“All these lines weren’t here,” says Chief Tax Appraiser Roy Dobbs, pointing at a digital map of the county, explaining how the county tax digest jumped a record $500,000,000 in taxable property over the past year and is more than $1 billion higher than in 2020.
The lines Dobbs is referring to are new parcel lines where properties once owned by timber companies are now residential lots, many of which already sport houses that sell for more than $600,000.
A review of the county’s five-year history (see Page 10B) reveals that this year, the value of taxable property was recorded at $2,951,241,541; last year, it was $2,472,615,379. In 2020, the gross digest was $1,637,371,344. As a comparison, in 1995 it was $292,575,111…