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Check a place

Use coverage to decide what Locus can answer for this place. The check tells you which records are available now, which lanes are partial, and whether the right next step is a report, a watch, or source discovery.

Broad coverage

Many places can support national or statewide context such as flood maps, environmental records, governing districts, nearby facilities, housing-stock context, and source-discovery leads.

Local depth

Deeper detail varies by market. Where Locus has confirmed the right source, it can add:

  • parcel and property-tax context;
  • permit, inspection, and development activity;
  • zoning and planning overlays;
  • capital projects and transportation work;
  • local service, code, or incident context where appropriate;
  • tax calendars, reappraisal timing, and appeal windows;
  • local policy and public-meeting artifacts.

Data-center questions

For a data center, compute campus, server farm, or crypto-mining concern, Locus can return an official-source search plan: planning records, agendas, utility and water questions, grid signals, incentives, ordinances, and who decides locally. The tool gives a verification path, not a match/no-match verdict.

How to use it

  • As a person: search an address or ZIP at locus.report.
  • As an agent: use Agent workflows and start with locus_lane_availability — the free know-before-you-pay preflight that maps a ZIP or address to the lanes that work there (national / local / varies / not covered) plus a buy signal per paid tool. Use locus_coverage_check for a single lane and locus_coverage_map for the whole registry.

What a coverage answer tells you

  • What is available for the place.
  • What can ground a report today.
  • What is missing, partial, or still discovery-only.
  • Whether the next useful step is a report, ongoing monitoring, or more source research.

For output boundaries, see Accuracy and boundaries.