Dataset
Fire Departments
City of Boston fire department locations.
Dataset
- Publisher
- Boston Maps
- Spatial coverage
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Fields
- 28
- Keywords
- bfd, boston, bostonmaps, ckan, departments, fire
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/fire-departments
Artifacts
“Preserved” means the archive holds the bytes and their digest. “Referenced” means it holds the record of them and nothing more. The archive does not claim a holding it cannot prove.
| Format | Preservation | Size | Digest | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ArcGIS GeoServices REST API | referenced | — | — | source |
| CSV | referenced | 10529 | 1a3e4edc50b65ebb89bc9e4ef2b4cc2e2b01cbc4f0cde5e645ae9002b936d88d | source |
| GeoJSON | referenced | 24859 | 17baa165034209a8e82e8dead38dfbabf0a16a5c5238d715cddc68f40a0901ef | source |
| HTML | referenced | — | — | source |
| KML | referenced | 8978 | cb2874e3601cf06cb184fcecf6c54198c6b697d3b7462b75b6a6430db0c4763b | source |
| SHP | referenced | — | — | source |
Column dictionary
The publisher's own dictionary, preserved verbatim. The archive does not reword a schema into its own vocabulary — how the publisher named a column is evidence about the publisher.
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
OBJECTID_1 | text | |
BFD_ID | text | |
MAP_ID | text | |
MAPCODE | text | |
LOCCODE | text | |
LOCDEPT | text | |
LOCNAME | text | |
LOCCONTACT | text | |
LOCPHONE | text | |
LOCSTNO | text | |
LOCADDR | text | |
LOCOWNER | text | |
LOCWARD | text | |
LOCPARCL | text | |
LOCPRECT | text | |
LOCPLAN | text | |
STUDY | text | |
ABOVE | text | |
ABOVE_DESC | text | |
SOURCE | text | |
GEOADDRESS | text | |
PD | text | |
CT90 | text | |
XCOORD | text | |
YCOORD | text | |
shape_wkt | text | |
POINT_X | text | |
POINT_Y | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:fire-departments
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/fire-departments
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/fire-departments.json
- Version
- 1 · last changed 2 September 2026
Provenance
- Source
- City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
- Licence
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
- Retrieved
- 2 September 2026
- Source identifier
- fire-departments
- Attribution
- City of Boston
- Rights as stated
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)
Transform ladder
| # | Operation | Description | Tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | retrieved the dataset's metadata record from the CKAN package_show endpoint | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 2 | normalize | mapped the portal's catalogue fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatim | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |