Nevada County Property Tax Calculator
Rate basis: Arkansas DFA Assessment Coordination Division, 2025 Millage Report (2026 Collections), issued March 2026.
How Nevada County property taxes are calculated
Nevada County taxes are built the same way as every other Arkansas county, on the 20% assessment ratio, but this county charges a notably high county levy: 11 mills, against a statewide pattern that usually sits nearer 7 to 9. The arithmetic is straightforward once you know the four lines that feed it.
A $100,000 home in Prescott inside the Prescott #14 district, which carries 57.0 mills for 2026 collections, runs as follows:
- $100,000 market value times 20% equals $20,000 assessed value.
- $20,000 times 57.0 divided by 1,000 equals $1,140 tax before credit.
- Subtract the $600 homestead credit to reach $540 estimated annual tax, or $45.00 a month.
Move that same house to rural Blevins #2 at 42.3 mills and the tax before credit drops to $846, just $246 after credit. Move it to Rosston, inside the Nevada #1 district, and 60.8 mills produces $1,216, a $370 swing from Blevins on an identical house. In Nevada County the school district line alone spans 13.5 mills, from Blevins at 31.3 to Nevada #1 at 44.8, so it does nearly all the work.
Nevada County millage rates by district and city
Nevada County publishes eleven taxing combinations for 2026 collections, and all eleven appear below. Every row reconciles to the same county levy of 11 mills, so the school district and the city are the only moving parts. A "Rural" row means no city millage applies, and in this county every city that does apply levies the same 5 mills.
| School district | City or area | School | City | County | Overall |
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| Nevada #1 | Rural | 44.8 | 0 | 11 | 55.8 |
| Nevada #1 | Bodcaw | 44.8 | 5 | 11 | 60.8 |
| Nevada #1 | Cale | 44.8 | 5 | 11 | 60.8 |
| Nevada #1 | Rosston | 44.8 | 5 | 11 | 60.8 |
| Nevada #1 | Willisville | 44.8 | 5 | 11 | 60.8 |
| Prescott #14 | Rural | 41 | 0 | 11 | 52 |
| Prescott #14 | Bluff City | 41 | 5 | 11 | 57 |
| Prescott #14 | Prescott | 41 | 5 | 11 | 57 |
| Blevins #2 | Rural | 31.3 | 0 | 11 | 42.3 |
| Blevins #2 | Emmet | 31.3 | 5 | 11 | 47.3 |
| Lafayette County District | Rural | 32.8 | 0 | 11 | 43.8 |
| County average | 40.22 | 5 | 11 | 54.4 |
Nevada County rows taken from the Arkansas DFA Assessment Coordination Division 2025 Millage Report, covering 2026 collections and issued March 2026. All eleven combinations are listed here. The 11 mill county levy is composed differently for city and rural property even though the total is the same: city parcels carry a 1.5 mill road allotment, 5 mills general, 1.5 mills of county road and 3 mills of library tax; rural parcels carry 3 mills of road instead of the allotment.
Why Nevada County rates span 18.5 mills
Nevada County contains four school districts and seven millage-levying cities, and the gap between its cheapest and dearest combination is 18.5 mills, the widest inside any county in this batch. The reason is not the cities, which all charge the same rate, and not the county, which charges 11 mills everywhere. It is the school districts, which span 13.5 mills on their own.
- Rosston, Willisville, Bodcaw and Cale share the county's top rate. All four sit inside the Nevada #1 district at 44.8 school mills and each levies the same 5 mill city rate, giving all four a single overall figure of 60.8 mills. Four separate towns, one identical rate.
- Rural Blevins #2 is the cheapest address at 42.3 mills. The Blevins district carries the lowest school rate in the county at 31.3 mills, and rural parcels add no city tax. On a $100,000 home the difference against Rosston is $370 a year before any credit.
- Prescott carries a middle-district rate with the county's largest city. Prescott city pays 57 mills, made up of the Prescott #14 district's 41 school mills and the standard 5 mill city rate. The same 5 mill city charge applies in Bluff City, which shares the 57 mill overall figure.
- Emmet is the only city in the Blevins district. Emmet sits in Blevins #2 at 47.3 mills overall, 10.5 mills below Prescott and 13.5 below Rosston, because the Blevins school rate is so much lower.
- The Lafayette County district fringes in. One rural tier in the Nevada County table carries 32.8 school mills from a district based in Lafayette County, which appears here at 43.8 mills overall. A Nevada County parcel can therefore pay a school levy voted on in a different county.
- The county's own 11 mills is the highest in this batch. Nevada County levies more county tax than Phillips, Ouachita, Mississippi or Monroe, and the library line is 3 mills for every parcel, city or rural.
