incrediblecrab/us-local-laws

US Local Governments and Ordinance Coverage

Every local government the Census Bureau's 2022 Census of Governments counts, 90,837 of them in the 50 states and the District of Columbia; which of them have ordinance text in LOCUS, a public corpus of local ordinances; and every local law in the New York Department of State's online search, 148,024 filings, with the State's older index of local laws, 130,075 rows, each matched where it can be to the government that filed it. It maps who makes local law, how much of that law LOCUS holds, and, for New York, the local laws its governments have filed with the state since 1998 and, in the older index, with law years back to 1924; the laws' text is not here. Beside them, federally_recognized_tribes lists the 577 entries of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' list of federally recognized Tribes, whose governments the Census does not count among local governments, and nfip_communities the 24,979 communities in FEMA's Community Status Book, 22,776 of which participate in the National Flood Insurance Program, whose communities agree to adopt floodplain management regulations.

Every row is built by code: the Census files, LOCUS and New York's older index from versions pinned by SHA-256 or commit, which the build checks against each other, and the index against the State's own file in its release; the Bureau's list from its notice in the Federal Register, pinned by SHA-256 and checked against the notice it updates; New York's filings from the Department's search API as it answered on October 9, 2026, checked against the API's own counts; and the flood insurance communities from FEMA's report as fema.gov served it on October 4, 2026, checked against OpenFEMA's copy of the book. The only hand-made input to the rows is 9 name aliases for LOCUS, listed under Matching. The pipeline and its tests are in github.com/incrediblecrab/us-local-laws, and this card is rendered from manifest.json in the same commit.

Source freshness

Source	Published reading
New York local-law filings	October 9, 2026, 04:38 UTC
FEMA Community Status Book	October 4, 2026, 04:07 UTC

A successful scheduled run does not prove FEMA is current. If fema.gov cannot be read, the run reports degraded freshness and retains the published FEMA reading while New York updates can continue. These dates describe the stored data, not the latest probe; the Actions summary reports which sources that probe could check.

Coverage

LOCUS has 2,287 jurisdictions, and 2,286 of them match one government here: 1,838 of the 19,491 municipal governments (9.4%), which hold 43.1% of the population the Census file gives for municipal governments; 363 of the 3,031 county governments (12.0%), holding 24.4% of county population; and 85 of the 16,214 township governments (0.5%).

Type	Governments	Active	Web address reported	In LOCUS	Population	Share of population in LOCUS
County	3,031	3,031	2,228	363	299,164,655	24.4%
Municipal	19,491	19,465	9,980	1,838	209,654,999	43.1%
Township	16,214	16,144	3,966	85	60,999,011	4.7%
Special district	39,555	39,313	11,278	0
Independent school district	12,546	12,545	11,730	0
All	90,837	90,498	39,182	2,286

Population is the Census Bureau's estimate for each county, municipal and township government, for 2021 for 38,676 of the 38,736 (99.8%). Shares compare governments of one type only, and populations are never added across types, because the areas overlap: a municipality usually lies within a county, and in some states within a township too. LOCUS covers counties, municipalities and townships; special districts and independent school districts are here because the Census counts them as local governments. Active counts governments the Census does not mark dormant.

New York local laws

New York's counties, cities, towns and villages each adopt local laws, and the Department of State's Local Law Filing page, under Municipal Home Rule Law §27, says: "Each local law shall be filed with the Secretary of State within 20 days after its final adoption or approval. A local law does not become effective until it is filed in the Office of the Secretary of State." The Department publishes the filings in its Local Laws search, whose manual says the database holds local laws "on or after January 1, 1998 by counties, cities, towns and villages" and "county codes filed on or after April 1, 2015 by counties".

ny_local_laws holds every filing the search's API returned from October 9, 2026, 04:12 UTC to October 9, 2026, 04:38 UTC: 148,024 filings, filed from March 24, 1995 to October 7, 2026. The build reads the category one filing year at a time and stops unless each year's rows are as many as the API counts for that year and the whole is what it counts before and after the reading; verify checks the published table against those counts, recorded in manifest.json. 2 of the filings are county codifications rather than local laws, and 19 carry a filing date before 1998.

The metadata is the Department's. 59,154 filings (40.0%) have a title and 38,290 (25.9%) a law year; the rest name the government, the law's number and the filing date. The Department says the number it assigns a local law "may be different from the number ascribed by the legislative body of the local government" (Local Law Filing). One filing is dated after the day it was added, so one of those dates is wrong; the table keeps both as the Department recorded them: Village Montgomery, local law 2, filed May 2, 2025 by its record and added October 17, 2024 (090213438010d564.pdf).

posted_at is when a filing was added to the Department's document library, which the search reads. 136,561 filings were added from September 26, 2024 to October 24, 2024, 136,560 of them filed before then; for those, posted_at is the day they came into the library and says nothing of when they were first published.

The Department's manual, dated February 19, 2016, says filings are "usually included in the Local Laws Database within two business days". Of the 5,492 filings added in the 365 days to October 8, 2026, 1,145 (20.8%) were added within two weekdays after the day they were filed; at least half were added within 3 weekdays, and at least nine in ten within 25 days. Days are counted in New York time, and holidays count as weekdays, so a wait over a holiday counts a day more than it would in business days.

The filed PDFs are not read: the hosts that serve them tell robots not to (Disallow: / in their robots.txt), so each row keeps the public link the search page gives for its PDF, and the law's text stays there.

Filed in	Filings	With a title	With a law year	Matched to a government	Repeating another
1995	1	0	0	1	0
1997	18	0	0	17	0
1998	4,433	0	0	4,329	4
1999	4,411	2	0	4,300	75
2000	4,936	0	0	4,847	378
2001	4,385	8	1	4,300	34
2002	9,175	10	0	8,967	4,369
2003	9,067	2	0	8,879	4,219
2004	5,349	1	0	5,265	464
2005	4,834	624	0	4,777	98
2006	5,483	8	5	5,414	24
2007	6,159	1	0	6,101	22
2008	5,256	2	0	5,175	27
2009	4,611	1	0	4,554	28
2010	5,036	5	0	4,981	10
2011	4,527	5	3	4,460	16
2012	4,387	3	0	4,325	16
2013	4,434	13	0	4,326	19
2014	4,314	1,302	1	4,202	59
2015	4,444	4,433	0	4,379	82
2016	4,698	4,696	0	4,665	52
2017	5,011	5,008	0	4,971	52
2018	4,718	4,716	4	4,696	40
2019	4,667	4,661	4,609	4,645	46
2020	3,598	3,596	3,598	3,573	27
2021	5,127	5,123	5,126	5,077	41
2022	5,187	5,186	5,187	5,160	44
2023	5,602	5,600	5,601	5,582	59
2024	5,192	5,186	5,192	5,148	59
2025	5,285	5,284	5,284	5,249	81
2026	3,679	3,678	3,679	3,651	33

Repeating another counts, of each set of rows with the same type, name, law number and filing date, the rows after the first: 10,478 in all, most in 2002 (4,369 of its 9,175 rows) and 2003 (4,219 of its 9,067 rows). Each is a separate PDF in the library, and the table keeps each as a row; whether a repeat is a second copy of one filing or another law under the same number is not known here, since the PDFs are not read.

Each filing names its government by the Department's type (municipality_type) and name (municipality_name). The build matches the pair to one of New York's county, municipal and township governments in governments, only ever to a government with the Census title the type gives (TOWN OF for Town), so a filing is never matched to a same-name government of another type. 146,016 of the 148,024 filings (98.6%) are matched.

To check the matches, 40 matched filings were drawn at random, leaving out five used first to try the queries, and looked up on September 26, 2026 in the search API's full-text index of the filed PDFs; the PDFs themselves were not fetched. The API was asked about one filing at a time, once with that text and once without it, so a term found only with it is in the text and not in the filing's metadata. 35 of the 40 were confirmed: their text has the matched government's Census name, such as VILLAGE OF AMITYVILLE, and their metadata does not. No filing was contradicted, that is, found to name a same-name government of another type and not the matched one. Of the rest, for 3, the metadata has the name too, so the search cannot tell whether the text does; for 2, the text has neither the name nor that of a same-name government of another type. As controls, the Census name of another government of the same type, drawn at random, was found in 0 of the 40 filings, and that of a same-name government of another type in 0 of the 16 filings that have one. Of a second draw of 10 filings matched by name and county, all 10 were confirmed, and 3 of the 4 with a same-name government of another type have its Census name as well, as the County of Cortland's filing has CITY OF CORTLAND. Yet the matched name after a title that no government of that name has, such as COUNTY OF SCHAGHTICOKE for the Town of Schaghticoke, was found in 7 of the 50 filings checked, likely because the Department's filing form prints the four titles before "of" and the government's name. So a phrase naming a same-name government of another type does not by itself make a match wrong, and a confirmation shows that the text has the name more surely than that it has the title. Every filing checked, the oldest filed May 7, 1998, has text the search reads: a term the check asked, such as "hereby" or "enacted", is in its text and not its metadata. A sample of 40 cannot rule out wrong matches among several percent of filings. local_laws/precision.py keeps the draw and every answer, and checks/ny_precision.py redraws it from the published tables.

match	Rule	Filings	Distinct names
name	The name fits exactly one New York government with the title municipality_type gives: TOWN OF FLORENCE for Town and FLORENCE. A remark after the name, such as (Corrected Copy), is set aside, and so is the title when the name repeats it: VILLAGE OF THE BRANCH and CUBA VILLAGE, for Village, read as BRANCH (the Census's name for the Village of The Branch) and CUBA	144,614	1,822
name_county	The name has a county after it, and the name and county fit exactly one government with that title: TOWN OF CHESTER, in Warren County, for Town and Chester (Warren County), Chester (Warren) or Chester (Warren Co)	1,402	93
ambiguous	Several governments with that title have the name, and nothing in the filing's metadata says which, so census_id is null and candidates lists them	508	13
unmatched	No government with that title in the 2022 Census of Governments has the name (and county, if one is given): a village dissolved before 2022, a misspelling, or a filing under another title than the government's	1,500	645

Department type	Filings	Matched	Share matched
City	12,004	11,783	98.2%
County	11,496	11,430	99.4%
Town	74,742	73,890	98.9%
Village	49,782	48,913	98.3%

Census title	Governments	With a matched filing	Share
CITY OF	62	62	100.0%
COUNTY OF	57	57	100.0%
TOWN OF	930	929	99.9%
VILLAGE OF	533	533	100.0%

The one government in the table without a matched filing is TOWN OF RED HOUSE, in Cattaraugus County (208871, population 30).

