US Places, Then MCP Server

by iandersoio.github.ianderso/us-places-mcpv0.2.0

US places then: county on a date, PLSS land, GNIS names, old topo maps, post offices.

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Install US Places, Then MCP server

claude mcp add us-places -- uvx us-places-mcp

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "us-places": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "us-places-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Add to ~/.cursor/mcp.json (global) or .cursor/mcp.json (project).

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "us-places": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "us-places-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Settings → Developer → Edit Config (claude_desktop_config.json), then restart.

{
  "servers": {
    "us-places": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "us-places-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Add to .vscode/mcp.json in your workspace.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "us-places": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "us-places-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Add to ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json.

Variable	Required	Secret	Description
US_PLACES_OVERPASS_URL	—	—	OpenHistoricalMap's Overpass endpoint.
US_PLACES_PLSS_URL	—	—	BLM's national PLSS (CadNSDI) map service.
US_PLACES_GNIS_URL	—	—	USGS's GNIS map service (The National Map).
US_PLACES_GNIS_ARCHIVE_URL	—	—	Where USGS keeps the August 2021 GNIS state files.
US_PLACES_TNM_URL	—	—	The National Map's TNM Access products API.
US_PLACES_DATAVERSE_URL	—	—	Harvard Dataverse, which holds the US post offices dataset.
US_PLACES_CACHE_DIR	—	—	Directory for the on-disk response cache and the downloaded datasets.
US_PLACES_TIMEOUT	—	—	HTTP timeout in seconds.
US_PLACES_CONTACT	—	—	An email address or URL appended to the User-Agent, so the services can reach whoever runs the server.