LibGuides: Iowa State Agency Databases: Home

Introduction

This is an annotated list of databases produced by Iowa State Agencies listed by database subject. It was last checked for broken links on January 6, 2024.

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Agriculture & Food Sources

Farming

The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship maintains a list of searchable directories at http://www.iowaagriculture.gov/.

Iowa Century and Heritage Farm Directory
The Iowa Century Farm program recognizes owners and families that have owned farm land for over a century. Heritage Farms acknowledge farm lands owned for 150 years. The directory can be limited by name, city and county.
Licensed Businesses & Ag Directories
A comprehensive portal of businesses licensed through the Iowa Department of Agriculture. Basic directory searches by business name or county are included for animal and livestock, grains and other crops, fertilizer dealers, and nursery and seed sellers.
Iowa Farm to School Producer Directory
A collaboration between the Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship and the Department of Education, this program aims to connect farmers to schools for nutritional and educational activities. This directory can be searched by product, growing method, and county.
Iowa Fruit and Vegetable Growers Directory
Maintained by the Ag Diversification and Market Development Bureau, this database can be searched by type of fruit grower, business name, city and county.
Meat and Poultry Inspection Bureau - Licensed Plants
Search for licensed meat and poultry plants by county, city, name or class. Results include basic contact information and description of state or federal classification.

Business, Finance & Economy

Business Entities Search
Database allows you to search by either business entity number or name. The name search offers the option of entering the first few letters or words of a business entity name, in order to retrieve a list of all business entities beginning with the same letters. For example, entering NOW may return NOW INC., NOWHERE INC., and NOW PUBLICATIONS INC.
Great Iowa Treasure Hunt
Database attempts to match unclaimed property with its legal owner.
Notaries
Search for notary publics by name, commission number, status (active or inactive), business, city, and language spoken. Entries retrieved display the same information, as well as a history of all documents the notary has filed with the Secretary of State's office.

Crime, Criminal Justice & Law Enforcement

I-CRIME Portal
This portal organized Iowa Uniform Crime Reporting annual data by county. Information by county includes crime count by 100,000 people and county by offense. Because of changes in reporting requirements, data included begins in 2021 using the FBI's National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS)
Iowa Online Docket Records
Provides basic trial and appellate case information, including case titles and filings, criminal charges, case disposition, child support payments, and fine payments, free of charge (advanced search capabilities require registration and fee payment). Covers September 1997 to present (some counties' records go back as far as October 1991).
Iowa Uniform Crime Reporting System - Agency Monthly Tracker
The Department of Public Safety maintains this database of annual statistics reported by policing agency, including police departments and county sheriffs. The number of incidents and arrests are used in the FBI's National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). Data can be downloaded as PDF, Excel or CSV files.
Offender Search
Prisoner locator service is searchable by name, birth date range, gender, location, offense, and county of commitment. Inmate records include name, offense (while incarcerated), state identification number, holding facility, and projected release date.
Sex Offender Registry
Offenders convicted or adjudicated on or after July 1, 1995 must register. The database is searchable by name, approximate age and/or physical description, victim criteria, current city, county, or zip code, and/or county where convicted. Updated hourly.

Earth & the Environment

Contaminated Sites Tracking Database
Maintained by the Department of Natural Resources, contaminated sites contain various federal and state programs including brownfields and Superfund sites. The database can be searched by site location or documents related to site.
Iowa Natural Areas Inventory
Maintained by the Department of Natural Resources, the INAI includes state-wide and county information on threatened, endangered, and other rare species in Iowa.

Education

Adopted School Budget Summaries
Maintained by the Department of Management, each school district is required to submit a yearly budget summary. Statewide files can be downloaded from the main page. To access individual school districts click on FY links. Items can be searched by school district and fiscal year back to 2017.
Iowa School Performance Profiles
Maintained by the Department of Education, reports can be found for public schools for required information under the federal federal Every Student Succeeds Act and state regulations. There are also demographics on enrollment included. Data is available back to 2018.
Post Secondary Readiness Reports
Maintained by the Department of Education, this database includes statistics and metrics for student preparedness for post-secondary education. Reports can be searched for by public high school. Different reports can be run for demographics, remedial courses, and charted progress.
School Budget Reference Files
Maintained by the Iowa Department of Management, the archive includes a variety of reports on tax revenue dating back to 2003, including information on revenue, levies, and tax rates. Reports are often available in Excel files and can be searched by year and resource type.

