Dataset
Fire Hydrants
<div>City of Boston fire hydrants. Maintained and updated by Boston Water and Sewer Commission (BWSC). </div><div>Last updated January 2019. </div>
Dataset
- Publisher
- Boston Maps
- Spatial coverage
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Fields
- 28
- Keywords
- bfd, boston, bostonmaps, bparc, ckan, fire, hubhacks, hydrants, open
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/fire-hydrants
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 | 4950386 | a9d7156dbe6fa2eee8a07ca438a69904b79f0012f0849fd4eca10d2360258b33 | source |
| GeoJSON | referenced | 10728946 | 684e26859dad2489f8ba4194e872a079ebe28a8578bab5f110f382b64a2c7a2a | source |
| HTML | referenced | — | — | source |
| KML | referenced | 1720329 | 408e866afde43e11791261beaa2c8f69ef3bf8253b6dfe19eb27c35706184e81 | 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 | |
ANCILLARYR | text | |
ENABLED | numeric | |
FEATURE_ID | numeric | |
PLACEMENT_ | text | |
PLACEMENT1 | timestamp | |
UPDATE_ID | text | |
UPDATE_DAT | timestamp | |
SYNCH_FLAG | text | |
SYMBOL_ROT | numeric | |
FACILITY_I | text | |
SUBTYPE_CO | numeric | |
SERVICE_AR | text | |
INSTALL_DA | timestamp | |
HYDRANT_MA | text | |
OWNER_CODE | text | |
METERED_FL | text | |
ADDRESS_NU | text | |
STREET_FEA | numeric | |
CROSS_STRE | numeric | |
LOC_SOURCE | text | |
MANUFACTUR | numeric | |
HYDRANT_MO | text | |
Longitude | numeric | |
Latitude | numeric | |
shape_wkt | text | |
POINT_X | numeric | |
POINT_Y | numeric |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:fire-hydrants
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/fire-hydrants
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/fire-hydrants.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-hydrants
- 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 |