Fire Departments US (CSV Format)

 
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Last updated 12/31/2010

Raw file: Fire Departments US.csv (3.08 MB)

Includes 25934 locations in the following areas:

  • United States: AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY
  • Canada: AB, BC, ON, SK
  • some may be in: DC, MB, MEX, NB, QC (near a border)

13 location(s) outside USA/Canada

Summary: This is a location list of fire departments in the United States.

Details: Smoketr posted Sun, 12/12/2010 - 7:19am, "I would love to see a poi, of fire houses across the us. As a retired Firefighter, have helped many people who have stopped by. Firemen generally can guide you to the help you may need. And I am certainly not savvy enough to create such a file..... just an idea anyway... Smoketr......" See http://www.poi-factory.com/node/14024?page=18

A fire department or fire brigade is an organization that provides fire protection for a certain jurisdiction, which typically is a municipality, county, or fire protection district. A fire department usually contains fire stations within its boundaries. There are about 26,465 fire departments in the US and 46,918 fire stations. The intent behind this POI is to provide a location list of fire departments in the United States. A location list for fire stations will have to wait until a raw data list having all the addresses of each fire station in the US can be found.

The fire departments in the United States information was based on posts at http://usfiredept.com/usa-fire-departments-listings.html . Since it would have taken me forever to get the actual address of each of the 26,000+ fire departments, I entered the name of the department/station and city and state listed at usfiredept.com into the GPS Visualizer's Address Locator at http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/geocoder/ to get the geo coordinates. Because the actual address wasn't use in the geocoding, this POI may have more errors than normal. If you can obtain in a single list the actual address of each of the 26,000+ fire departments, I would be happy to revise this POI based on that list

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Change History

  • VinceCANuvi - Dec 31, 2010
    Added 24,948 locations

  • VinceCANuvi - Dec 30, 2010
    Created POI and uploaded first 999 entries of about 25947 entries