How to cite Ohio Hometown Atlas
Citing a page
Cite any page on this site in the form:
Ohio Hometown Atlas (Open Shower Co), "<page title>", <page URL>, built <build date>, accessed <date>.
For example:
Ohio Hometown Atlas (Open Shower Co), "43230 · Gahanna and Columbus, Franklin County", https://hometownatlas.openshowerco.com/zip/43230/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].
Citing one fact
To cite a single figure rather than the page as a whole, cite the page and add the public record it came from:
Ohio Hometown Atlas (Open Shower Co), "43230 · Gahanna and Columbus, Franklin County", https://hometownatlas.openshowerco.com/zip/43230/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date]; radon from the Ohio Department of Health, ZIP test data since 2010.
Every fact on the site is followed by a source link built the same way, so the record behind any figure is one click away.
License
The compilation, the page text, the locator maps and the open JSON data are licensed CC BY 4.0: you may reuse and remix them with attribution. Photographs keep the license stated in their own caption. The public records a page links to keep their own terms — most federal data is public domain, and Ohio agencies are republished as they publish them. Every page also has a machine-readable twin under the open JSON API, covered by the same terms.