Ambiguous, with the number of filings: Town BRIGHTON (135), Town DICKINSON (107), Town GREENVILLE (59), Town CHESTER (51), Town CLINTON (34), Town ALBION (31), Town LEWIS (28), Town FREMONT (25), Town ASHLAND (21), Town FRANKLIN (13), Town Greenville (2), Town ALBION(OSWEO) (1), Town Dickinson (1).

Unmatched, with the number of filings: Village SOUTH NYACK (107), Village LYONS (86), Village MASTIC BEACH (76), Village SENECA FALLS (65), Village MACEDON (39), Village SALEM (34), Village PORT HENRY (29), Town ROCHESTER (MONROE COUNTY) (27), Village FORESTVILLE (27), Village BARNEVELD (24), Town EAST ROCHESTER (19), Village KEESEVILLE (17), Village HARRISVILLE (16), Village HERMON (16), Village VAN ETTEN (15), County LEWIS (ESSEX COUNTY) (13), City MONTGOMERY (12), Town ALTAMONT (12), Village RANDOLPH (12), Village CHERRY CREEK (11), Village EDWARDS (11), Village CLINTON (CLINTON COUNTY) (9), Village MORRISTOWN (8), City NASSAU (7), City VALATIE (7), Village ALTMAR (7), Village BRIDGEWATER (7), Village CELERON (7), Village DEYDEN (7), Village PIKE (7), Village STEUBEN (7), Town FREEPORT (6), Village DERING (6), Village EAST RANDOLPH (6), Village HERRINGS (6), City MIDDLETOWN (DELAWARE COUNTY) (5), Town CORLANDT (5), Town CORTLAND (CORTLAND COUNTY) (5), Town MOUNT KISCO (5), Village PROSPECT (5), City HEMPSTEAD (4), County FRANKLIN (DELAWARE COUNTY) (4), Town ONONDAGE (4), Village ANDES (4), Village RYE (4), City DELAWARE (3), City ONTARIO (3), City RESCAN (3), City TAGHKANIC (3), County CHARLESTON (3), County PORT JERVIS (3), Town ASHLAND CHEMUNG) (3), Town ERIE (3), Town HIGHLAND FALLS (3), Town NEW HARFORD (3), Town PHILLIPSTOWN (3), Town WATERFORD (ALBANY) (3), Village ATERES (3), Village FRANKLIN (OTSEGO COUNTY) (3), Village LIMESTONE (3), Village PERRYSBURG (3), City ALTAMONT (2), City BEDFORD (2), City CEDARHURST (2), City EAST HAMPTON (2), City ELLENVILLE (2), City ESSEX (2), City FORESTVILLE (2), City ITALY (2), City LAKE GROVE (2), City MONROE (2), City ONONDAGA (2), City PUTNAM (2), City SHERMAN (2), City SKANEATELES (2), City ST. LAWRENCE (2), City SUFFOLK (2), City SYARCUSE (2), City WATERVILLE (2), City WEBSTER (2), County ALEGANY (2), County CALEDONIA (2), County HADLEY (2), County OWEGO (2), County SPRING VALLEY (2), Town ALBION (ONONDAGA) (2), Town CHURCHVILLE (2), Town COOPERSTOWN (2), Town CRONWALL (2), Town FARMINGDALE (2), Town GENVILLE (2), Town HILTON (2), Town ILION (2), Town KIRYAS JOEL (2), Town LEWIS (CLINTON) (2), Town LEWSIBORO (2), Town MABLETOWN (2), Town MALBOROUGH (2), Town NEW YORK (2), Town PETERBURGH (2), Town SCARSDALE (2), Town STOCKDRIDGE (2), Town WESTERLOO (2), Village BALSTON SPA (2), Village BOONFILLE (2), Village BRIGTHWATERS (2), Village CALDEONIA (2), Village CASTLETON (2), Village HIGHLAND (2), Village MERIDAN (2), Village MIDDLEBURG (2), Village Mastic Beach (2), Village NORAVIA (2), Village PAINTED PSOT (2), Village RICHFIELD (2), Village ROSUES POINT (2), Village SKANESTELES (2), Village WEST CARHAGE (2), Village WILLIAMSON (2), City ALBION (ORLEANS COUNTY) (1), City ALFRED (1), City AMHERST (1), City ASHLAND (GREENE COUNTY) (1), City AUSABLE (1), City BABYLON (1), City BEAON (1), City BETHANY (1), City BETHLEHEM (1), City BLOOMINGBURG (1), City BROOME (1), City Broome (1), City CAMILLUS (1), City CANAAN (1), City CANADAIGUA (1), City CANASTOTA (1), City CAROLINE (1), City CATO (1), City CAYUGA (1), City CHAUTAUQUA (1), City CHEEKTOWAGA (1), City CHESTER (ORANGE COUNTY) (1), City CICERO (1), City CLAY (1), City CLEVELAND (1), City CLINTON (CLINTON COUNTY) (1), City CLINTON (DUTCHESS COUNTY) (1), City COLUMBUS (1), City COOPERSTOWN (1), City CORNWALL-ON-HUDSON (1), City DANNEMORA (1), City DANUBE (1), City DAY (1), City DEWITT (1), City DIANA (1), City DOBBS FERRY (1), City Danby (1), City EAST SYRACUSE (1), City FAIRPORT (1), City FISHKILL (1), City FORESTPORT (1), City FREMONT (SULLIVAN COUNTY) (1), City FULTON (SCHOHARIE COUNTY) (1), City GENESEE FALLS (1), City GREAT NECK (1), City GREENBURGH (1), City HARRIETSTOWN (1), City HERKIMER (1), City HOMER (1), City HOPEWELL (1), City HUDSON FALLS (1), City HUNTER (1), City HUNTINGTON (1), City Hamlin (1), City IHACA (1), City IRVINGTON (1), City ITACA (1), City KINDERHOOK (1), City KIRKLAND (1), City LA FAYETTE (1), City LANCASTER (1), City LAWRENCE (1), City LINDENHURST (1), City MANCHESTER (1), City MANLIUS (1), City MARCY (1), City MAYVILLE (1), City MENANDS (1), City MENDON (1), City MERIDIAN (1), City MILL NECK (1), City MOIRA (1), City MOREAU (1), City NANTICOKE (1), City NEW SQUARE (1), City NEW WINDSOR (1), City NEW YORK 1 OF 2 (1), City NEW YORK 2 OF 2 (1), City NEWARK (1), City NORTH TONAWANDS (1), City NORWiICH (1), City OGDENSUBRG (1), City ONAIDA (1), City OTHACA (1), City OVID (1), City OWEGO (1), City OYSTER BAY COVE (1), City PART JERVIS (1), City PATCHOGUE (1), City PENN YAN (1), City PHILADELPHIA (1), City PLANDOME (1), City POLAND (1), City PORT CHESTER (1), City PORT JARVIS (1), City PORT JEFFERSON (1), City PORT WASHINGTON NORTH (1), City PREBLE (1), City QUEENSBURY (1), City QUOGUE (1), City RIVERHEAD (1), City ROCHESTER (ULSTER COUNTY) (1), City ROCKLAND (1), City ROCKVILLE CENTRE (1), City ROSLYN HARBOR (1), City ROTTERDAM (1), City SANDS POINT (1), City SCHROEPPEL (1), City SCHUYLER (1), City SENECA FALLS (1), City SHORTSVILLE (1), City SIDNEY (1), City SINCLAIRVILLE (1), City SLEEPY HOLLOW (1), City SOLVAY (1), City SOUTH DAYTON (1), City SOUTHAMPTON (1), City SPENCER (1), City SULLIVAN (1), City TARRYTOWN (1), City THURMAN (1), City TIOGA (1), City TOMPKINS (1), City TUSCARORA (1), City TUXEDO PARK (1), City ULSTER (1), City UNION VALE (1), City UPPER BROOKVILLE (1), City WARWICK (1), City WASHINGTON (1), City WAYLAND (1), City WESTCHESTER (1), City WHITNEY POINT (1), City WOODSBURGH (1), City WYOMING (1), City Washington (1), County CARROLL (1), County CATTARAUGUA (1), County CATTARUGUS (1), County CATTERAUGUS (1), County DE KALB (1), County DELANSON (1), County DENESEE (1), County EASTCHESTER (1), County FLORAL PARK (1), County GRANGE (1), County GREECE (1), County HEMPSTEAD (1), County HUNTER (1), County KINGS POINT (1), County Lancaster (1), County MAMARONECK (1), County MEDINA (1), County MOUNT PLEASANT (1), County NASAU (1), County NEW HEMPSTEAD (1), County NEW YORK (1), County NISSEQUOGUE (1), County NORTH SALEM (1), County PIERMONT (1), County PITTSFIELD (1), County POTSDAM (1), County SALAMANCA (1), County SCHANECTADY (1), County SENSCA (1), County WALES (1), County WEST SENECA (1), County WYOIMING (1), County YONKERS (1), Town ALBION (ERIE) (1), Town ALBION(ONONDAGA) (1), Town ALEXANDRIA BAY (1), Town ARKVILLE (1), Town ARKWIGHT (1), Town AUBURN (1), Town BALLLSTON (1), Town BARAVIA (1), Town BARE (1), Town BARKET (1), Town BEACON (1), Town BELLE TERRE (1), Town BETHLEHAM (1), Town BREWSTER (1), Town BRIGTON (1), Town BROOKHAVEB (1), Town BROOKIHAVEN (1), Town BROOKVILLE (1), Town BRUNSWICH (1), Town BUCHANAN (1), Town CAITLIN (1), Town CAMILLUIS (1), Town CANAHOHARIE (1), Town CANAJORHARIE (1), Town CANANDAIGUE (1), Town CATTARAUGUS (1), Town CAZANOVIA (1), Town CEDARHURST (1), Town CELSVILLE (1), Town CENTRAL SQUARE (1), Town CHAUTEAUGAY (1), Town