District boundaries explain the rest. The Nevada #1 district reaches into Ouachita County, Blevins #2 fringes in from Hempstead County, and the Lafayette County district fringes from Lafayette into Miller, Columbia and Nevada counties. Emmet #13 consolidated with Blevins #2, and the McNeil district consolidated with Stephens before Stephens merged into the Prescott district, which is why those names no longer appear in the table. If you are comparing two Nevada County addresses, compare school districts first and city limits second.
Prescott, Emmet, Rosston and the rest of Nevada County
Prescott
Prescott is the county seat and the only place in Nevada County where every tax office is under one roof, with the assessor in Suite 106, the collector in Suite 107 and the county clerk in Suite 102 at 215 East 2nd Street South. A Prescott city address pays 57 mills, combining the Prescott #14 district's 41 school mills, a 5 mill city rate and the 11 mill county levy. The courthouse itself dates from 1964 and is on the National Register.
Rosston, Willisville, Bodcaw and Cale
These four towns carry the county's highest published rate at 60.8 mills each, and they reach that figure the same way: the Nevada #1 district's 44.8 school mills, plus 5 mills of city tax, plus the county's 11 mills. Rosston was the county seat before a 1877 vote moved it to Prescott, and today it is part of the highest-rate group in the county rather than the lowest.
Emmet
Emmet is the only incorporated place inside the Blevins #2 district and pays 47.3 mills overall. That makes Emmet the cheapest city address in Nevada County and the second cheapest combination overall after the rural Blevins tier. Emmet #13 consolidated with Blevins #2, so the town's district name is gone even though the millage structure remains.
Bluff City
Bluff City sits in the Prescott #14 district and pays 57 mills, identical to Prescott city, because the district and city millage lines are the same and the county levy does not vary. The two towns are separated on the map but not in their rates.
Rural Nevada County
Rural addresses carry no city tax, so their rate is the school district plus 11 mills. That produces 42.3 mills in Blevins #2, 43.8 in the Lafayette County district tier, 52 in Prescott #14 and 55.8 in Nevada #1, a 13.5 mill spread with no city tax involved. For land outside a town limit, the school district is the only variable that matters.
Nevada County Assessor
Official name: Nevada County Assessor's Office. Assessor: Pam Box. The office is in the Nevada County Courthouse at 215 East 2nd Street South in Prescott, and it handles valuation, parcel records, personal and business personal property assessment, the homestead credit and the age 65 or disabled value freeze. Values are set here; payments are not taken here. The courthouse operates from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and closes on state holidays.
The DFA county officials directory, the Association of Arkansas Counties and the county's own office listing all name Pam Box as the assessor and print the same Suite 106 address and phone, so that contact detail is settled. The assessor also runs an online personal property assessment service for residents renewing vehicle tags, with a warning printed on that service: online assessment can take one to two business days, so you cannot renew tags the same day unless you call or visit the office. Business personal property must be assessed by May 31, and first-time personal property filers have to come into the office with titles or prior-county paperwork.
Sources: Arkansas DFA county officials directory, Nevada County online personal property assessment and the county office listing published by the Prescott Nevada County partnership. The statewide office list is in the site's Arkansas assessor directory.
Nevada County Collector
Official name: Nevada County Collector's Office, held by Danny Martin, who is also the county sheriff, an arrangement several Arkansas counties use. The collector bills and collects real and personal property tax and handles delinquency. It does not set values. Nevada County property tax payments are accepted online through the Arkansas payment portal, and the collector's tax records are searchable for free through ARCountyData.
Two official sources disagree on the collector's phone number. ARCountyData, which hosts the collector's own sponsored record search, lists (870) 887-3511, and the Association of Arkansas Counties lists the same number for the collector while showing (870) 887-2616 for the sheriff. Arkansas.gov's Nevada page prints (870) 887-3410 beside the collector, which is the assessor's number and is therefore wrong for this office. The number published here is the one on the collector's own record. Card fees for online payment are set by the portal's processor, and the county does not publish a fee schedule of its own, so confirm the amount at checkout.
Sources: ARCountyData Nevada County collector record, Association of Arkansas Counties, Nevada and the Arkansas tax payment portal.
How to find a Nevada County parcel and its exact tax
Nevada County splits its public records across two systems, and you need both to get from a parcel to a number. Real property records sit in actDataScout, the assessor-sponsored public records system used by a group of Arkansas counties. The collector's tax records sit in ARCountyData.
- Open the Nevada County real property search on actDataScout and search by owner name, address or parcel number. The assessor obtains these records, so they carry ownership, market value, assessed value and property characteristics.
- Confirm the school district and city on the record. In this county those two fields decide your rate, and the district alone can move the bill by 13.5 mills.
- Check whether the record shows a homestead credit or a value freeze. A frozen value explains why your assessed amount does not equal 20% of the market value shown.
