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US Places, Then

US places then: county on a date, PLSS land, GNIS names, old topo maps, post offices.

iandersoianderso/us-places-mcpUpdated Oct 6, 2026

server.json

{
  "$schema": "https://static.modelcontextprotocol.io/schemas/2025-12-11/server.schema.json",
  "name": "io.github.ianderso/us-places-mcp",
  "description": "US places then: county on a date, PLSS land, GNIS names, old topo maps, post offices.",
  "title": "US Places, Then",
  "repository": {
    "url": "https://github.com/ianderso/us-places-mcp",
    "source": "github"
  },
  "version": "0.2.0",
  "packages": [
    {
      "registryType": "pypi",
      "registryBaseUrl": "https://pypi.org",
      "identifier": "us-places-mcp",
      "version": "0.2.0",
      "runtimeHint": "uvx",
      "transport": {
        "type": "stdio"
      },
      "environmentVariables": [
        {
          "description": "OpenHistoricalMap's Overpass endpoint.",
          "default": "https://overpass-api.openhistoricalmap.org/api/interpreter",
          "name": "US_PLACES_OVERPASS_URL"
        },
        {
          "description": "BLM's national PLSS (CadNSDI) map service.",
          "default": "https://gis.blm.gov/arcgis/rest/services/Cadastral/BLM_Natl_PLSS_CadNSDI/MapServer",
          "name": "US_PLACES_PLSS_URL"
        },
        {
          "description": "USGS's GNIS map service (The National Map).",
          "default": "https://carto.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/geonames/MapServer",
          "name": "US_PLACES_GNIS_URL"
        },
        {
          "description": "Where USGS keeps the August 2021 GNIS state files.",
          "default": "https://prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com/StagedProducts/GeographicNames/Archive/MainDomestic",
          "name": "US_PLACES_GNIS_ARCHIVE_URL"
        },
        {
          "description": "The National Map's TNM Access products API.",
          "default": "https://tnmaccess.nationalmap.gov/api/v1/products",
          "name": "US_PLACES_TNM_URL"
        },
        {
          "description": "Harvard Dataverse, which holds the US post offices dataset.",
          "default": "https://dataverse.harvard.edu",
          "name": "US_PLACES_DATAVERSE_URL"
        },
        {
          "description": "Directory for the on-disk response cache and the downloaded datasets.",
          "default": "~/.cache/us-places-mcp",
          "name": "US_PLACES_CACHE_DIR"
        },
        {
          "description": "HTTP timeout in seconds.",
          "default": "60",
          "name": "US_PLACES_TIMEOUT"
        },
        {
          "description": "An email address or URL appended to the User-Agent, so the services can reach whoever runs the server.",
          "name": "US_PLACES_CONTACT"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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Runs code—python
Installs—pypi:us-places-mcp@0.2.0
Runs install scripts—None
NetworkNoneNone
Needs credentialsNoneNone
Outside the workspace—None
Agent tools—None

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Versions

  1. #10.2.0latestOct 7, 2026