CHESTERFIELD (ORANGE COUNTY) (1), Town CLARKS (1), Town CLARVERACK (1), Town CLERNMONT (1), Town CLIFTON (DUTCHESS) (1), Town CONCERD (1), Town CONCORN (1), Town CONEWAGO (1), Town CONSTANTIE (1), Town CORLANDVILLE (1), Town CORNWALL-ON-HUDSON (1), Town CORTALNDVILLE (1), Town CORTLAND (1), Town CORTLANDt (CORTLAND COUNTY) (1), Town CORYMANS (1), Town COUVERNEUR (1), Town COVANTRY (1), Town COVENTTY (1), Town COXASCKIE (1), Town CROTON-ON-HUDSON (1), Town Clyde (1), Town DANNAMORA (1), Town DEMMING (1), Town EASST FISHKILL (1), Town EAST AURORA (1), Town EAST HAMTON (1), Town EAST HILLS (1), Town EAST MILLS (1), Town ELLICOTVILLE (1), Town ENDICOTT (1), Town ESST FISHKILL (1), Town EVAMS (1), Town East Rockaway (1), Town FAIRPORT (1), Town FARMERSVILLE (WYOMING) (1), Town FARMINGTRON (1), Town FENNNER (1), Town FORESTUBRGH (1), Town FORESTURGH (1), Town FRAMERSVILLE (1), Town FREDONIA (1), Town FREMONT (ORANGE) (1), Town GALLLATIN (1), Town GLENT (1), Town GOUERNEUR (1), Town GREAT NECK (1), Town GRENFIELD (1), Town Greenwoof (1), Town HAMMIBAL (1), Town HAMPSTEAD (1), Town HARLAND (1), Town HARPERSVILLE (1), Town HARTSILLE (1), Town HARVERSTRAW (1), Town HEMPSTAED (1), Town HEMPSTEAD201763 (1), Town HEMSPTEAD (1), Town HENRIETT (1), Town HORICAN (1), Town HOUNSFORD (1), Town HUINTINGTON (1), Town HUNRINGTON (1), Town IITHACA (1), Town IRONDEUIOIT (1), Town ISHUA (1), Town ISLAND PARK (1), Town JOHSTOWN (1), Town KASER (1), Town KENSINGTON (1), Town LAKE SUCCESS (1), Town LAUREL HOLLOW (1), Town LICBON (1), Town LINDLAY (1), Town LLOY (1), Town LOCKPOIRT (1), Town LOXKPOER (1), Town LOYD (1), Town MAMAKING (1), Town MAMARONACK (1), Town MANARONECK (1), Town MANILLA (1), Town MANSHESTER (1), Town MARILLE (1), Town MARLBORUGH (1), Town MASTIC BEACH (1), Town MENDEN (1), Town MILLBROOK (1), Town MONTOUR FALLS (1), Town MOREAUI (1), Town MORRISVILLE (1), Town Mount Kisco (1), Town NEVERSICK (1), Town NEW LABANON (1), Town NEW YORK MILLS (1), Town NICKAYUNA (1), Town NISKA UNA (1), Town NISKAHYNA (1), Town NOCHOLS (1), Town NORTHHAMPTON (1), Town NOTH DANSVILLE (1), Town NUMDA (1), Town OLD WESTBURY (1), Town ONEONTQA (1), Town ORLANDO (1), Town OSWEGATCIE (1), Town PEEKSKILL (1), Town PEMDLETON (1), Town PEMEROKE (1), Town PHILIPATOWN (1), Town PIERMONT (1), Town PLANDOME (1), Town PLANFIELD (1), Town PLEASANTVILLE (1), Town POESTENSKILL (1), Town POMOEY (1), Town POUHKEEPSIE (1), Town PRATTSBUGH (1), Town PRINCESTOWN (1), Town QUEENSBIURY (1), Town RADOLPH (1), Town RAMAOP (1), Town RENSSELAER (1), Town ROCKVILLE CENTRE (1), Town RODENDALE (1), Town ROMOLUS (1), Town ROSLYN ESTATES (1), Town ROSSI (1), Town ROYALTOWN (1), Town SAGAPONACK (1), Town SCHENECTADY (1), Town SCHOHARIA (1), Town SCHRIBA (1), Town SEA CLIFF (1), Town SELDON (1), Town SEMECA (1), Town SEMMETT (1), Town SHELSON (1), Town SHERIDEN (1), Town SINCLAIRVILLE (1), Town SKANTELES (1), Town SMITH (1), Town SMITHOTWN (1), Town SOUTH CASTLE (1), Town SOUTH CREEK (1), Town SOUTHHAMPTON (1), Town SOUTHOILD (1), Town ST. LAWRENCE (1), Town STEPHENTWON (1), Town STLLWATER (1), Town STUYESANT (1), Town SUFFOLK (1), Town TEDFIELD (1), Town THOMASTON (1), Town TICONDEROTA (1), Town TOMPKIN (1), Town TONOWANDA (1), Town TOWN (1), Town TRUSTEN (1), Town TUCKAHOE (1), Town TURTEN (1), Town Tagkanic (1), Town Thuman (1), Town UNION SPRINGS (1), Town UTICA (1), Town VERSTAL (1), Town VETERAM (1), Town WALKILL (1), Town WARRNSBURG (1), Town WATERLLOO (1), Town WATERTWON (1), Town WEST HAVERSTRAW (1), Town WESTRLO (1), Town WILLISTON (1), Town WINDOSR (1), Town WOODSSTOCK (1), Town WOODSTSOCK (1), Village ALBION (OSWEGO COUNTY) (1), Village ALEXANDRIA (1), Village ALMA (1), Village ALRED (1), Village AMHERST (1), Village ANTWARP (1), Village ARCADA (1), Village BALDWINVILLE (1), Village BALLSTON (1), Village BARNEVALD (1), Village BELLE TERRRE (1), Village BELLROSE (1), Village BENTON (1), Village BRANDON (1), Village BRGHTWATER (1), Village BRIGJTWATERS (1), Village BRISTOL (1), Village BROADALBAIN (1), Village BROCKTON (1), Village BROOKSVILLE (1), Village CAIRO (1), Village CANAJOHARIA (1), Village CASTLETON-ON-HUDSIN (1), Village CATRHAGE (1), Village CAZANOVIA (1), Village CEADARHURST (1), Village CHEMUNG (1), Village COLD SPRINGS (1), Village COLDEN (1), Village COLGEVILLE (1), Village CONSTABLE (1), Village COPERHAGEN (1), Village CORTLANDT (1), Village COVENTRY (1), Village COXSACKIIE (1), Village CROINTH (1), Village CROTON-ON0HUDSON (1), Village Cheektowaga (1), Village DAY (1), Village DIANA (1), Village DUNKIRK (1), Village DUTCHESS (1), Village EASST AURORA (1), Village EAST ROCKESTER (1), Village EAST WILLISOTN (1), Village EAST WILLISTSON (1), Village EASTCHESTER (1), Village EAT AURORA (1), Village ELMIRS HEIGHTS (1), Village ESSEX (1), Village EST AURORA (1), Village FAIRPOORT (1), Village FAUYETTEVILLE (1), Village GEENWOOD LAKE (1), Village GENEVA (1), Village GLENS FALLS (1), Village GLENVILLE (1), Village GRAND ISLAND (1), Village GREAT NECK ESTATEX (1), Village GREECE (1), Village GREENVILLE (GREENE COUNTY) (1), Village HALFMOON (1), Village HANNIAL (1), Village HARMOND (1), Village HASTINS ON HUDSON (1), Village HAVERSTRAWQ (1), Village HEW HYDE PARK (1), Village HIGHLANDS FALLS (1), Village HOHNSON CITY (1), Village HUNITNGTON BAY (1), Village INVINGTON (1), Village KENT (1), Village KINGERHOOK (1), Village KINGSTON (1), Village LACONS (1), Village LAKE GEOERGE (1), Village LAUEL HOLLOW (1), Village LENN YAN (1), Village LENOX (1), Village LEWIS (1), Village LEWISBORO (1), Village LINDERHURST (1), Village LYDONVILLW (1), Village LYNDONVILL (1), Village MALTA (1), Village MARILLA (1), Village MASTIC BEACH (1), Village MEREDITH (1), Village MIDDLETOWN (1), Village MILBROOK (1), Village MILTON (1), Village MONTGMERY (1), Village MSTIC BEACH (1), Village MUTONTOWN (1), Village NEW ALBION (1), Village NEWFANE (1), Village NEWSTEAD (1), Village NISKAYUNA (1), Village NISSEQUAGUE (1), Village NORTH SALEM (1), Village NORTHAMPTON (1), Village NREWARK VALLEY (1), Village OLD WESTBIRU (1), Village ONEONTA (1), Village ORANGE (1), Village OTESVILLE (1), Village PATCHUGUE (1), Village PATSDAM (1), Village PELHSM (1), Village PENFIELD (1), Village PHONEIX (1), Village PIRTSFORD (1), Village PITSFORD (1), Village PLANCOME MANOR (1), Village PLANDOME HIEGHTS (1), Village PORT JOHNSON (1), Village PORT WASHINGTON (1), Village PORT WASHINTON NORTH (1), Village POSTDAM (1), Village RAYETTEVILLE (1), Village RIDGEWAY (1), Village ROCHESTER (1), Village ROSLYN ESTATESX (1), Village ROTTERDAM (1), Village SALLSTON SPA (1), Village SAUGERTIED (1), Village SCARSDAKE (1), Village SHORSVILLE (1), Village SOUTHOLD (1), Village SPENCEPORT (1), Village SPRINGFIELD (1), Village STERLING (1), Village SULLIVAN (1), Village SYLVAN BECH (1), Village Silver spring (1), Village THOMPSON (1), Village UPPOER NYACK (1), Village VALLLEY STREAM (1), Village WALTON (OTSEGO) (1), Village WAPPINGER (1), Village WAPPINGERS (1), Village WESELY HILLS (1), Village WEST CATHAGE (1), Village WESTFELD (1), Village WESTHAMPTON (1), Village WESTHAMPTON BEAC (1), Village WESTHTMPTON BEACH (1), Village WESTVILLE (1), Village WUARTSBORO (1), Village YONKERS (1).

