Is there a way to identify the county in which an observation is made when the displayed location is other than a county? Use case. I was asked about the distribution of Cypripedium acaule in Georgia (USA). My go-to resource only listed a few counties and it occurred to me to search iNat for observ…

on the observation page, you can click on “details” below the map, and that should give you a little pop-up that includes Encompassing Places. that should tell you the county, according to iNaturalist. unfortunately, you won’t necessarily be able to see this during upload (only after the fact), and …

It would be tedious, but you can use a search URL like this https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=2059&taxon_id=47588 changing the place id for each county Edited to add: Can be done from the Explore page so you don’t have to know the place id numbers

County Identification on All Observations

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County Identification on All Observations

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