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Every City in the USA is operated by NMajor Studios LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company (“we” in these terms).

Every City in the USA helps readers find Census geographies across the 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Discovery distinguishes Census places, minor civil divisions such as towns and townships, consolidated cities, and Puerto Rico municipios. Each dataset states its own geography and source period. The established annual Population Estimates Program file and paid releases retain their published coverage; broader discovery does not expand those files.

The free public data files identified on their download pages as CC0, including cities.csv and anonymous filtered exports derived from it, are released under CC0 (public domain dedication). You can copy them, transform them, redistribute them, and build on them without asking permission and without paying a fee.

Every original map published by Every City in the USA is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 unless its page or file says otherwise. This includes map-builder output, ready-made state and national maps, Growth Atlas maps, the homepage coverage map, and city locator maps. Original graphics explicitly marked CC BY 4.0 use the same terms. You may copy, adapt, publish, and use this work commercially.

When sharing a CC BY map or graphic, give appropriate credit to Every City in the USA, include the source-page URL when reasonably practical, include the CC BY 4.0 license URL, and say if you modified it. For online use, a linked source credit is our suggested default because it helps readers verify the work. You may qualify the source link with nofollow or another rel value to match your publishing policy. A link that passes ranking credit is not required. A plain-text URL is fine where hyperlinks are not practical.

Downloadable files may not contain a visible logo, watermark, or credit line. Some SVG files contain invisible license metadata so the terms can travel with the file. Federal source records and imagery remain public-domain government works; the CC BY license applies only to the original selection, design, compilation, analysis, and presentation that Every City in the USA contributes.

The underlying Census source data is also public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. Attribution is appreciated but not required. If you do cite a source for the data, use https://www.everycityintheusa.com/sources/ for the full methodology and provenance chain.

Paid packages are separate from the free public downloads. Each paid offer identifies the included release, formats, update rights, hosted-download period, refund terms, and customer license before checkout. Those product-specific terms govern the package and delivery service. They do not remove anyone’s right to obtain or use the underlying public-domain federal records from their original agencies.

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A one-time purchase grants only the release and rights named in the offer. Corrections to an acquired release remain included. A later data edition is not included unless the offer expressly says it is. After payment is independently confirmed, the purchasing browser may download that package. A secure email link verifies the purchase address and opens the account library. Reaching a checkout-success page alone does not create access.

Current sandbox offers use simulated payments and evaluation terms. Real-money sales remain disabled until the commercial license, refund and hosted-download terms are approved and shown with the offer.

The site is provided as-is. You may read it, link to it, and quote from it. The site’s HTML, CSS, and OG images are released under CC0 except for the maps and marked graphics covered above. The wordmark and logo are retained as brand marks. Do not use them in ways that imply endorsement of your work by this site or its operator.

• Don’t scrape excessively. The public CSV download exists precisely so you don’t need to scrape HTML pages at scale.
• Don’t republish this site as your own. Using the data in your own project is fine; mirroring the site and claiming it as yours is not.
• Don’t use the wordmark or logo to imply that this site, the Census Bureau, or its operator endorses your work.

Outside those three constraints, the free CC0 data and public site remain available under the terms stated above. Paid package use follows the separate terms accepted with that purchase.