New York's index of older local laws

The Department's search begins in 1998, and its manual says "Local Laws filed prior to January 1, 1998 are not in the Local Laws Database. They are maintained in manual files." For older laws there is an index: under the Freedom of Information Law, the State released a copy of an index database of local laws filed with the Secretary of State, made with DataPerfect, on March 17, 2022 (FOIL Request No. DOS-22-02-052). The Local Geohistory Project published the release, with a tab-separated export of it, as "Law Indexes: New York (Local Laws)" (Mark A. Connelly, v1.0.0), whose README describes "index records for over 130,000 local laws filed with the Secretary of State, mostly between 1969 and 2003".

ny_local_law_index is that export, 130,075 rows, read from the release at the SHA-256 the build pins. The export is the project's own, made by running DataPerfect over the State's files and tidying its output, so the build checks it against the State's data file in the same release, whose header counts 130,075 records: each record is one of the export's rows and each row one record, alike in the eight fields other than the title, with the State's text read as the export writes it, runs of spaces as one and ¨ as a. The State keeps the titles in another file, which the build does not read, so they are as the export gives them.

Law years run from 1924 to 2003. 105,569 rows were filed before 1998, when the search begins; of the 24,492 filed from 1998 on, 22,618 (92.3%) have a row in ny_local_laws with the same type, name, law number and filing date. The index gives filing dates from April 16, 1900 to March 25, 2033, and 14 rows have none. 15 rows have a filing date before the law's own year, so one of the two is wrong, and 9 a filing date after the day the record was entered; the table keeps the dates as recorded. Entry dates run from July 6, 1995 to December 5, 2018, and 8 rows have no title.

Law year	Rows	Matched to a government
1920s	25	25
1940s	1	1
1950s	2	2
1960s	895	880
1970s	24,846	24,439
1980s	42,214	41,467
1990s	47,168	46,558
2000s	14,919	14,810
(none)	5	3

Rows are matched to governments by the rules under New York local laws, reading the type with only its first letter capitalized, since the index sometimes writes it otherwise, as TOWN or town. 128,185 of the 130,075 rows (98.5%) are matched.

match	Rows	Distinct names
name	127,296	1,686
name_county	889	36
ambiguous	83	4
unmatched	1,807	66

Type as the index writes it	Rows	Matched
Town	54,763	54,592
Village	52,040	50,326
City	11,889	11,888
County	11,267	11,267
TOWN	47	47
VILLAGE	38	38
CITY	9	9
VIllage	9	9
(none)	3	0
COUNTY	3	3
CIty	2	2
town	2	2
Lacona	1	0
TOwn	1	1
city	1	1

Census title	Governments	With a matched row	Share
CITY OF	62	62	100.0%
COUNTY OF	57	57	100.0%
TOWN OF	930	927	99.7%
VILLAGE OF	533	528	99.1%

Ambiguous, with the number of rows: Town Greenville (Orange C (64), Town Brighton (Franklin C (10), Town Franklin (Delaware C (6), Town Franklin (Franklin C (3).

Unmatched, with the number of rows: Village North Tarrytown (186), Village Seneca Falls (178), Village South Nyack (161), Village Lyons (145), Village The Branch (100), Village Celeron (80), Village Ticonderoga (72), Village Port Washington Nort (66), Village Forestville (43), Village Randolph (40), Village Keeseville (37), Village Port Henry (37), Village Edwards (34), Village Harrisville (34), Village Morristown (31), Village Macedon (29), Town Altamont (28), Village Perrysburg (25), Village Salem (25), Village Cherry Creek (24), Village East Randolph (22), Village Hermon (22), Village Pike (22), Village Van Etten (22), Town Petersburg (21), Village Altmar (21), Village East Bloomfield (20), Village Limestone (20), Village Barneveld (19), Village Westport (18), Village Holcomb (17), Village Andes (16), Village Mooers (16), Village Prospect (16), Village Schenevus (16), Village Cornwall (14), Village Fillmore (14), Village Bridgewater (13), Town Highlands (Sullivan Co) (11), Village Friendship (9), Village Herrings (9), Town Prattsburg (8), Village Woodhull (7), Town Lewis (Oneida Co) (6), Village Pine Hill (6), Village Pine Valley (6), Village Bloomingdale (5), Village Savannah (5), Village Rosendale (4), Town Franklin (Otsego Co) (3), Town Larchmont (3), Town Scarsdale (3), Village the Branch (3), (none) (none) (2), Village Eden (2), (none) East Greenbush (1), City Schectady (1), Lacona Village (1), Town Daien (1), Town East Rochester (1), Town Janius (1), Town Maenia (1), Town Wellsburg (1), Village Elizabethtown (1), Village Fort Covington (1), Village North Pelham (1).

Federally recognized Tribes

The Census of Governments does not count tribal governments. Under the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act of 1994, the Bureau of Indian Affairs publishes in the Federal Register the list of the Tribal entities it recognizes. federally_recognized_tribes is the list in its notice of January 30, 2026, 91 FR 4102, read from the notice's XML at the SHA-256 the build pins: one row per entry, 577 in all, 348 in its list for the contiguous 48 states and 229 in its list for Alaska, in the notice's order. Each row is a name as the Bureau lists it, with the former names and notes the notice gives in parentheses, and nothing more: no lands, members, offices or laws.

The notice's summary says it publishes "the current list of 575 Tribal entities", 2 fewer than the 577 entries its lists hold, and the notice it updates stated 574 for 576 entries. Neither says why. Some entries send the reader to another with "See": Arctic Village and Village of Venetie to Native Village of Venetie Tribal Government; Aleut Community of St. Paul Island and St. George Island to Pribilof Islands Aleut Communities of St. Paul & St. George Islands. The stated count is the entries less the 2 that others send the reader to, but the notice does not say that is how the Bureau counts, so every entry is a row.

The build checks the list against the notice it says it updates, of December 11, 2024 (89 FR 99899), which had 576 entries: each of them must be continued by exactly one row, as the same entry, as the one the row's "previously listed as" names, or with its parentheticals dropped, compared without spaces or capitals; and the rows that continue none must be as many as the stated count grew by. 567 entries are the same, 11 of them only when spaces and capitals are ignored, 2 of those in the name before any parenthesis; 9 changed, 8 of them in the name before any parenthesis; and 1 is new: Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. previous_entry holds each row's earlier entry. The notice says the list "includes the addition of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina following the enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 on December 18, 2025", which set conditions on the Tribe's eligibility for federal services, and that "Other amendments to the list include formatting edits and name changes." It keeps former names in parentheses and says it will do so "for several years".

Changed since the earlier notice: Aleut Community of St. Paul Island, Ewiiaapaayp Band of Kumeyaay Indians, Fort Sill—Chiricahua—Warm Springs—Apache Tribe, Kiowa Tribe, Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi, Native Village of Chenega, Native Village of South Naknek, Nondalton Tribe, Rincon Band of Luiseno Indians.

Names that differ from the earlier notice's only in spaces or capitals, kept as each notice types them: PuliklaTribe of Yurok People, which the earlier notice typed Pulikla Tribe of Yurok People; Wrangell Cooperative Association, which the earlier notice typed Wrangell Coopera tive Association.

Flood insurance communities

FEMA's page for its Community Status Book says: "The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) enables property owners to purchase flood insurance. In return, communities agree to adopt and implement local floodplain management regulations that contribute to protecting lives and reducing the risk of new construction and substantial improvements from future flooding." nfip_communities is the book's national report, nation.csv, as fema.gov served it on October 4, 2026, 04:07 UTC: one row per community, 24,979 in all, 22,776 participating in the program and 2,203 not, in the report's order. Of those participating, 22,582 are in its Regular Program and 192 in its Emergency Program; the report gives no program for 2. The report marks 52 communities as tribal, 45 of them participating. Each row gives the dates of the community's first flood maps and of its current map, the date it entered the program or was sanctioned, and its class in the Community Rating System, with the notes the report prints beneath 693 communities. The table records which communities have joined and when, not the regulations they adopted: that text is not here, and the communities are not matched to governments.

The build checks the report against the book as FEMA's OpenFEMA API publishes it, the dataset NFIP Community Status Book - v1, read from https://www.fema.gov/api/open/v1/NfipCommunityStatusBook.parquet on October 4, 2026, 04:07 UTC: every community in the report must be in it once, under the same name and state and with the same participation, or the build stops. The API holds 25,127 communities, 148 more than the report lists, 10 of them participating and 138 not; they are not rows. The report's other values, its counties, tribal marks, dates, codes and classes, agree with the API's for every community except crs_discount for 1 community (350045, null here and 5 in the API) and initial_firm_date for 3 communities (025009, 1969-06-25 here and 2069-06-25 in the API; 515519, 1969-08-22 here and 2069-08-22 in the API; 515520, 1969-10-01 here and 2069-10-01 in the API).

The Community Rating System, the page says, is "a voluntary incentive program that recognizes and encourages community floodplain management practices that exceed the minimum requirements of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)". 1,786 communities have a class in it, with the discount on flood insurance premiums the report gives for each class:

Class	Communities	Discount
1	2	45%
2	10	40%
3	11	35%
4	9	30%
5	231	25%
6	258	20%
7	427	15%
8	353	10%
9	215	5%
10	270	none

247 dates are later than the day the report was read: 222 in current_map_date, 16 in sanction_date, 9 in initial_firm_date. The report marks 208 of the current map dates as after the date of the report (>); the rest it gives without comment. 1 is more than five years ahead: WILLIAMS COUNTY* (380146), whose current_map_date reads as January 2, 2050. The report writes years with two digits, which the table reads as 1968 to 2067.

Use

from datasets import load_dataset

governments = load_dataset("incrediblecrab/us-local-laws", "governments", split="train")
crosswalk = load_dataset("incrediblecrab/us-local-laws", "locus_crosswalk", split="train")
ny_laws = load_dataset("incrediblecrab/us-local-laws", "ny_local_laws", split="train")
ny_index = load_dataset("incrediblecrab/us-local-laws", "ny_local_law_index", split="train")
tribes = load_dataset("incrediblecrab/us-local-laws", "federally_recognized_tribes", split="train")
flood = load_dataset("incrediblecrab/us-local-laws", "nfip_communities", split="train")

-- DuckDB, straight from the Hub: Vermont's cities and towns, largest first, with the rows LOCUS holds for each
SELECT g.name, g.government_type, g.county_name, g.population, c.locus_rows
FROM 'hf://datasets/incrediblecrab/us-local-laws/data/governments.parquet' AS g
LEFT JOIN 'hf://datasets/incrediblecrab/us-local-laws/data/locus_crosswalk.parquet' AS c USING (census_id)
WHERE g.state = 'VT' AND g.government_type IN ('municipal', 'township')
ORDER BY g.population DESC NULLS LAST;

-- The ordinance text is in LOCUS (CC BY-NC 4.0). Find a government's LOCUS name here, then read its sections there, at the revision the crosswalk was built from.
SELECT locus_state, locus_jurisdiction_type, locus_name FROM 'hf://datasets/incrediblecrab/us-local-laws/data/locus_crosswalk.parquet' WHERE census_id = '135964';
SELECT header, topic FROM 'hf://datasets/LocalLaws/LOCUS-v1@4cee954ca8ad8e31cb0502dff6682c87b74b4302/data/*.parquet' WHERE state = 'vt' AND source_jurisdiction_type = 'cities' AND city = 'barre' LIMIT 20;

-- The New York governments that filed the most local laws in 2025
SELECT g.name, g.county_name, count(*) AS filings
FROM 'hf://datasets/incrediblecrab/us-local-laws/data/ny_local_laws.parquet' AS l
JOIN 'hf://datasets/incrediblecrab/us-local-laws/data/governments.parquet' AS g USING (census_id)
WHERE year(l.date_filed) = 2025
GROUP BY ALL ORDER BY filings DESC LIMIT 20;

-- Every local law the Town of Hempstead has filed, newest first, with the link to each filed PDF
SELECT date_filed, law_year, law_number, title, share_url FROM 'hf://datasets/incrediblecrab/us-local-laws/data/ny_local_laws.parquet' WHERE census_id = '170895' ORDER BY date_filed DESC;

-- Its oldest local laws in the State's older index
SELECT law_year, law_number, date_filed, title FROM 'hf://datasets/incrediblecrab/us-local-laws/data/ny_local_law_index.parquet' WHERE census_id = '170895' ORDER BY date_filed, index_row LIMIT 20;

-- The federally recognized Tribes in Alaska, in the Bureau of Indian Affairs' order
SELECT list_row, name, entry FROM 'hf://datasets/incrediblecrab/us-local-laws/data/federally_recognized_tribes.parquet' WHERE list = 'alaska' ORDER BY list_row;

-- The entries that are new, or changed other than in spaces and capitals, since the Bureau's previous list
SELECT name, previous_entry FROM 'hf://datasets/incrediblecrab/us-local-laws/data/federally_recognized_tribes.parquet' WHERE previous_entry IS NULL OR replace(lower(previous_entry), ' ', '') <> replace(lower(entry), ' ', '') ORDER BY list_row;

-- The communities in Louisiana that do not participate in the National Flood Insurance Program, with the date of each one's sanction
SELECT cid, community_name, county, sanction_date, status_note FROM 'hf://datasets/incrediblecrab/us-local-laws/data/nfip_communities.parquet' WHERE state = 'LA' AND NOT participating ORDER BY community_name;

-- Participating communities by state, and how many have a class in the Community Rating System
SELECT state, count(*) FILTER (WHERE participating) AS participating, count(*) FILTER (WHERE NOT participating) AS not_participating, count(crs_class) AS in_crs FROM 'hf://datasets/incrediblecrab/us-local-laws/data/nfip_communities.parquet' GROUP BY state ORDER BY state;

Files

• data/governments.parquet: one row per government, 90,837 rows, sorted by census_id.
• data/locus_crosswalk.parquet: one row per LOCUS jurisdiction, 2,287 rows, sorted by state, type and name.
• data/ny_local_laws.parquet: one row per filing in New York's local-law search, 148,024 rows, sorted by filename.
• data/ny_local_law_index.parquet: one row per record in New York's older index of local laws, 130,075 rows, sorted by index_row.
• data/federally_recognized_tribes.parquet: one row per entry of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' list of federally recognized Tribes, 577 rows, sorted by list_row.
• data/nfip_communities.parquet: one row per community in FEMA's Community Status Book, 24,979 rows, sorted by report_row.
• sources/nfip_snapshot.zip: the two files the build read from FEMA, the report nation.csv and OpenFEMA's NfipCommunityStatusBook.parquet, stored uncompressed with read.json, which records when each was read. A run that cannot read fema.gov builds nfip_communities from them, and python -m local_laws run --nfip-snapshot takes the same file.
• manifest.json: each source's URL and SHA-256 or commit (for New York's API and FEMA's report, when each was read, with the counts New York's API gave then and the OpenFEMA check's results), each file's rows and SHA-256, every normalization the build applied with its count, the counts on this card, and the pipeline version and commit that built them.

Schema

governments

Column	Type	Description
census_id	string	The Census Bureau's 6-digit ID for the government (CENSUS_ID_PID6). Unique; the key to join on
census_gid	string	The Census Bureau's legacy 14-digit government ID (CENSUS_ID_GIDID), which it stopped generating in 2022; null where the source has none
name	string	The name as the Census publishes it, in capitals, such as COUNTY OF AUTAUGA or PRATTVILLE HOUSING AUTHORITY
government_type	string	county, municipal, township, special_district or school_district, the Census's five types of local government. municipal covers cities, villages, boroughs and incorporated towns; township is what the Census calls town or township governments
state	string	Postal abbreviation of the state the government is in, looked up from state_fips. The source's own STATE column belongs to the mailing address
state_fips	string	2-digit FIPS state code (FIPS_STATE)
county_fips	string	3-digit FIPS county code (FIPS_COUNTY) of the county area in county_name
county_name	string	The county area the Census classifies the government as serving (COUNTY_AREA_NAME); for a government that crosses county lines, the one it serves most or where it is headquartered
fips_place	string	General-purpose governments only (FIPS_PLACE). For a municipality, its 5-digit Census place code; for a township, its county subdivision code; for a county, 99 followed by the county code. Null for special and school districts
special_district_function	string	Special districts only: the Census function code and name (FUNCTION_NAME), such as 24 - LOCAL FIRE PROTECTION
school_level	string	Independent school districts only: the grades served (SCHOOL_LEVEL_DESCRIPTION), such as 03 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY
population	int64	General-purpose governments only: the Census Bureau's population estimate for the government (POPULATION) for population_year
population_year	int32	The year of population (POPULATION_YEAR)
enrollment	int64	Independent school districts only: enrollment (ENROLLMENT) in enrollment_year
enrollment_year	int32	The year of enrollment (ENROLLMENT_YEAR)
web_address	string	The website reported to the Census (WEB_ADDRESS), which says it did minimal quality control on these addresses; not checked here. Null where none was reported
is_active	bool	False where the Census marks the government dormant (IS_ACTIVE = N): not disincorporated, but not financially active. The Census counts dormant governments, so they are rows

locus_crosswalk

Column	Type	Description
locus_state	string	LOCUS's state: a lowercase postal abbreviation
locus_jurisdiction_type	string	LOCUS's source_jurisdiction_type: cities or counties
locus_name	string	LOCUS's city value for cities and county value for counties, as LOCUS writes it, such as batavia_city or saint_tammany_parish
locus_rows	int64	How many rows LOCUS holds for this jurisdiction at the pinned revision
census_id	string	The matched government in governments; null when match is ambiguous or unmatched
match	string	How census_id was found, one of the methods under Matching
candidates	list<item: string>	When several same-name governments fit (municipal_preferred, text_type, text_county and ambiguous), the census_id of each; otherwise empty
text_type	string	The type word LOCUS's text most often writes with the government's name, counted over all the jurisdiction's rows: city for "City of Batavia" or "Batavia City". The words looked for are city, town, village, borough, township, plantation, county, parish and municipality. For several candidates, their names are all looked for. Null when the text never writes the name with one of these words, or when no government fits
text_type_mentions	int64	How many times the text writes text_type with the name
text_mentions	int64	How many times the text writes the name with any of the type words. 0 means the text never names the government this way, which can mean a Census name the text does not use (METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT OF NASHVILLE-DAVIDSON COUNTY) or text filed under the wrong jurisdiction
text_fits	bool	Whether text_type is a word the matched government's Census title allows (town for TOWN OF BARRE; city, county, parish, borough, municipality or town for a consolidated government). Null when text_mentions is under 3, when census_id is null, or when the Census title has no type word to compare

ny_local_laws

Column	Type	Description
asset_id	string	The filing's asset ID in the Department of State's document library (id). Unique; the key to join on
municipality_type	string	Town, Village, City or County, as the Department records the filing government (municipalityType)
municipality_name	string	The filing government's name as the Department records it (municipalityName): mostly capitals, such as FLORENCE, sometimes with a note such as Chester (Warren County) or Amherst (Corrected Copy)
law_number	string	The local law's number within its government's year (lawNumber), as text. The Department assigns it for indexing, and it "may be different from the number ascribed by the legislative body of the local government"; null where the Department left it blank
law_year	int32	The year the local law is numbered in (year); null where the Department left it blank, as it did for nearly every filing before 2019
date_filed	date32[day]	The date the Secretary of State filed the law (dateFiled, which the API gives as midnight Central time)
title	string	The law's title (subject1), such as SHORT - RESIDENTIAL RENTAL LAW OF THE TOWN OF FLORENCE; null for nearly every filing before 2014 and for most of 2014
subject	string	The Department's key for the filing (subject): name, year and number, such as FLORENCE20261 or FLOWER HILL 1998 2; for the two county codifications, their name
county_law_type	string	Codification for a county's compiled code or charter (countyLawType); null for local laws
county_municipal_type	string	County for a county codification (countyMunicipalType); null for local laws
county_municipal_name	string	The Department's countyMuncipalName field, spelled as it spells it; null in every filing read so far
enacted_through	date32[day]	For a county codification, the date its text is current to (enactedThrough); null for local laws
filename	string	The filed PDF's name in the library (filename), such as 09021343803f6e63.pdf
file_bytes	int64	The PDF's size in bytes (size_in_bytes)
posted_at	timestamp[us, tz=UTC]	When the PDF was added to the library the search reads (created_date), in UTC. It says when a filing reached this library, not when it was first published: most filings came into the library together in 2024, and the card gives how long later filings took to be added
share_url	string	The public link the Department's search page gives for the filing's PDF. The API's signed download links expire, so they are left out
census_id	string	The filing government in governments, matched by name as match says; null when match is ambiguous or unmatched
match	string	How census_id was found, one of the rules under New York local laws
candidates	list<item: string>	When match is ambiguous, the census_id of each government with the title and name; otherwise empty

ny_local_law_index

Column	Type	Description
index_row	int64	The row's line in the release's LocalLawsIndex.tsv, counting from 1 after the header. Unique; the key to join on
municipality_type	string	Town, Village, City or County, as the index records the filing government (Municipality Type), sometimes in other capitals (TOWN, town) and in a few rows blank or misplaced
municipality_name	string	The filing government's name as the index records it (Municipality Name), such as Adams or Greenville (Greene Co); some names are cut short
law_year	int32	The year the local law is numbered in (Year); null where the index gives 0
law_number	string	The law's number within its government's year (Number of Law), as text; null where blank
date_filed	date32[day]	The date the index gives for the law's filing with the Secretary of State (Filing Date), kept as recorded even where it cannot be right; null where blank
title	string	The law's title as the index records it (Title), such as peddlers and solicitors. Where the State's text breaks a line, the export writes ~, and so does this column; null where blank
subject	string	The index's short subject heading (Subject), such as salary or freshwater wetlands; null where blank
pages	int32	The number of pages the index records for the law (Pages), 0 in some rows
entry_date	date32[day]	The index's Entry Date, which the release does not define; its dates are later than most filing dates, so it is likely when the record was keyed in. Null where blank
census_id	string	The filing government in governments, matched by name as match says; null when match is ambiguous or unmatched
match	string	How census_id was found, one of the rules under New York local laws, applied to the type with only its first letter capitalized
candidates	list<item: string>	When match is ambiguous, the census_id of each government with the title and name; otherwise empty

federally_recognized_tribes

Column	Type	Description
list_row	int64	The entry's place in the notice, counting from 1 through its list for the contiguous 48 states and on through its list for Alaska. Unique in the table, but not an identifier: another notice numbers its entries afresh
list	string	contiguous_48 or alaska: which of the notice's two lists the entry is in
entry	string	The entry as the notice gives it, with the former names, other names and notes it puts in parentheses, such as Kiowa Tribe (previously listed as Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma). Each run of spaces and line breaks in the notice's XML is read as one space
name	string	The entry's text before its first parenthesis: the entity's current name, such as Kiowa Tribe
previous_entry	string	The entry of the notice this list updates that this one continues: the same entry, the one its "previously listed as" gives, or that entry with its parentheticals dropped, compared without spaces or capitals, since that notice's XML sometimes breaks a word or spaces a parenthesis. Null for an entity the earlier list did not have

nfip_communities

Column	Type	Description
report_row	int64	The number of the report's CSV record that lists the community, counting its header as 1; a record can span lines, since some notes break over them. Unique in the table, but not an identifier: FEMA regenerates the report
cid	string	The community's six-digit number (CID), which begins with its state's FIPS code; unique in the table
cid_suffix	string	The character the report prints after the number, # or a letter from A to N; null where it prints none. The report does not say what it means
state	string	The postal code of the state or territory whose FIPS code begins cid; the report has no column for it
community_name	string	The community as the report names it (Community Name), such as ALAMOGORDO, CITY OF, with its trailing spaces dropped. The report does not explain the * that ends some names, such as WILLIAMS COUNTY*
county	string	The county or counties the community is in (County), as the report lists them; where the report carries a long list on to a line of its own, the two parts are joined
participating	bool	Whether the community participates in the National Flood Insurance Program (Participating Community): true for the report's first part, false for its second, which lists communities not participating
program	string	Regular or Emergency, as the report gives it (Program); null where blank, as for most communities not participating
tribal	bool	Whether the report marks the community as tribal (Tribal)
initial_fhbm_date	date32[day]	The date of the community's first Flood Hazard Boundary Map (Init FHBM Identified); null where blank
initial_firm_date	date32[day]	The date of the community's first Flood Insurance Rate Map (Init FIRM Identified); null where blank
current_map_date	date32[day]	The date of the community's current effective map (Curr Eff Map Date); null where the report gives none. The report writes years with two digits, read here as 1968 to 2067, so its 01/02/50 for Williams County, North Dakota, reads as 2050
current_map_note	string	The code the report puts beside or in place of the current map's date, as its legend gives them: M no elevation determined, all Zone A, C and X; L original FIRM by letter, all Zone A, C and X; > the date of the current effective map is after the date of the report; NSFHA no special flood hazard area, all Zone C; All Zone D, which the legend does not explain. Null where there is none
program_entry_date	date32[day]	For a participating community, the date it entered the program (Reg-Emer Date); null for a community not participating
sanction_date	date32[day]	For a community not participating, the date of its sanction (Sanction Date); null for a participating community
status_note	string	The code the report puts beside the date of entry or sanction: E entry in the Emergency Program, S suspended community, W withdrawn community; null where there is none
crs_entry_date	date32[day]	The date the community entered the Community Rating System (CRS Entry Date); null where it has not
crs_effective_date	date32[day]	The date its current class in the Community Rating System took effect (Curr Eff Date); null where it has none
crs_class	int64	Its class in the Community Rating System, 1 to 10, where 1 earns the largest discount (Curr Class); null where it has none
crs_discount	int64	The discount on flood insurance premiums its class earns, in percent (% Disc), 5 to 45; null for class 10 and where the report gives none
notes	list<item: string>	The lines the report prints beneath the community without a number, in order, such as USE THE CHARLESTON COUNTY [455413] FIRM, each with its runs of spaces and line breaks read as one space and its HTML entities, such as &, decoded. The report breaks some notes over two lines, which stay two entries. Empty where there are none

Matching

LOCUS identifies a jurisdiction by state and a lowercase name, such as batavia_city or saint_tammany_parish, with no Census or FIPS code. The build matches each name to the Census file's county, municipal and township governments with the rules below, tried in this order. It then reads all 2,211,516 rows of LOCUS's text and counts how the text writes each candidate's name with a type word, such as "Town of Barre" or "Barre City". Where several governments share a name, that count chooses among them (text_type, text_county); for every match it is a check (text_fits).

