# County Pulse

> A free public map of what's changing in Columbia County and Augusta-Richmond County, Georgia: what's filed,
> scheduled and opening within 1 and 3 miles of any address, read from public county records. Built by Agent
> Augusta (agentaugusta.com). This is a preview, and feedback is welcome.

This page is a plain-text guide for AI agents and crawlers. The site itself is a JavaScript map app, so a fetch of
the home page returns little text. Use a real browser to see it, or use the links below.

Updated 2026-10-31.

## Who it's for

- Residents: "what's being built near me?", "is a data center coming?", "is my street in a flood zone?"
- Real estate agents: home sales and typical prices by town, new subdivisions, which subdivisions are nearly sold out.
- Business owners: new storefronts opening nearby, building permits by trade, traffic counts on nearby roads.

## What's on the page

- **Map:** each shaded shape is a patch of ground a little over a mile across, lit only when at least 3 things
  happened inside it in the month shown, so no single home can be picked out. The bar chart at the bottom replays
  12 months, one month at a time.
- **Search box (top left):** type an address or a place. The counties' own address search suggests matches as you
  type. The answer shows what's filed or scheduled within 1 and 3 miles.
- **Tabs (right side):**
  - Near you: the address answer.
  - Coming soon: big named projects (data centers, stores, developments) and what stage each is at.
  - Latest: public records and local headlines, pinned to the map.
  - Ask: a chat that answers from the same records, and counts homes by year built, bedrooms, lot size, pool,
    last sale or price band live from both counties' parcel rolls (counts only, countywide or around a place).
  - For business: what the data can do for a business, and the free AI Business Audit offer.

## Links an agent can use

Every answer has a shareable link. These open the page with the answer already showing:

- Ask a question: https://county-pulse.pages.dev/?ask=what's%20coming%20near%204500%20Washington%20Rd%20Evans
- More questions to try:
  - https://county-pulse.pages.dev/?ask=how%20many%20homes%20sold%20in%20evans%20last%20month
  - https://county-pulse.pages.dev/?ask=what%20do%20homes%20sell%20for%20in%20grovetown
  - https://county-pulse.pages.dev/?ask=which%20subdivisions%20are%20nearly%20sold%20out
  - https://county-pulse.pages.dev/?ask=where%20are%20the%20data%20centers
  - https://county-pulse.pages.dev/?ask=how%20many%20solar%20permits%20in%20augusta%20this%20year
  - https://county-pulse.pages.dev/?ask=how%20many%20homes%20in%20evans%20were%20built%20before%202005
  - https://county-pulse.pages.dev/?ask=how%20many%20homes%20with%20a%20pool%20in%20columbia%20county
  - https://county-pulse.pages.dev/?ask=what%20is%20the%20%2417%20billion%20google%20data%20center%20deal
  - https://county-pulse.pages.dev/?ask=is%204500%20washington%20rd%20evans%20in%20a%20flood%20zone
  - https://county-pulse.pages.dev/?ask=how%20much%20traffic%20near%204500%20washington%20rd%20evans
  - https://county-pulse.pages.dev/?ask=evans%20or%20grovetown%20for%20a%20dental%20office
- One Coming soon project: https://county-pulse.pages.dev/?soon=white-oak
- One month of the map: https://county-pulse.pages.dev/?month=2026-05 (any month in the replay, 2025-10 to 2026-09)

The chat is answered by Claude Haiku behind a bot check. Automated browsers usually fail the bot check, and then
the page answers with its own built-in engine. Those answers use the same records but understand fewer phrasings.

## Where the data comes from, and how current it is

County records show these figures as of each source's latest published date. Public records lag reality.

| Data | Source | Current through |
|---|---|---|
| Home sales, Columbia County | Columbia County GIS sales records | October 2026 |
| Home sales, Augusta-Richmond | Augusta GIS sales records | June 2026 (the county publishes sales with a delay) |
| Building permits | Augusta-Richmond permits | October 2026 (Columbia County publishes no permits) |
| New homes, Columbia County | U.S. Census Building Permits Survey, county counts | September 2026 |
| New addresses | Address points each county created, past 12 months | October 2026 |
| New storefronts | Columbia County business certificates (records request) | August 2026 |
| Rezonings and hearings | County agendas and meeting calendars, checked daily | daily |
| Big projects | Georgia DCA regional-impact filings, county news releases, local headlines | daily |
| Flood zones | FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer, looked up live | live |
| Traffic counts | Federal road inventory (HPMS 2025), from GDOT counts | 2025 |

The map data is rebuilt every morning at 6 AM Eastern.

## What it will not do, by design

- No owner names, and no home addresses of individual sales. Sales are only shown in patches of 3 or more.
- No single home's value ("what's my house worth").
- No tax delinquency, liens or distressed-owner lists.
- No crime, school rankings or "best neighborhood" opinions (fair-housing rules).
- Nothing outside Columbia County and Augusta-Richmond County yet (no South Carolina, no neighboring counties).

## Feedback we'd most like

- Is it clear within 10 seconds what the site does and what to type?
- Which answers were wrong, confusing or too long? Include the share link.
- What question did you expect it to answer that it couldn't?
- For agents, business owners and residents: what would make you come back every week?
- Anything broken on a phone.

Send feedback to ky@agentaugusta.com.

Terms and privacy: https://county-pulse.pages.dev/about.html (County Pulse is not an official record, and nothing on it is advice).