Government Agencies & Elected Officials

Iowa Directory Services
The State of Iowa Directory includes searches for state employees and state departments. The "More Options" button in the Employee Directory adds several useful search fields, including city and department.
Find Your Legislator
The Iowa Legislator maintains this search for elected state officials. Searches can be done by visual map, address, county, city, or school district.

Government Finances & Contracts

28E Agreement Search
A 28E filing is a formal agreement between two entities agreeing to share a service. An example would be multiple counties agreeing to create a combined agency to provide public transit. Maintained by the Secretary of State, a search can be run by name, service type, organization type and by date.
Audit Reports
This searchable database of downloadable PDF audits by the Auditor of State include government agencies, medical facilities, schools, and others. Audits are archived back to 2000.
City Annual Finance Reports
Maintained by the Auditor of State, financial reports by city are searching by city and year dating back to 2013.
Local Government Valuation and Finance
Maintained by the Iowa Department of Management, this database can contains budgets, amendments, annual financial reports, and valuation reports for localities and school districts.

Health, Medicine & Safety

Direct Care Worker Registry and Health Facilities Database
The Department of Inspections & Appeals maintains databases for the registry of direct care workers and health facilities. The health worker registry can be searched by ID, name and location. Health facilities can be searched by institution type and location and includes surveys, complaints, and incident reports.
Iowa Department of Public Health - Public License Search
This database of licenses covers a wide variety of businesses serving the public, including barbers, psychologists, social workers, and morticians. Licenses can be searched by board, business name, and location. A complaint form is connected to each entry.

History, People & Culture

Iowa Publications Online
An "online archive" for documents produced by state agencies and intended for the general public. Search title, abstract, subject, or keywords; or browse by agency.

Laws, Legislative Materials, and Legal Issues

Find Legislation
Provides searchable databases allowing the tracking of House and Senate bills, amendments, and resolutions through all their processes.
Iowa Attorney General Opinions
Provides a searchable database of opinions 1898 to the present.
Iowa Law & Rules
Searchable databases of Iowa Code, Iowa Acts, Iowa Chamber Rules, Iowa Administrative Code, Iowa Administrative Bulletin, Iowa Election Laws, Iowa Constitution, and Iowa Court Rules.
Legislative Document Research
A complete search of Iowa Legislature publications, Legislative Document Research allows users to search codes, legislation, committee hearings, published reports, and education and promotional materials in multiple databases at one time. Searching by a category (i.e. Environmental Protection) returns a variety of publications related to a subject. There is a basic and advanced search.

Licensing

Iowa Professional Licensing
Maintained by the Iowa Professional Licensing Bureau, the Search License database contains the status of licensed professionals in the following fields: accountants, appraisers, architects, engineers and land surveyors, interior designers, landscape architects, and real estate professionals.

Recreation, Travel & Tourism

Hunting and Fishing License Vendors
Search by county, city, or zip code to locate a fishing and hunting license vendor. Licenses can also be purchased online.

Statistics, Data & Mapping/GIS

Open Data - State of Iowa
A portal for viewing and downloading data collected and produced by government agencies. The data is either linked to other state maintained databases or downloaded directly from the site (most information is available in spreadsheet/csv file formats). There are a series of video guides with instructions on downloading data or working with it on the site.

Transportation

County & City Maps
An interactive map of Iowa allowing selection of maps down to county or city level.
Historic Bridges of Iowa
This simple database includes images, historic details, and measurements of hundreds of historic bridges in Iowa. Bridges can be searched by County or by Bridge Type.

Voting & Elections

IECDB State/Local Campaign Disclosure Reports
The IECDB reports include a wide variety of public disclosures and donations to political organizations (candidates, county parties, PACs, etc.). When using the large "Searchable Database," downloading the "Committee Listings" spreadsheets is helpful in determining committee names and IDs.
Lobbyist Information
Includes searchable databases of lobbyists, clients, contact information, functions, and declarations on bills.
Iowa Voter Registration Search
Maintained by the Secretary of State, this portal allows users to search the statewide voter registration database to check on registration status.

Empty Subjects - Can you help?

As of August 2023, we were unable to locate publicly searchable databases produced by an Iowa State Agency in these areas:

Community & Social Services
Jobs & Unemployment
Military & Veterans
Science & Technology

If you know of Iowa produced databases in these or other subjects shown here, please use the "email me" link in the Documents Specialist box above to drop us a line.