match	Rule	Jurisdictions	LOCUS rows	Text fits	Text differs	Not checked
alias	Listed by hand in ALIASES in local_laws/locus.py, after reading the Census file and the jurisdiction's text: names no rule reads, such as indianapolis_marion_county for CITY OF INDIANAPOLIS, or the cut-off aurel for CITY OF AURELIA	9	11,709	7	0	2
name	The name alone fits one government in the state: a municipality or township for LOCUS's cities, a county for its counties	1,837	1,841,007	1,803	31	3
name_county	The name and the county LOCUS writes after it fit one government (harrison,_calumet_co: VILLAGE OF HARRISON, in Calumet County)	1	1,140	1	0	0
name_type	The name without its type word fits one government with that title (batavia_city: CITY OF BATAVIA, not TOWN OF BATAVIA)	117	57,792	117	0	0
name_type_county	The name, its type word and the county after it fit one government (bedford_township,_(monroe_co.): TOWNSHIP OF BEDFORD, in Monroe County)	13	9,655	13	0	0
name_type_differs	No government of the name has the title LOCUS's type word gives, and exactly one municipality has the name under another title (barnstable_town: CITY OF BARNSTABLE)	3	2,820	0	3	0
name_variant	Fits one government only once a second title or a trailing type word is dropped from the Census name (creede: TOWN OF CITY OF CREEDE)	2	1,051	1	1	0
consolidated	A counties name fits one consolidated city-county, which the Census counts as a municipal government (macon-bibb_county: COUNTY OF MACON-BIBB)	8	14,638	4	0	4
text_type	Several governments share the name, and the type word the text writes with it fits exactly one of them (vt/barre: the text says Town of Barre, so TOWN OF BARRE rather than CITY OF BARRE). The word needs at least 3 mentions and two-thirds of the mentions that fit any candidate	282	265,634	281	1	0
text_county	Several same-name governments in different counties, and the text names one of those counties in at least 3 mentions and two-thirds of all mentions of them (nj/franklin_township: Gloucester County)	13	5,321	13	0	0
municipal_preferred	The name fits one municipality and one or more townships, the text does not settle which, and the municipality is taken: the least certain match	1	141	0	0	1
ambiguous	Several governments fit and neither the name nor the text settles which, so census_id is null and candidates lists them	1	608	0	0	1
unmatched	No government in the Census file fits	0	0	0	0	0

The text fits the matched government's Census title for 2,240 of the 2,286 matches (98.0%). It differs for 36. Each of those was read by hand against LOCUS's text on September 25, 2026, and each is the government LOCUS means, named with another word: 25 towns and villages whose code says City of (11 of them in Texas), 8 cities whose code says Town of (Barnstable and Greenfield, Massachusetts, among them), Skagway, whose code says Municipality, and 2 codes that name their county more often than themselves (Lexington, South Carolina, and Franklin, Nebraska).

The text does not check 10 matches, because it writes the name with a type word fewer than 3 times. It never names 7 of them that way: ga/webster_county_consolidated_government, ky/louisville_jefferson_county, ky/middlesboro, la/baton_rouge,_east_baton_rouge_parish, mn/baudette, ne/sterling, tn/metro_government_of_nashville_and_davidson_county. That happens when the text does not use the Census name, as with consolidated governments such as METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT OF NASHVILLE-DAVIDSON COUNTY, or when the text may not be about the place LOCUS files it under.

The 9 aliases, each checked by hand against the Census file and LOCUS's text. The build stops if the Census name at an alias's census_id changes or LOCUS drops the jurisdiction.

LOCUS jurisdiction	Census government
in/indianapolis_marion_county	CITY OF INDIANAPOLIS (207957)
ga/unified_government_of_georgetown-quitman_county_commission	UNIFIED GOVERNMENT OF GEORGETOWN AND QUITMAN COUNTY (161958)
ky/lexingtonfayetteco	URBAN COUNTY GOVERNMENT OF LEXINGTON-FAYETTE (165831)
la/lafayette_city-parish_consolidated_government	CITY-PARISH OF LAFAYETTE (166076)
tn/metro_government_of_nashville_and_davidson_county	METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT OF NASHVILLE-DAVIDSON COUNTY (175728)
ky/middlesboro	CITY OF MIDDLESBOROUGH (127573)
ny/hempstead_bzo_town	TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD (170895)
ia/aurel	CITY OF AURELIA (164335)
in/aust	CITY OF AUSTIN (126082)

Where local law is published

The Law Library of Congress's guide to municipal codes says "there is no one singular clearinghouse for all municipal codes" (Municipal Codes: A Beginner's Guide). A few private codifiers publish many governments' codes online, for the governments that hire them:

• Municode, owned by CivicPlus. When CivicPlus announced that it had acquired Municode, Municode hosted "over 3,900 local government codes and 190,000 individual ordinances" (CivicPlus).
• ICC Code Solutions, the International Code Council's union of General Code (eCode360) and American Legal Publishing, which "now supports more than 7,000 communities across 47 states, Canada and more than a dozen tribal territories" (ICC, July 16, 2026).

This dataset does not collect from them, because their terms restrict automated collection. The ICC's Terms of Use (last revised May 4, 2023) name General Code and American Legal Publishing among the companies they cover and eCode 360 among their E-Content, and say in §4:

the licenses ICC grants to use our E-Content, as set forth in these Terms of Use and applicable E-Content Terms, do not include any: ... or use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools with any Service or E-Content. Please contact us at license@iccsafe.org to discuss additional licenses for further uses.

The CivicPlus Terms of Use (last revised March 20, 2026) list among prohibited uses, in §7:

Use or launch any automated system, including without limitation, "robots," "spiders," or "offline readers," that accesses the Site or any Solution in a manner that sends more request messages to the CivicPlus servers in a given period of time than a human can reasonably produce in the same period by using a conventional on-line web browser, unless specifically permitted by CivicPlus and in accordance with any specific rate or use limitations;

Their §8(b) forbids anyone to "engage in Automated Scraping of any CivicPlus Materials or Authority Data for AI Training Purposes", and §8(a) defines Authority Data as materials provided "by, for, or on behalf of any government entity" through CivicPlus's services, "whether such materials are publicly accessible or non-public".

On September 25, 2026, eCode360 and American Legal Publishing's code library also answered plain HTTP requests with a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403 with cf-mitigated: challenge); the pipeline treats a challenge as a stop, never as something to get past. Which codifier, if any, publishes a government's code is therefore not in this dataset.

LOCUS's paper describes a raw corpus of codes from 9,239 cities and counties, "available for release to researchers" (arXiv:2606.19334); the public LOCUS-v1 has 2,287 jurisdictions.

Known gaps

• Tribal governments are not rows. Besides the federal government and the 50 state governments, the Census Bureau "recognizes five basic types of local governments" (technical documentation), the five in government_type, and tribal governments are not among them. federally_recognized_tribes lists the Tribes the United States recognizes by name only: it does not match them to governments or places, holds none of their laws, and leaves out Tribes that a state recognizes and the United States does not. Nor are the territories' governments rows: the Census file covers the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
• Dependent public school systems, 1,313 in the Census file, are left out, as the Census leaves them out of its count: they "are classified as agencies of other state, county, municipal, or town or township governments and are not counted as separate governments" (technical documentation).
• The Census file can omit an active government. Howard, Kansas, in Elk County, is an active incorporated city in the Census's own Vintage 2024 population estimates (561 people in 2024), and LOCUS has its code as ks/howard, but it is not in the 2022 file; so ks/howard is ambiguous between the two townships named Howard, neither of whose titles its text fits.
• The Census of Governments is for 2022: a government formed, merged or dissolved since then is not reflected.
• 339 governments the Census marks dormant are rows, because the Census still counts them.
• Web addresses are as reported to the Census, which says it did minimal quality control on them; they are not checked here. 39,182 of the 90,837 governments reported one. The Census file's mailing addresses and contact titles are left out: the map does not need them, and a few of the addresses name a person.
• LOCUS's text is not here, and LOCUS names are matched to governments by name, with the precision described under Matching. Which governments' codes the codifiers hold is not known here; see Where local law is published.
• ny_local_laws covers New York alone, and only its local laws. The Department's guide, Adopting Local Laws in New York State, notes that under the Municipal Home Rule Law a local law "shall not include an ordinance, resolution or other similar act of the legislative body", so those acts are not here. Nor are laws filed before the Department's database begins: its manual says "Local Laws filed prior to January 1, 1998 are not in the Local Laws Database. They are maintained in manual files." For those, ny_local_law_index has the State's older index, 105,569 rows filed before 1998, without the laws' text.
• ny_local_laws is the search as it answered on October 9, 2026. A filing the Department had not yet added, or has removed or corrected since, is not reflected, and since filings took days to weeks to be added (see New York local laws), the weeks before then are incomplete.
• On September 26, 2026 the API also held 49 filings outside the search's Local Laws category, which the search does not show and which are not rows: filed from December 23 to 29, 2020 and all added on October 16, 2024, among them New York City's local laws 120 to 125 of 2020 and Suffolk County's 51 to 56. One, the Town of Stony Creek's local law 3 of 2020, is also in the category, filed again under a shorter title; for the other 48, no filing in the category from 2020 or 2021 has the same government, number and a like title.
• 10,478 rows of ny_local_laws have the same type, name, law number and filing date as another row, most of them filed in 2002 and 2003; they may be second copies of the same filings, and are counted by year under New York local laws.
• The laws' text is not here, only a link to each filed PDF, which this pipeline does not open. The search reads text for every one of the 50 filings the check of the matches looked up, filed from May 7, 1998 to August 17, 2026, but that is a sample: whether every filing's text can be searched, and how faithful to the page the text of a scan is, is not known here.
• federally_recognized_tribes is the Bureau's list as its notice of January 30, 2026 gives it, the latest the Federal Register's API found on September 26, 2026: a Tribe recognized, or an entry corrected, since then is not reflected.
• nfip_communities is FEMA's report as fema.gov served it on October 4, 2026; FEMA regenerates it, so a community's standing may have changed since. It says which communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program, not what their floodplain regulations say, and its names, such as ALAMOGORDO, CITY OF, are FEMA's and are not matched to governments. The 148 communities that OpenFEMA's copy holds and the report does not list are not rows.
• ny_local_law_index is an index: it holds no law's text and no link to a filing, and its titles are not checked against the State's files (see New York's index of older local laws). Its names are as the index records them, some cut short or misspelled, and a village dissolved before 2022 has no government in the 2022 Census of Governments, so such rows are unmatched.
• New York filings are matched to governments by the Department's type and name, and the county a name sometimes carries, not by their text; a check of a sample against the text is under New York local laws. A village dissolved before 2022 has no government in the 2022 Census of Governments, and a filing recorded under a name or type the Census does not use is unmatched; both are listed under New York local laws.

