Things you check, not things you read
Tools
Most of the maps here answer a question once. These answer it again tomorrow. Some query a city's own server the moment you open them and keep no copy at all; the rest let you search a dataset for the one record you care about.
- 8 tools
- 5 read live from the source
Live
Fort Worth permits, live
Fort Worth publishes its permit workflow as a live service. Search a permit and watch it move from Plan Review to Issued — no phone call.
Live
Texas Fire Watch — live drought, burn bans and wildfire
How dry Texas is, which counties have banned burning, and what is on fire — read fresh from the source every time the page loads.
Live
What's dug up in Dallas right now
Live from the city: every open permit to dig up a Dallas street. Gas, water, sewer, paving — who is digging and when they said they would be done.
Live
Where Texas is burning right now
The Ross Fire has burned 88,000 acres west of Fort Worth — 95% of everything alight in Texas.
Lookup
Dallas County appraisals 2026 — every parcel, and how it compares
Find your property, then see whether your appraisal moved like the rest of your street.
Lookup
Texas retail mapper
Every Whataburger. Every H-E-B. Every Dollar General. Search 1.7 million Texas places, map them, and export the ones on your screen.
Lookup
What Fort Worth is building
57,276 building permits since 2024, $42.5 billion of work — including $4.15bn of data centres.
What makes something a tool
Live means the page holds no data. It queries the agency's own service when you load it, so it is current to whatever the agency published last and it goes blank if they go down. That is the trade: a stale copy that looks current is worse than nothing.
Lookup means the data is ours and does not change by the hour, but the point is to find your parcel, your permit, your street — not to read the whole thing.
Everything here is free, needs no account, and says on the page where its numbers came from and what they cannot tell you.