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The National Register Information System is a database of the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. It includes more than 84,000 entries of historic sites that are currently listed on the National Register, that were listed and later removed, or that are pending listing.

The database, as a work of U.S. Federal employees, is in the public domain. Versions of the database are periodically made available for downloading by the public. For example, in 2013, the downloadable version includes NRIS data through a date within 2010. Meanwhile, the live NRIS database in use at the National Register includes new listings that are announced weekly.

It was computerized in 1986. The database is used in answering more than 4,000 public queries per year. As a computerized index to the National Register properties, "NRIS has opened access to the National Register documentation that was not possible a decade ago", according to Diane E. Miller, chief of a unit in the Interagency Resources Division of the National Park Service.

A published article by Diane Miller describes the computerization of the NRIS database starting in the 1980s. Another article, "Computerizing the National Register of Historic Places" CRM: Cultural Resources Management 21:4 1998 also describes the computerization.

Accuracy of the NRIS database may be imperfect. For example, a 2004 paper addressed accuracy of spatial location data for part of the NRIS content.

A search interface to much of the NRIS data is provided by the National Register office; this allows searching by NRHP listing name or other property identifiers, and returns information (but not all available information from NRIS on that property.

Private websites which serve up NRIS data as a mirror or with addition of advertisements or other data include www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com and archiplanet.com.

Usage of the NRIS database is described at various U.S. state historic preservation agency locations, including for example, in Maine. It is listed as a library resource of the Mesa County libraries, of Mesa County, Colorado.

References

1. "Introduction—Documentation". NPS Focus. National Park Service. Retrieved 2013-03-10.
2. National Register of Historic Places: Weekly List Actions
3. Diane E. Miller (Undated). "National Register Information is a Hidden Treasure" (PDF). National Park Service. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
4. "Notes to Chapter 18: Searching for Women in the National Register of Historic Places, Restoring Women's History Through Historic Preservation". Johns Hopkins University Press. 2003. p. 422.
5. Nicole Edwards, Kevin Kuhn, Kurt Donaldson (June 2004). "Digital Conversion, Accuracy Improvement, and Product Generation for the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia" (PDF).{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
6. Note: Architect/builder/engineer names associated with a site, for example, are reported in NRIS itself (and NRIS mirrors) but are not available in the returned results of Advanced search query.
7. ""Advanced" search query for U.S. Registered Historic Places". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. Retrieved March 10, 2013.
8. Maine Historic Preservation Commission FAQ for Maine residents
9. NRIS as a library resource

External links

• National Register Information System download webpage

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