Dataset
Fire Districts
Boston Fire Department (BFD) district boundaries per general order of the fire department. New districts went into effect on 8/3/2011. This data was last updated on 9/22/2015 by BFD personnel. Boundaries are coincident with the Street Address Management (SAM) conflated street centerline data.…
Dataset
- Publisher
- Boston Maps
- Spatial coverage
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Fields
- 7
- Keywords
- bfd, boston, bostonmaps, ckan, districts, fire
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/fire-districts
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 | 1287 | e0af9bd85a1bf195f560c78802497aa937cfe49feab0372b19aeda107dd87d76 | source |
| GeoJSON | referenced | 349823 | 16ac011d451e95b443cde1a3f14064a28b2eff3ed2314f90974252e12a08a1c0 | source |
| HTML | referenced | — | — | source |
| KML | referenced | 441173 | c47790c3dd7a35a1e8904e2e1a143c3ba0b9d95339bd246045515236e387ebe7 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
FIREDIST_I | text | |
DISTRICT | text | |
CAD_Dist | text | |
Descr | text | |
Shape_Length | text | |
Shape_Area | text | |
shape_wkt | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:fire-districts
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/fire-districts
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/fire-districts.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-districts
- 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 |