Where our data comes from
Town Communicator only tells you what the public record says, and every answer cites the exact document behind it. Here's the record itself — the official sources we draw on, who publishes them, and what each one adds. Nothing here is ours; it's your local government's, gathered in one searchable place.
Live in the corpus and answerable now · Planned built or researched, not yet loaded. Live is read from the corpus itself each time this page loads — a source is marked Live because its records are there, not because someone remembered to say so. Many of the Planned ones are built and waiting on their first ingestion run. Everything below is a free, official, public source.
Town & county records
| Source | What it adds | Published by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Town of Centreville — Council agendas & minutes | Meeting agendas and minutes — what the Town Council discussed and decided. | Town of Centreville | Live |
| Town of Centreville — Municipal Code | Centreville's codified ordinances — the local law in force. | Town of Centreville | Live |
| Town of Centreville — document library | Plans, reports, budgets and forms published outside the meeting archive. | Town of Centreville | Live |
| Town of Queenstown — agendas & minutes | Town Commissioners and board agendas and minutes. | Town of Queenstown | Live |
| Town of Church Hill — agendas & minutes | Town Commissioners agendas and minutes. | Town of Church Hill | Live |
| Town of Sudlersville — agendas & minutes | Town Commissioners agendas and minutes. | Town of Sudlersville | Live |
| Queen Anne's County — news | Official county press releases and announcements. | Queen Anne's County | Live |
| Queen Anne's County — public notices | Legal & public notices — hearings and comment periods (feeds Alerts). | Queen Anne's County | Live |
| Queen Anne's County — meetings | County Commissioners and board agendas and minutes. | Queen Anne's County | Live |
| Queen Anne's County — budgets & financial reports | Adopted budgets and annual audited financial reports. | Queen Anne's County | Live |
| Queen Anne's County — bids & RFPs | County procurement notices. | Queen Anne's County | Live |
| Queen Anne's County — permits | Development and building permit activity across the county. | Queen Anne's County | Live |
| Town of Chestertown — agendas & minutes | Mayor & Council, Planning Commission, Historic District Commission and more — with the permit applications behind each item. | Town of Chestertown | Live |
| Kent County — meetings | County Commissioners, Planning Commission and board agendas and minutes. | Kent County | Live |
| Queen Anne's County — County Code & Zoning Ordinance | The county's codified law — what the rules actually are, which minutes don't say. | Queen Anne's County | Planned |
| Kent County — Code of Public Local Laws | Kent County's codified law. | Kent County | Planned |
| Comprehensive plans (curated) | Town comprehensive plans published elsewhere — including for towns with no website of their own. | Queen Anne's County / Maryland Planning | Live |
Land & maps
| Source | What it adds | Published by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Queen Anne's County GIS — map layers | County zoning and flood/environmental layers, rendered live on the parcel map. | Queen Anne's County | Live |
| Parcels — geometry & attributes | Clickable parcels tied to the record: zoning, land use, lot size, year built. | Queen Anne's County | Live |
| Maryland SDAT — real property | Assessments, ownership and year built behind each parcel. | Maryland Dept. of Assessments & Taxation | Live |
| FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer | Flood zones and base flood elevations for any parcel. | FEMA (federal) | Planned |
| USFWS National Wetlands Inventory | Mapped wetlands — which constrain what can be built. | US Fish & Wildlife Service (federal) | Planned |
| National Register of Historic Places | Listed historic properties and districts. | National Park Service (federal) | Planned |
| USDA NRCS soil survey | Soil type, drainage and septic/farmland suitability per parcel. | USDA NRCS (federal) | Planned |
| Building footprints | Structure outlines for map texture and per-parcel counts. | Microsoft / Overture (open) | Planned |
| USGS topographic & elevation maps | Historical topo and terrain — how the land has changed. | US Geological Survey (federal) | Planned |
| USGS Protected Areas (PAD-US) | Parks, public lands and conservation easements. | US Geological Survey (federal) | Planned |
| Maryland iMAP statewide GIS | Statewide land, environment and address layers. | State of Maryland | Planned |
Community & environment
| Source | What it adds | Published by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| US Census — American Community Survey | Population, income, housing and how they've changed over time. | US Census Bureau (federal) | Planned |
| EPA ECHO / Facility Registry | Regulated facilities, inspections and enforcement near a place. | US EPA (federal) | Live |
| FEMA National Risk Index | Natural-hazard risk profile for the county and tracts. | FEMA (federal) | Planned |
| Maryland elections | Precinct results, turnout and polling places. | Maryland State Board of Elections | Planned |
| Schools — MD Report Card & NCES | School locations, enrollment and performance. | MSDE / US Dept. of Education | Planned |
| USGS water data | Stream gauges and water-quality samples. | US Geological Survey (federal) | Planned |
| USAspending — federal awards | Federal grants and dollars flowing into the area. | US Treasury (federal) | Planned |
| Maryland traffic crash data | Crash locations for road-safety context. | Maryland Open Data | Planned |
Sources are public records and open government data, used within their terms. Federal datasets are public domain; state and local records are public information. We keep an immutable copy of every source file with its address and a content fingerprint, so an answer can always be traced back to the original. Spot something wrong or missing? Tell us.
This product uses the Census Bureau Data API but is not endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau.