Every public fact about one East Texas town, kept where anyone can check it. What the council was asked and what the record answered. Fifty years of the numbers that matter. Every dataset the government publishes, and the ones it doesn't. The zoning, and the map underneath all of it.
Independent and unofficial. Every number carries its source. Nothing here is hand-maintained; the pages do arithmetic, not marketing.
The ten numbers people look up first about a town, each charted as far back as the public record goes, with 50, 25, 10, 5, 2, 1-year and year-to-date views. Six of them below.
See all ten →Every question asked at a city meeting, captured verbatim, restated in plain language, answered from the city's own documents, and timestamped back to the tape.
Every public dataset about this town, who publishes it, how current it is, where to get it. The records that should be public but aren't are listed in orange until they are.
The city's zoning code is published; the map is not. A live map of what is public, city limits and flood zones, with a layer armed for the day the map is released.
The town in layers: limits, flood, utilities, parcels, code cases, historic district. Layers go live one by one as verified sources land.
One open database of the monthly numbers that matter. Every value keeps its source URL and retrieval date; every revision is logged, never erased.
Federal, state, regional, and foundation money a small-staff city can actually reach, with deadlines, tracked in one place.
Population, income, poverty, jobs, home values, the tax rate, city spending, sales tax, crime, and school enrollment, each charted as far back as the public record goes, with every point sourced.
State routes and city streets, TxDOT projects, pothole reports, who to call, and the research on who takes care of the courthouse square.
What every kind of property in town is appraised at, how much of it is actually taxed, what the tax base is made of, and who owns and rents the homes. Parcel-level ownership comes next.
Every business with an active Texas sales tax permit at a Crockett outlet address, from the Comptroller's public list, by kind of business. Churches, most doctors and lawyers, and anyone who does not collect sales tax are not on it.
Plain-language notes on each meeting, every line linked to the meeting video. Oct. 5, 2026: Land use · Boards · Film · City charter · Grants.
Video timestamps come from unverified auto-captions. Official minutes not yet posted.
Watch the Oct. 5 meeting →Where the published record stops short. Each line is a document we could not find, not a claim that anything is wrong.
| Check | pass | flag | other |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agenda posted 72 hours ahead | 33 | 1 | 2 |
| Agenda items specific enough | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| Closed session cites a legal section | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| Closed-session action taken in open | 14 | 0 | 2 |
| Item has backup in packet | 0 | 23 | 3 |
| Nothing acted on off-agenda | 30 | 1 | 3 |
| Minutes adopted | 27 | 5 | 2 |
A flag means a document was missing from the public record, not that the law was broken.
Scans of the Crockett Courier from 1949 through 1953, organized by year and month. Each PDF shows the original scan first, followed by a draft automated reading copy.