Sources

Source	Pinned as	Used for
2022 Census of Governments, Government Units List	SHA-256 3ef3d93c91697b00d4d53384176dc584db9dacbd0f0a23e45657f0a3a1058c28	governments: 90,837 rows
CG2200ORG02, Local Governments by Type and State, 2022	SHA-256 7c34fe70ed9b05fcb2851cf809823b143301e34a1444007b044ac6f152481d48	Checking governments: 312 counts by state and type compared, 0 differ
LOCUS-v1	commit 4cee954ca8ad8e31cb0502dff6682c87b74b4302	locus_crosswalk: 2,211,516 rows read
New York Department of State, Local Laws search, through its API https://locallaws.static-assets.ny.gov/api/search	read from October 9, 2026, 04:12 UTC to October 9, 2026, 04:38 UTC, when it counted 148,024 filings	ny_local_laws
Law Indexes: New York (Local Laws), v1.0.0, from the Local Geohistory Project	SHA-256 d37330d611971bdfec864f93e7d8e101db5a8c3cef7ff33e5b94f07f3f02822d	ny_local_law_index: 130,075 rows, checked against the 130,075 records of the State's data file in the release
Bureau of Indian Affairs, "Indian Entities Recognized by and Eligible To Receive Services From the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs", 91 FR 4102, January 30, 2026	SHA-256 616e96f6288cc0bbcdfb947042b1402de8f8bc5e5e90bf49d6c84acdc9458dfa of its XML	federally_recognized_tribes: 577 rows
The notice it updates, 89 FR 99899, December 11, 2024	SHA-256 31f306394463efde155a04c8d7307a9be6a4b35b0d8c0973ab066b72cff950fe of its XML	Checking federally_recognized_tribes: its 576 entries, each continued by one row
FEMA, Community Status Book, its national report nation.csv	read on October 4, 2026, 04:07 UTC; SHA-256 0fda9282dcdd5e2bbf6d4a64f0078c6d6190629f4002f7a5dea6867bc3712155	nfip_communities: 24,979 rows
FEMA, OpenFEMA dataset NFIP Community Status Book - v1, https://www.fema.gov/api/open/v1/NfipCommunityStatusBook.parquet	read on October 4, 2026, 04:07 UTC; SHA-256 783c735b5a727048f450140dec7acb8efc5bc55366e076fc1adbd094ef3a57a2	Checking nfip_communities: its 25,127 records, every community in the report among them

python -m local_laws probe cheaply compares New York's filing counts by year, FEMA's report hashes and this card with the published manifest. When a scheduled GitHub Actions run needs a build, python -m local_laws run downloads the Census files, LOCUS, New York's older index and the Bureau's two notices at their pinned versions and reads New York's API and FEMA's report afresh, or builds from snapshots of them that python -m local_laws harvest-ny and harvest-nfip wrote. It stops if any source's bytes or counts are not what the pipeline was checked against, and commits the tables, the two FEMA files it read, manifest.json and this card in one commit. The Census files, LOCUS, the index and the notices are fixed releases; python -m local_laws check-pins fails a scheduled run when a newer LOCUS or Bureau notice needs review before its pin changes. On September 27, 2026, fema.gov returned HTTP 403 for nation.csv to a GitHub-hosted runner in both the cheap probe and the full sync path, so each build stores the two files it read from FEMA in sources/nfip_snapshot.zip. A run that cannot read fema.gov logs a warning with the error, checks the stored files against their SHA-256s and reading times in this manifest, and builds nfip_communities from them, so New York's filings still update while the FEMA table stays at the report as read on October 4, 2026. python -m local_laws verify re-reads the published files and checks them against manifest.json, the Census's table, LOCUS's card, the API's counts recorded at the reading, the index's release, the Bureau's notices and FEMA's report, row for row against the stored copy and, while fema.gov still serves the file the build read, against fema.gov.

License

MIT, for the compilation and the code that builds it.

• The Census files are works of the United States Government and are not subject to copyright in the United States (17 U.S.C. § 105).
• The crosswalk records facts about LOCUS-v1, namely its jurisdiction names, their row counts and counts of type words in their text, and holds none of its text. LOCUS licenses its text CC BY-NC 4.0, which anyone using that text must follow. Cite LOCUS as Denis Peskoff, Joe Barrow, Christopher Vu and Diag Davenport, "Freeing the Law with LOCUS: A Local Ordinance Corpus for the United States", arXiv:2606.19334 (2026).
• ny_local_laws records facts about each filing, namely who filed it, its number, its dates, its PDF's name, size and public link, and the law's title as the Department records it, and holds none of the laws' text. Titles are among the "words and short phrases such as names, titles, and slogans" that the Copyright Office's rules list as not subject to copyright (37 C.F.R. § 202.1(a)). On September 26, 2026 the Department's Local Laws pages linked no terms of use, its disclaimer covered only its links to other sites, and the API's host had no robots.txt (it answered HTTP 404).
• ny_local_law_index is the State's older index as the Local Geohistory Project published it, and the Zenodo record names its license "Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal" (CC0 1.0). Its records are the State's: the release's README says the DataPerfect files in it "were created by the State of New York". Like ny_local_laws, the table records facts about each filing, namely who filed it, the law's year and number, its dates and pages, and its title and subject as the State recorded them, and holds none of the laws' text. Cite it as Mark A. Connelly, "Law Indexes: New York (Local Laws)", v1.0.0, Local Geohistory Project, December 31, 2023, doi:10.5281/zenodo.10446245.
• federally_recognized_tribes is taken from notices the Bureau of Indian Affairs published in the Federal Register, each signed by its Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs. They are works of the United States Government, and "Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government" (17 U.S.C. § 105). Cite the list as Bureau of Indian Affairs, "Indian Entities Recognized by and Eligible To Receive Services From the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs", 91 FR 4102 (January 30, 2026).
• nfip_communities is read from FEMA's Community Status Book on fema.gov, a work of the United States Government (17 U.S.C. § 105), and FEMA's website information says: "Most material on FEMA.gov is free of copyright and may be copied and distributed without permission." Cite it as FEMA, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, https://www.fema.gov/cis/nation.csv, read on October 4, 2026, 04:07 UTC. The rows are the report's; the build only checks them against OpenFEMA's copy, read on October 4, 2026, 04:07 UTC from https://www.fema.gov/api/open/v1/NfipCommunityStatusBook.parquet, and OpenFEMA's terms ask its users to state: "This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s)." sources/nfip_snapshot.zip holds the report and OpenFEMA's file as the build read them, unchanged.

By state

State	County	Municipal	Township	Special district	Independent school district	All	In LOCUS
AK	15	149	0	17	0	181	22
AL	67	462	0	541	138	1,208	46
AR	75	500	0	753	234	1,562	26
AZ	15	91	0	326	242	674	15
CA	57	482	0	2,949	1,006	4,494	55
CO	62	272	0	3,201	180	3,715	56
CT	0	30	149	433	17	629	9
DC	0	1	0	1	0	2	0
DE	3	57	0	255	19	334	3
FL	66	412	0	1,374	95	1,947	65
GA	152	537	0	510	180	1,379	139
HI	3	1	0	17	0	21	2
IA	99	940	0	445	342	1,826	68
ID	44	199	0	807	118	1,168	40
IL	102	1,295	1,425	3,218	890	6,930	81
IN	91	567	1,004	696	290	2,648	79
KS	103	624	1,267	1,468	306	3,768	47
KY	118	417	0	601	171	1,307	66
LA	60	304	0	101	69	534	55
MA	5	56	295	415	85	856	13
MD	23	157	0	162	0	342	22
ME	16	23	461	227	101	828	11
MI	83	533	1,240	437	567	2,860	65
MN	87	854	1,779	579	330	3,629	72
MO	114	943	283	1,927	529	3,796	74
MS	82	298	0	437	150	967	28
MT	54	128	0	736	310	1,228	38
NC	100	552	0	313	0	965	88
ND	53	356	1,305	683	173	2,570	14
NE	93	528	350	1,303	267	2,541	52
NH	10	13	221	128	166	538	8
NJ	21	323	241	222	521	1,328	21
NM	33	105	0	769	96	1,003	22
NV	16	19	0	135	17	187	14
NY	57	595	930	1,189	676	3,447	56
OH	88	926	1,308	952	665	3,939	81
OK	77	592	0	632	539	1,840	58
OR	36	240	0	1,029	223	1,528	32
PA	66	1,013	1,546	1,712	514	4,851	62
RI	0	8	31	84	4	127	5
SC	46	271	0	271	78	666	43
SD	66	310	897	478	149	1,900	29
TN	92	345	0	451	14	902	19
TX	254	1,225	0	2,984	1,070	5,533	195
UT	29	254	0	308	41	632	25
VA	95	228	0	198	1	522	110
VT	14	40	237	162	121	574	4
WA	39	281	0	1,275	295	1,890	37
WI	72	605	1,245	703	437	3,062	58
WV	55	231	0	298	55	639	36
WY	23	99	0	643	55	820	20