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52,105 governments · named from Census files

Every local government in the country, by its own name.

Counties, cities, towns, townships and school districts — each a separate unit of government with its own records and its own clerk, and each answering to the public-records act of the state it sits in.

3,116

Counties and equivalents

Active county governments and independent cities, from the Census 2020 FIPS file.

19,470

Incorporated places

Cities, towns, villages and boroughs with a functioning government. Census-designated places are excluded — they are statistical areas with no clerk to write to.

16,186

Towns and townships

Functioning minor civil divisions. Town government is a real layer in 20 states and in none of the other 30.

13,333

School districts

Unified, elementary and secondary districts. Each is its own unit of government with its own board, budget and records.

By state

State	Statute	Deadline	Counties	Municipalities	Townships	Schools	Total
ALAlabama	Alabama Open Records Act	reasonable	67	462	—	141	670
AKAlaska	Alaska Public Records Act	10 cd	15	149	—	53	217
AZArizona	Arizona Public Records Law	reasonable	15	91	—	216	322
ARArkansas	Arkansas Freedom of Information Act	3 bd	75	500	—	234	809
AS	—	—	3	0	—	0	3
CACalifornia	California Public Records Act	10 cd	57	482	—	979	1,518
COColorado	Colorado Open Records Act	3 bd	62	271	—	178	511
CTConnecticut	Connecticut Freedom of Information Act	4 bd	0	29	149	167	345
DC	—	—	0	0	—	1	1
DEDelaware	Delaware Freedom of Information Act	15 bd	3	57	—	16	76
FLFlorida	Sunshine Law	reasonable	66	411	—	67	544
GAGeorgia	Georgia Open Records Act	3 bd	151	536	—	184	871
HIHawaii	Hawaii Uniform Information Practices Act	10 bd	4	0	—	1	5
IDIdaho	Idaho Public Records Act	3 bd	44	198	—	115	357
ILIllinois	Illinois Freedom of Information Act	5 bd	102	1,294	1,411	863	3,670
INIndiana	Indiana Access to Public Records Act	7 cd	91	565	1,005	291	1,952
IAIowa	Iowa Open Records Law	reasonable	99	940	—	327	1,366
KSKansas	Kansas Open Records Act	3 bd	103	624	1,267	286	2,280
KYKentucky	Kentucky Open Records Act	5 bd	118	417	—	178	713
LALouisiana	Louisiana Public Records Law	3 bd	61	301	—	69	431
MEMaine	Maine Freedom of Access Act	5 bd	16	23	461	267	767
MDMaryland	Maryland Public Information Act	10 bd	23	157	—	24	204
MAMassachusetts	Massachusetts Public Records Law	10 bd	5	58	293	304	660
MIMichigan	Michigan Freedom of Information Act	5 bd	83	533	1,240	541	2,397
MNMinnesota	Minnesota Government Data Practices Act	reasonable	87	854	1,778	331	3,050
MSMississippi	Mississippi Public Records Act	7 bd	82	299	—	137	518
MOMissouri	Missouri Sunshine Law	3 bd	114	938	282	516	1,850
MTMontana	Montana Public Records Act	reasonable	54	127	—	399	580
MP	—	—	3	0	—	0	3
NENebraska	Nebraska Public Records Statutes	4 bd	93	528	335	244	1,200
NVNevada	Nevada Public Records Act	5 bd	16	19	—	17	52
NHNew Hampshire	New Hampshire Right-to-Know Law	5 bd	10	13	221	180	424
NJNew Jersey	Open Public Records Act	7 bd	21	323	241	558	1,143
NMNew Mexico	New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act	3 bd	33	105	—	89	227
NYNew York	Freedom of Information Law	5 bd	57	595	928	681	2,261
NCNorth Carolina	North Carolina Public Records Law	reasonable	100	551	—	118	769
NDNorth Dakota	North Dakota Open Records Law	reasonable	53	355	1,308	172	1,888
OHOhio	Ohio Public Records Act	reasonable	88	925	1,308	612	2,933
OKOklahoma	Oklahoma Open Records Act	reasonable	77	592	—	509	1,178
OROregon	Oregon Public Records Law	5 bd	36	240	—	198	474
PAPennsylvania	Right-to-Know Law	5 bd	66	1,013	1,546	501	3,126
PRPuerto Rico	Puerto Rico Transparency and Expedited Procedure for Access to Public Information Act	10 bd	78	0	—	1	79
RIRhode Island	Access to Public Records Act	10 bd	0	8	31	37	76
SCSouth Carolina	South Carolina Freedom of Information Act	10 bd	46	271	—	78	395
SDSouth Dakota	South Dakota Public Records Law	10 bd	66	310	900	149	1,425
TNTennessee	Tennessee Public Records Act	7 bd	92	344	—	158	594
TXTexas	Texas Public Information Act	10 bd	254	1,224	—	1,019	2,497
UTUtah	Government Records Access and Management Act	10 bd	29	255	—	41	325
VTVermont	Vermont Public Records Act	3 bd	14	40	237	129	420
VAVirginia	Virginia Freedom of Information Act	5 bd	95	227	—	136	458
WAWashington	Public Records Act	5 bd	39	281	—	295	615
WIWisconsin	Wisconsin Public Records Law	reasonable	72	605	1,245	422	2,344
WV	—	—	55	231	—	55	341
WYWyoming	Wyoming Public Records Act	reasonable	23	99	—	49	171

Where these names come from

The U.S. Census Bureau, retrieved 2026-08-22. Names, codes and geography come from the government’s own reference files rather than from anything Aletheca generated, which is the reason they can be printed at all.

FUNCSTAT = A only. Census-designated places and census county divisions are statistical areas with no government and are excluded — they cannot receive a request. That filter is the whole trick: a census-designated place looks exactly like a town in a name list and has no clerk, no council and no records officer. Publishing one as a filing target would put a letter in the post to nobody.

What Census does not publish is who handles records requests. So every jurisdiction here carries a real name and a real statute and no confirmed contact route — Aletheca confirms an address before the first letter goes to it, and records the confirmation as a public event.