- Switch to the ARCountyData Nevada County tax record search, which the collector sponsors, to see the tax year, the amount billed and any receipt issued. Proof of payment and real-time receipt information are among the features listed for this county.
- For vehicles and personal property, use the assessor's own online assessment service through CountyService.Net. The service accepts renewals only for people who assessed in Nevada County last year, and it warns that processing takes one to two business days.
The ARCountyData county page listed 22,475 parcels when the collector data was last refreshed on June 3, 2025, and actDataScout showed assessor data updated in early 2026. Check the date stamp on whichever system you use, because the two are refreshed on different schedules. For a boundary or district question, the assessor's office in Suite 106 at the courthouse keeps the parcel maps.
Sources: actDataScout Nevada County real property records, ARCountyData Nevada County records and Nevada County online assessment.
Paying Nevada County property taxes
Nevada County tax on the previous year's assessment is due by October 15, and the county accepts payment online, in person at the collector's office and by mail. Online payment is a real option here, which puts Nevada County ahead of several of its neighbours.
Where to pay
- Online: the Arkansas tax payment portal at taxpayment.countyservice.net, which lists Nevada County as a participating county for personal property and real estate tax. The portal is status-dependent and prints which tax year it is accepting, so check that line at checkout.
- In person: the collector's office in Suite 107 at 215 East 2nd Street South in Prescott, during courthouse hours of 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday.
- By mail: the collector's office accepts mailed payment at the Prescott address. Send it early enough to arrive before the deadline rather than posting on October 15.
Two practical notes for this county. The online portal is the same service used by a group of Arkansas counties, and its county list and accepted tax year are worth rechecking each year because both change. And because the collector is also the sheriff, the collection office and the law enforcement office are two different buildings on two different streets, so drive to 215 East 2nd Street South for a tax payment and not to the sheriff's office on 3rd Street. Statewide rules on what happens after the deadline are in Arkansas property tax due dates and delinquent property tax and redemption in Arkansas.
Sources: Arkansas tax payment portal, ARCountyData Nevada County and Association of Arkansas Counties, Nevada.
Homestead credit in Nevada County
Nevada County homeowners register the Arkansas homestead credit with the assessor's office in Suite 106 of the courthouse at 215 East 2nd Street South. The assessor is the office that records homesteads in every Arkansas county, and this one also handles the age 65 or disabled value freeze. Nothing about the credit is automatic, so a new owner who does not file does not receive it.
Be careful with older homestead figures that still circulate in this county. The commonly quoted $375 reflects a credit level from several legislative increases ago, and any page quoting it is out of date. The current maximums are $600 on a 2026 tax bill under Act 330 of 2025, rising to $675 on a 2027 bill under HB1103, also known as Act 174 of 2026. The calculator on this page models the 2026 bill and uses $600. The state's own position is on the DFA property tax relief page, and the filing sequence is in how to apply for the Arkansas homestead credit.
Amendment 79 applies here as it does statewide, capping annual taxable value growth at 5% for a primary residence and 10% for other real property, with a full freeze available to owners 65 or older or disabled. Nevada County is between reappraisals: the DFA schedule places it on a five-year cycle with the current round dated 2024 and the next listed in 2028, so the values on today's bills came from the 2024 round. More background is in Arkansas Amendment 79 property tax limits and the senior property tax freeze in Arkansas.
Sources: Arkansas DFA property tax relief, Arkansas DFA county officials directory and the DFA reappraisal cycle schedule.
Appealing a Nevada County assessment
Start with the assessor rather than the board. The office in Suite 106 will review your property record card with you and compare the value against comparable parcels, and the state's own synopsis notes that informal appeals to appraisers resolve most questions before the equalization stage. Nevada County has no published appeal form online, so this first step is a call or a visit.
The formal route is the Nevada County Board of Equalization. Under Ark. Code 26-27-317 an owner or an agent may apply in person, by petition or by letter to the secretary of the county equalization board, and the application must arrive on or before the third Monday in August. The county clerk serves as the board's secretary in every Arkansas county, and in Nevada County the clerk is Tammie Ann Rose, whose office is Suite 102 at 215 East 2nd Street South, Prescott, AR 71857, on (870) 887-2710. The board begins hearing appeals no later than the second Monday in August.
- Where to file: the county clerk's office, as secretary to the equalization board.
- Deadline: the third Monday in August of the assessment year. Filing can begin as early as July 1.
- What is decided: the correctness of the valuation. The board may lower, raise or confirm it.
- Evidence: property record cards and sale prices for comparable properties in the same area, plus any recent appraisal of your own property. Evidence that reaches the assessor less than five business days before the hearing can lead the board to continue the case.
