Every property in the county, and how to pay for what you want to do with it.

Build Scotts Bluff is a free public map of all 21,313 parcels in Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska. Click any lot and it shows who owns it, what it is worth, what it pays in tax, what it last sold for, and which of 87 grant, loan and incentive programs it may qualify for- each one cited to the office that runs it.

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The problem

The facts that decide a property project are real, public, and scattered. Ownership and value sit with the assessor. Tax and delinquency sit with the treasurer. Sales sit in the register of deeds. Income and poverty figures that decide grant eligibility sit with the Census Bureau. The programs themselves sit across 62 separate offices, from a city economic development fund to a federal loan guarantee, each with its own rules and its own website.

Nobody joins them. So the question "what could I do with this lot, and who would help pay for it?" takes days of phone calls, and most people never ask it. The work gets done by whoever already knows which office to call- which is a small number of people, in every small county.

What it does

It joins them, keeps them current automatically, and answers the question per property with the rule cited. Everything below is live data on the site right now, not a mock-up.

21,313

parcels mapped

funding programs, cited

administering offices

13,169

jobs, Q4 2025

$4,493

average monthly pay

102

on the county tax-sale list

4,262

tax-sale records, 73 NE counties

upcoming public meetings

Sources: Scotts Bluff County Assessor and Treasurer, Nebraska Taxes Online, U.S. Census Bureau (ACS and LEHD Quarterly Workforce Indicators), each funding program's administering office, and the county's own published calendar. Every figure carries its source and the date it was observed. Refreshed nightly.

See it work

Five things to try, in order. Each link opens the live site- nothing here is a recording.

1

Look up any property

Search an address or click a lot. You get the owner of record, assessed value, the full property-tax history by year, what it last sold for, zoning, and whether it is behind on taxes. No account, no fee, no limit.
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2

Ask what it qualifies for

The same lot, run against every program on file. The answer names the program, what it pays for, how much, and the office to call- and cites the rule, so you can check it before you act on it.
See the Programs
3

Find money for a specific job

Narrow to what you are actually doing: fixing a roof, opening a shop, building workforce housing, rehabilitating a downtown facade, buying farm ground.
Housing and Workforce Housing
4

Get the numbers a grant application asks for

Jobs, wages by industry, population, median household income, poverty, home value and rent- from the Census Bureau, current, and quotable with the citation already attached.
Workforce and Wage Data
5

Find out who to call

Every office that runs a program here, local first, each linked to its own page. This site publishes the rules; those offices take the applications.
Who Runs What

Everything it holds

Property. Ownership, legal description, zoning and classification, assessed land and improvement value, and geometry for all 21,313 parcels across 10 communities and the unincorporated county.
Money owed and paid. Property tax by year back to 1998, where each dollar goes (schools, city, county, ESU, NRD), and current delinquency and tax-sale standing.
Sales. Recorded transfers and sale history per parcel.
Funding. 87 grant, loan, tax-credit and incentive programs across 62 offices, with what each funds, the amounts, and a link to the administering office.
People and jobs. Census ACS figures for every community, and quarterly employment and earnings by industry from the Census Bureau's LEHD program.
Distressed property. The county's advertised delinquent tax-sale list, plus the same list for 73 Nebraska counties- 4,262 records in total.
Overlays. TIF and redevelopment areas, CDBG low-to-moderate-income areas, Opportunity Zones, floodplain-risk ground, and existing subsidised developments.
Public meetings. 98 upcoming county meetings, hearings and sheriff's sales, linked to the county's own notice.
An assistant that stays on the facts. Ask a question in plain words and get an answer drawn from this data with its citation. The model runs in your own browser, so the question never leaves your device.

Who it is for

Homeowners and residentsWhether help exists for a roof, a furnace, a down payment, or a house that needs work- and who to ask.

Small business and farmsWhat a building costs, what it owes, and which loan or incentive fits the plan.

City, village and county staffOne place for parcel facts, eligibility context, and the programs a project can stack.

Economic development and housing groupsSite and building options with their tax and overlay status already attached.

Grant writers and administratorsThe cited figures an application asks for, ready to quote.

Investors and lendersDelinquency, tax-sale standing, sale history and valuation across the whole county, and 72 more.

How it is built, and why that matters

Cited, not guessed. Funding answers are produced by a deterministic rules engine against published program rules, and every answer names its first-party source. It does not improvise.
Current by machinery, not by memory. The whole set refreshes on an automated nightly schedule that publishes the site and then verifies the live site actually changed.
It works offline. The map and its data are cached on the device, so it keeps working in a basement, a field, or a courthouse with no signal.
It is checked. 1,220 passing across 21 suites, 0 failing across 61,999 lines of first-party code. Tests run before every publish, and a failing one stops the release.

How it pays for itself

People use it free, with no account. The revenue side is machines: an AI agent or developer can buy the same clean data per call over an open machine-payment standard, without a subscription or an API key. That keeps the public side free and keeps the data worth maintaining.

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Common questions

What is Build Scotts Bluff?

A free public map of all 21,313 parcels in Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska, joined to the property tax record, sale history, census figures, workforce data, and the 87 grant, loan and incentive programs that reach the county. Pick any lot and it shows what that specific property qualifies for, with the rule cited to the office that wrote it.

What does it cost to use?

Nothing for people. There is no account, no sign-up and no paywall on the map, the program rules or the data pages. Automated AI agents that call the data API pay per call in USDC; that is the revenue side, and it is separate from the public site.

Where does the data come from?

Public records and first-party sources: the county assessor and treasurer, Nebraska Taxes Online, the U.S. Census Bureau, and each funding program administrator. Every figure carries its source and the date it was observed, and the whole set is refreshed on an automated nightly schedule.

Why is some of the data from last year?

Because that is when the agency published it. Government statistics are released on a schedule: the Census Bureau builds its workforce figures from employer wage filings and posts a quarter once it is complete, so the newest available for this county is Q4 2025. This site always shows the newest published figure and names its date rather than guessing at a fresher one. County records- ownership, tax, sales, delinquency- refresh nightly and are current.

Who is it for?

Anyone deciding what to do with a piece of property or how to pay for it: homeowners, small business owners, farmers, contractors, realtors, lenders, city and county staff, economic development and housing organisations, grant writers, and investors looking at tax-sale or distressed property.

Try it, or get in touch

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Build Scotts Bluff is built and run by Steve Pederzani in Gering, Nebraska- a Nebraska-certified CDBG administrator. For a walkthrough, a workshop, a demonstration for your board, or a question about the data, write to [email protected].