Address Points Retired: Over 40,000 Historical Addresses for Washington, D.C.

Over 40,000 retired address points document locations that once existed but no longer do in Washington, D.C. The data was created as part of the Master Address Repository (MAR) for the Office of the Chief Technology Officer and Department of Buildings. It includes features such as placement location, created date, and last edited date, with a data dictionary available online.

Use Cases

• Analyze historical urban development patterns based on retired address locations.
• Validate current address databases by cross-referencing with retired records.
• Support historical research on property and neighborhood changes based on address lifespan data.

Strengths

• Contains over 40,000 retired address records.
• Includes temporal features like created date and last edited date.
• Data dictionary is available for field semantics.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

District of Columbia Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) and Department of Buildings (DOB).

Collection Method

Created as part of the Master Address Repository (MAR).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-25 08:15:21.405294; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Washington, D.C., United States.