I’ve been using the API to extract some additional information for some 6000 records of an invasive plant across North America. Our project, for various reasons, has focused on county-level records. The API does, technically, include county info, in the place_ids variable. But this information is co…

You can find all the place codes in http://www.inaturalist.org/places/inaturalist-places.csv.zip You should get all the US county-level places by filtering for admin_level 20 and ancestry starting with 97394/1/, but you might want to double check that.

Not sure if this helps, but you can get the county name for an observation using something like this (untested sloppy and probably outdated jQuery code): var placeList = observation.place_ids.toString(); var iNatApi = 'https://api.inaturalist.org/v1/places/' + placeList; var params = { 'admin_level…

If my code above is confusing, you basically want to convert your example data into an API query like: https://api.inaturalist.org/v1/places/1,19,339,9853,51894,57106,59613,59649,61551,64422,64423,66741,81418,81775,82256,82257,90754,96685,97394,127683,127684,145691,157671,201280?admin_level=20 and …

[image] zygy: probably outdated jQuery code a thing that i mentioned in another recent thread by awharvey provides an example of how to do this in Python. see: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/is-it-possible-to-filter-by-observers-original-guess/50320/10 .

[image] jwidness: http://www.inaturalist.org/places/inaturalist-places.csv.zip Excellent, that’s just what I needed. Thanks!

List of U.S. county codes?

General

Topic		Replies	Views
Displaying County names in iNaturalist Identifications Search General api	2	147	April 24, 2025
County Identification on All Observations General	3	517	July 23, 2020
Searching for multiple counties at once? General question	7	895	April 13, 2020
Is there a place where I can go to get a list of iNaturalist place_ids? General	8	3820	August 11, 2019
API extract for state_place_name? General	6	117	May 3, 2026

List of U.S. county codes?

Related topics