- Appeal from the board: a petition to the county court, filed with the county clerk on or before the second Monday in October. The county judge sits as the county court for these appeals.
One limit is worth knowing before you spend time on a filing: the board can only adjust the assessment made in the year it meets, so it cannot revisit an older valuation. Guidance on the wider process is in how to appeal a property tax assessment in Arkansas and the site's property tax appeal guide.
Sources: Ark. Code 26-27-317, Ark. Code 26-27-318 and Association of Arkansas Counties, Nevada for the clerk's office details.
Nevada County property tax examples
The five rows below use Nevada County's 54.40 mill average for 2026 collections and the $600 homestead credit. They are a fair picture of a middle-of-the-range address here, but the county's own spread runs 42.3 to 60.8 mills, so treat the table as a baseline and the district list above as the detail.
| Market value | Assessed at 20% | Tax before credit | After $600 credit | Monthly |
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| $60,000 | $12,000 | $653 | $53 | $4.40 |
| $83,000 (county median, rounded) | $16,600 | $903 | $303 | $25.25 |
| $125,000 | $25,000 | $1,360 | $760 | $63.33 |
| $250,000 | $50,000 | $2,720 | $2,120 | $176.67 |
| $500,000 | $100,000 | $5,440 | $4,840 | $403.33 |
Calculated at the 54.40 mill Nevada County average for 2026 collections, one $600 credit per row, matching the calculator formula exactly.
Nevada County median home value and median tax
What follows is federal survey data included for comparison only. It is not part of the calculator, and it does not describe any one property in Nevada County.
Working through the two numbers side by side explains the apparent contradiction. Applying the 20% assessment ratio and the 54.40 mill county average to the median home value of $83,300 yields roughly $907 before credit, more than twice the surveyed median tax of $434. The survey measures bills actually paid, which include parcels held far below full assessed value by Amendment 79 caps, homes sitting in the cheaper Blevins and Lafayette district tiers rather than at the county average, and every homestead credit claimed in the county. The calculation measures what a new purchase at full value would owe in an average district. Both are correct answers to different questions.
Sources: B25077, median value; B25103, median tax; B01003, population. These are survey estimates and carry sampling error.
Nevada County property tax questions
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The county average is 54.40 mills for 2026 collections, made up of 40.22 school mills, 5.00 city mills and 11.00 county mills. The 11 mill county levy is the highest county line in this batch, and published rates in Nevada County run from 42.3 mills in the rural Blevins #2 tier to 60.8 mills in Bodcaw, Cale, Rosston and Willisville.
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All four sit inside the Nevada #1 school district, which carries 44.8 school mills plus the 11 mill county levy, and each of the four levies the same flat 5 mill city rate. The 5 mill city levy is standard across all seven Nevada County cities, so in this county the school district alone decides the difference.
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Nevada County real property records are hosted on actDataScout, the assessor-sponsored public records system, at actdatascout.com for Arkansas. The collector also sponsors a free tax record search through ARCountyData. Both let you search by owner name, address or parcel number.
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Yes. Nevada County is one of the counties accepted by the Arkansas tax payment portal run by CountyService.Net at taxpayment.countyservice.net. The portal is status-dependent and displays which tax year it is currently accepting, so check that line at checkout.
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Danny Martin is both the Nevada County sheriff and the county collector, an arrangement used in a number of Arkansas counties. The collector's office is at 215 East 2nd Street South, Suite 107, Prescott, AR 71857, on (870) 887-3511, while the sheriff's office is on 209 East 3rd Street South.
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Apply with the Nevada County Assessor's Office at 215 East 2nd Street South, Suite 106, Prescott, on (870) 887-3410. The maximum credit is $600 on a 2026 bill under Act 330 of 2025 and $675 on a 2027 bill under HB1103, Act 174 of 2026. Owners 65 or older or disabled can also file there for the value freeze.
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No. The DFA reappraisal schedule places Nevada County on a five-year cycle with the current round dated 2024 and the next listed in 2028, so the current values were set in the 2024 round and most bills now move only with millage changes or new construction.
Nearby county pages
Official sources
The Nevada County average, all eleven district rows and the 11 mill county breakdown lines used above.
The assessor-sponsored public records system holding ownership, value and property data for Nevada County parcels.
The collector's sponsored tax record search, with the parcel count and the June 3, 2025 data refresh date.
The assessor's online assessment service, its one to two business day processing note and the May 31 penalty warning.
The CountyService.Net portal that accepts Nevada County personal property and real estate tax payments.
Confirms Pam Box as the current Nevada County assessor with her office address and phone.
Collector, treasurer, clerk and sheriff contact details used for the phone discrepancy and the appeal filing route.
Homestead credit rules, the Amendment 79 caps and the age 65 or disabled value freeze.
The statute setting the third Monday in August equalization filing deadline.