DirtFlight is not a drone photography service. To get aerial photos of land in Pennsylvania, 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. 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 Pennsylvania
- Turnaround
- About 10 minutes
- Travel charge
- None, ever
- Imagery age
- One to three years
Ridge and valley, and most of it wooded.
Pennsylvania tracts sell on timber and hunting. What a buyer wants is where the ridge runs, how the hollow drains, where the old logging road comes in, and what abuts, especially state game land. Under a closed hardwood canopy none of it is visible on foot.
A tract in Potter County renders in the same ten minutes as a lot in Chester County, and old cuts, benches and hollows read clearly from above.
Boundaries are approximate and are not a survey.
One parcel. Everything below.
One parcel. Mature hardwood across the ridge, a bench with an old camp clearing, and a township road along the front.
Everything in the pack
This is the whole Pennsylvania delivery.
Every view below came back from one parcel, in about ten minutes, with no pilot and no site visit.
Where Pennsylvania land actually trades.
These are the counties land buyers ask about most.
Any Pennsylvania 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 a Pennsylvania parcel.
- Coverage
- Any Pennsylvania county works: type the APN, draw the boundary on the map or upload a file. See coverage.
- Common land
- Hardwood timber across the north and central ridges, farmland in the south and east, hunting and camp tracts, and mountain acreage.
- Typical uses
- Hunting and camp land, timber, farms, and rural homesites.
- Reads well from above
- Timber age and old cuts, ridges and hollows, creek bottoms, and any adjoining state game land or large forest tract.
- Your parcel number
- The number to look for is the parcel ID or tax map 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 a Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania ground.
Which Pennsylvania counties can you do?
Any Pennsylvania 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.
Does DirtFlight suit Pennsylvania hunting, camp and timber land?
Hardwood timber across the north and central ridges, farmland in the south and east, hunting and camp tracts, and mountain acreage. Typical uses there: hunting and camp land, timber, farms, and rural homesites.
Will old cuts and timber age show up?
Broadly, yes. Recent cuts, older cuts and mature hardwood read differently from above, and the boundary shows which of them is inside your line. It is not a cruise and does not estimate board feet.
Will adjoining state game land be visible?
The context map shows what surrounds the parcel, which is how most Pennsylvania buyers check whether the camp backs up to public ground. Neighboring ownership should still be confirmed with the county.
In Pennsylvania, what do I enter, the parcel ID or the tax map number?
In Pennsylvania, the number to look for is the parcel ID or tax map 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 stands out from above on Pennsylvania woods and ridges?
Timber age and old cuts, ridges and hollows, creek bottoms, and any adjoining state game land or large forest tract. 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 Pennsylvania parcel today.
Send the county and the APN, or draw the boundary on the map or upload a file. Free for a limited time.