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The datasets behind this guide, published as CSV with their sources and their caveats attached. Take them, use them commercially, build something better.

Terms

These files are compiled from public records held by Mecklenburg County, the State Historic Preservation Office and other public bodies, plus our own verification work. Use them for anything, including commercially. We ask only that you credit this guide and keep the caveats with the data, because a figure repeated without its caveat becomes a wrong figure.

We are not the original source for the underlying government records and make no claim over them. What we add is the extraction, the cross-checking and the notes on what each field does and does not mean.

Mecklenburg park amenities

Every park and recreation site in the county mapping layer, with its type, district, recorded parking and space count, operating days and hours, and the amenity flags the county maintains.

Source: Mecklenburg County GIS (ParkLocations) · Rows: 392 · Size: 80 KB · Download CSV

Read this before you use it. One row per mapped access point, not per park: 392 rows resolve to about 381 distinct park-and-municipality combinations. The county’s ADA flag is deliberately excluded because it is not reliable in either direction.

Public art register

Every work in the Arts & Science Council register, with artist, work type, owner, ownership type, setting and coordinates.

Source: Mecklenburg County GIS (ASCArtInstallations) · Rows: 242 · Size: 45 KB · Download CSV

Read this before you use it. The register records what is installed and who owns it. It does not say whether a work is currently on display, and 98 works are interior.

Greenway entrances

All public entrances to the county greenway network, with entrance type, access type and coordinates. 75 are typed as parking.

Source: Mecklenburg County GIS (GreenwayTrailEntrances) · Rows: 422 · Size: 38 KB · Download CSV

Read this before you use it. An entrance typed for parking tells you parking exists there. It says nothing about how many spaces, what it costs, or when the gate shuts — and trail hours and car park hours are not the same.

National Register nominations index

All 105 Mecklenburg County National Register nominations with direct links to the state’s PDF copies.

Source: North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office · Rows: 105 · Size: 12 KB · Download CSV

Read this before you use it. The National Park Service’s own NPGallery copies of these Mecklenburg records are not digitised — every reference number returns an identical placeholder PDF. The state copies are the real ones. That fact alone will save the next person an hour.

Charlotte Douglas points of interest

708 airport locations — shops, restaurants, services, gates — extracted from the airport’s own page payload.

Source: cltairport.com · Rows: 708 · Size: 123 KB · Download CSV

Read this before you use it. A snapshot. Airport concessions change often and this is not maintained in real time.

Hijacked and lost business domains

30 Charlotte-area businesses whose listed domain no longer belongs to them, separated into hijacked (now serving unrelated content, usually offshore gambling), redirected, and parked. Every one of them returns HTTP 200.

Source: This guide’s own verification pass, 13–17 September 2026 · Rows: 30 · Size: 12 KB · Download CSV

Read this before you use it. A lost domain is NOT a closed business. Several of these businesses are trading and simply let a registration lapse. Do not use this file to claim any business has closed.

Charlotte search phrasings

2,506 distinct autocomplete phrasings harvested systematically for Charlotte topics — what people actually type, as opposed to what guides assume they type.

Source: Google autocomplete, harvested 2026-09-15 · Rows: 2,506 · Size: 166 KB · Download CSV

Read this before you use it. Autocomplete shows phrasing, not volume. There is no search-volume figure anywhere in this dataset and none should be inferred.

What is not here

No opening hours, no prices, no admission rates and no ratings — we do not collect them, so we cannot publish them. No personal data of any kind.

If you find an error

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