Research property near SpaceX’s Starbase with Texas public records

1. Start with a documented location

The FAA identifies SpaceX’s Boca Chica launch site in Cameron County, Texas. Use that location to choose the county records you need. FAA project page.

A June 1, 2026 Fish and Wildlife Service assessment describes a proposed exchange of roughly 715 refuge acres for roughly 683 acres it identifies as privately owned by Space Exploration Technologies Corp. The areas are along SH 4 in Starbase and near SH 100 in Laguna Vista. The maps identify two areas to investigate. The assessment does not confirm that the exchange closed. FWS assessment and maps.

Use the document’s maps to define the project boundary before deciding which parcels are “nearby.” Do not use a company’s mailing ZIP as its property location.

2. Search company names with Python

Install Python 3.11 or newer, download and unzip the demo, and open a terminal in the extracted folder. No account, API key, or pip packages are required.

python3 texas_business_demo.py --name "Space Exploration" --limit 5

On Windows, use py -3 in place of python3. Change the name to a specific business you want to research. The limit caps the exported rows; it does not change the government search’s result count.

3. Read the business lookup results

On September 4, 2026, the search returned eight name matches. The sample saved the first five, shown below. Similar names can belong to unrelated businesses.

Texas business lookup | c4573.org
Retrieved (UTC): 2026-09-05T00:57:08.176484+00:00
Source: Texas Comptroller public search
Query: Space Exploration
Returned: 8 | Exported: 5

entity_name,taxpayer_number,mailing_zip
SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP.,10106276719,90250
SPACE EXPLORATION RESEARCH GROUP,32002278730,75752
SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES,32018585318,
SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION,32062151348,
SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION,32062151413,

Saved: businesses.csv + businesses.json
Search snapshot only; not a certificate or complete filing record.

Download sample CSV · Inspect sample JSON and source URL

The kit’s comptroller_franchise scraper returned the same names for this query and five-row limit. View the dated kit validation.

4. Use the exports

texas-business-output/businesses.csv contains the entity name, Texas taxpayer number, and mailing ZIP. Import identifier and ZIP columns as text in your spreadsheet. The JSON also records the query, retrieval time, source URL, and returned/exported counts.

Re-running replaces those two output files. To preserve another lookup, add --output another-folder. You can run the sample as often as needed for individual lookups; avoid repeated requests in a tight loop.

5. Query Cameron County with the kit

Texas Scraper Kit v1.0.2 includes Cameron County in the property CLI. The agent session above uses the county’s True Prodigy appraisal source. This command belongs to the kit; the free business sampler above does not include property searches.

texas-scrape property search --county cameron --owner "SPACE EXPLORATION" --limit 3 --output cameron.json

The September 4, 2026 run exported parcels 460312, 460313, and 460314, each listing SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP as owner and Esperson Street as the address. In that earlier check, an exact-account lookup for 460312 matched the owner and parcel ID on the official county page. That page shows a 2026 market value of $182,396; an appraisal value is not a purchase price. Its disclaimer says 2026 information is a work in progress.

Three-record export · Exact-account export · Recording date and provenance

6. Check the source and follow the deeds

The owner option performs a full-text search. Review each result and follow its source link before drawing conclusions about ownership or location. The appraisal query does not establish a purchase date.

1. Open Cameron Appraisal District’s property search and its map search. Start with the named company and the project area in the FWS maps. Record the parcel ID, appraisal year, owner as shown, acreage, and source link. Check neighboring parcels from the map rather than guessing from mailing addresses.
2. Follow the County Clerk’s official property-record search for recorded instruments. Record the instrument number, recording date, parties, and legal description. Match the parcel description and documents before calling a transaction a purchase.
3. In your summary, say which record supports each finding. For example, an appraisal owner and a deed recording date come from different sources.

Download a blank parcel-research worksheet. Use it to keep parcel IDs, source links, and your notes together.

What is included in the free sample?

The free sampler makes one name-search request and exports the returned business names, taxpayer numbers, and ZIP codes. It does not retrieve officers, account-status details, certified records, or full filing histories. Check important details in the official Comptroller search; a name match alone does not establish identity or current status.

A broad query may return HTTP 413: use a more specific name. No matches produces an empty export with a CSV header. Network errors and unexpected source responses exit with an error instead of inventing results. The source may change after this demonstration.

Get the kit

The Texas Scraper Kit adds 10 verified Python scrapers, a CLI and REST API, storage with deduplication and provenance, 261 beta TypeScript modules, and a catalog of 764+ sources. Module validation and requirements vary; the catalog is not a count of working integrations.

The free demo is MIT licensed. The $13.37 kit is a separate source-available product whose license converts to MIT after 12 months. You do not need to buy it to run the free business sampler.

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This page and its sample were prepared with AI assistance. The downloadable records came from the searches shown here.