§ 02 —Documentation
02 / 07The Data
Atlas holds 306,408,066 verified records drawn from 319 active sources. That number counts records ingested from an external source. It excludes the engine's own operational rows, a further 14,092,473 rows we track but never present as coverage, because the alternative is a headline inflated by our own bookkeeping. One number, one definition, every surface reading the same source.
The layers fall into two groups. The first describes people and places: who owns what, what it is worth, what is changing hands, who is in trouble, and what the people who govern a place are about to decide. The second describes infrastructure: what a site can physically support, what constrains it, and what the utility and the state have planned around it. The first group is the deepest build today. The second is being built out for the data center market and improves everything on top of it.
People and Places
Property and parcel.
Parcel-level ownership, assessed value, land use classification, building characteristics and geographic identifiers. This is the anchor layer, and everything else in Atlas joins back to a parcel.
| Market | Parcels |
|---|---|
| Florida, all 67 counties | 10,998,001 |
| North Carolina, 99 counties | 5,817,111 |
| Connecticut, statewide | 1,352,834 |
Coverage extends across 18 states in total. What varies is depth, and the Coverage section says exactly where.
Transaction.
Sales history, transfer dates, consideration amounts and deed types, tracked continuously. Florida alone carries 2,950,728 sale records joined to the statewide parcel spine. Transaction history is what turns a static record into a moving one: how a market moves, where capital is flowing, which assets are changing hands.
Distress and filings.
2,584,746 records across tax delinquency, foreclosure and lis pendens activity, recorded liens, estate proxies and code enforcement. Distress coverage is county-level and uneven by design, because we build the vectors that exist in a given jurisdiction rather than claiming a uniform national layer. One principle here was earned the hard way: administrative distress outranks foreclosure. Tax delinquency, code enforcement and vacancy registries are evaluated with equal or greater priority than foreclosure vectors, because foreclosure data repeatedly failed on contact with real records while the administrative signals held.
Community and governance.
Jurisdiction registries, governing body composition, hearing calendars, agenda items, stored agendas and minutes, ordinance and action ledgers, point-in-time posture snapshots, and testimony given at the podium. Built for Florida, Connecticut and Ohio. In Florida alone Atlas tracks 478 jurisdictions across 9,992 meetings and 144,592 agenda items. This layer answers the question a parcel record cannot: not what the land is, but what the people who govern it are about to decide.
Every consequential entry here is held to two rules. An adoption is recorded only on a second reading, final hearing or resolution vote, enforced by a database constraint rather than a convention. And an entry counts as verified only when the source document is stored alongside it with its cryptographic hash. News coverage alone leaves an entry unverified, because trackers and press releases are frequently wrong and the record has to come from the jurisdiction's own documents.
Commercial and permits.
Building permits, commercial fundamentals, CMBS loan-level data, non-ad-valorem assessments, condo and HOA records, and debt intelligence derived from recorded mortgages and satisfactions.
- Jun 9, 2026Auction held, no salereplaced at source
- Jul 17, 2026Auction held, no salereplaced at source
- Aug 21, 2026Auction scheduledreplaced at source
- Aug 22, 2026Auction scheduledreplaced at source
- Sep 22, 2026Sold at auction — $172,500current
Infrastructure
Siting and power.
94,619 transmission lines, 75,327 substations, 39,692 generators, 18,194 interconnection queue positions, utility capital plans, and state-level large-load tariff rules. We publish distance to transmission, planned upgrades and utility site lists. We do not publish available megawatts or substation headroom, because those are not knowable from the sourced record.
Environmental constraints.
16,207,097 parcel flood zone determinations, national wetlands inventory, consumptive-use water permits across five Florida water management districts, conservation easements, and air permits.
Policy posture.
A 50-state record of data center policy posture: moratorium status, incentive status and regulatory docket detail, at the depth each state supports. The Coverage section says how deep that record goes in each state.
Signals
A parcel identifier, an assessed value and a deed transfer are facts. Connecting them and deriving something decision-relevant from them is what turns records into intelligence, and most providers stop at the record. A signal is a derived indicator computed from one or more underlying records, generated as new data flows through the pipeline with no manual analysis step. Current signal families:
- 01Distress indicators derived from filing activity, tax delinquency and ownership patterns
- 02Equity and debt indicators computed from assessed value, transaction history and recorded instruments
- 03Market velocity derived from transaction frequency and price movement within a geography
- 04Ownership pattern flags derived from entity registrations, LLC activity and transfer sequences
- 05Agenda-item signals derived from what a jurisdiction has placed on a meeting agenda
Signal generation runs only against the Verified and Usable quality tiers, enforced in code rather than left to whoever is writing a query. The tiers are described under How Atlas Works.