iowa ground.
Which Iowa counties can you do?
Any Iowa county works. Send the county and the APN and DirtFlight renders the pack. If a parcel will not come up from its number, you hear that before anything is charged, and you can draw the boundary on the map or upload a KML, KMZ, GeoJSON or zipped shapefile instead. The pack comes back the same.
Which Iowa land is DirtFlight made for?
Row crop land, pasture, and timber and hunting ground, especially in the hillier south and northeast. Typical uses there: farmland sales and auctions, pasture, hunting and recreation, and acreages near towns.
Will terraces and waterways show up on the imagery?
They do. Terrace lines, grassed waterways, tile outlets and field roads all read from above, and the contour map shows how the ground falls across the tract. On Iowa row crop that is most of what a buyer wants to see.
Can I use this for an auction bill and a mailer?
That is what most Iowa sellers use it for. The pack comes sized for listing sites and for print, and Paydirt adds the full resolution files so the outlined top down holds up at auction-bill size.
Where do I find the parcel number for an Iowa tract?
In Iowa, the number to look for is the parcel number on the assessment record. Enter the county and the APN as it appears on the tax record, or a street address, and DirtFlight draws the boundary. If a parcel will not come up from its number, you are told before anything is charged, and you can draw the boundary on the map or upload a boundary file instead.
What can a buyer see from above on Iowa farmland?
Terraces and grassed waterways, field boundaries and tile outlets, timbered draws, creek bottoms and the acres along them. The boundary is drawn on every view, and the imagery is the most recent aerial available for that county, usually one to three years old, with the date on the pack.
List your Iowa parcel today.
Send the county and the APN, or draw the boundary on the map or upload a file. Free for a limited time.