Source: Bill Walsh, WILMINGTON STAR-NEWS, 3/3/19

Pender County was hit hard by Hurricane Florence, a blow that is still rocking the local tax office.
The county was in the midst of a property reassessment when the storm hit, and notices of properties’ new values, which typically get mailed to taxpayers in January, have not yet gone out. The delay, according to Pender County Tax Assessor Justian Pound, is the result of county assessors having to review fairly significant damages to about 10 percent of the nearly 50,000 individual parcels in the county.

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