Divisions: divisionsByAddress

Looks up political geographic divisions for a single address. Try it now.

Request

HTTP request

GET https://www.googleapis.com/civicinfo/v2/divisionsByAddress

Parameters

Parameter name	Value	Description
Optional query parameters
address	string	The address to look up.

Request body

Don't supply a request body with this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a response body with the following structure:

{
  "kind": "civicinfo#divisionsByAddressResponse",
  "normalizedInput": {
    "locationName": string,
    "line1": string,
    "line2": string,
    "line3": string,
    "city": string,
    "state": string,
    "zip": string,
  },
  "divisions": {
    key: {
      "name": string,
        "alsoKnownAs": [
        string
      ],
    },
  }

Property name	Value	Description	Notes
kind	string	Identifies the kind of resource. Value: the fixed string "civicinfo#divisionsByAddressResponse".
normalizedInput	nested object	The normalized version of the requested address.
normalizedInput.locationName	string	The name of the location.
normalizedInput.line1	string	The street name and number of the address.
normalizedInput.line2	string	The second line of the address, if needed.
normalizedInput.line3	string	The third line of the address, if needed.
normalizedInput.city	string	The city or town of the address.
normalizedInput.state	string	The US two letter state abbreviation of the address.
normalizedInput.zip	string	The US Postal Zip Code of the address.
divisions	object	Political geographic divisions that contain the requested address.
divisions.(key)	nested object	The unique Open Civic Data identifier (OCD ID) for the division.
divisions.(key).alsoKnownAs[]	list	Any other valid OCD IDs that refer to the same division. As OCD IDs are human-readable and predictable, there are occasionally several identifiers for a single division. These identifiers are defined to be equivalent to one another, and one is always indicated as the primary identifier. The primary identifier is returned in OCD ID, and any other equivalent valid identifiers are returned in the list. For example, if the following division's OCD ID is ocd-division/country:us/district:dc, then the list contains ocd-division/country:us/state:dc.
divisions.(key).name	string	The name of the division.

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