# montgomery-county-food-inspections

> https://montgomery-county-food-inspections.pages.dev

## What this site answers

One query, one record. Key: **the record number**.
Format: ^[0-9A-Za-z-]{1,40}$
Entities: 5770

## Source

- Origin: Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services — HHS - Food Inspection Data from July 2024 and onward
- URL: https://data.montgomerycountymd.gov/d/dkrp-gr48
- Last collected: 2026-10-10
- Re-use: Public Domain

## Access points

Every HTML page has a Markdown twin at the same path with the `.md` extension. Example: `/how-to-read/` -> `/how-to-read.md`. Links inside the Markdown files already point to the twins.

Search index, served as JSON with open CORS:

- `https://montgomery-county-food-inspections.pages.dev/d/n/cles.json` — the name-index keys
- `https://montgomery-county-food-inspections.pages.dev/d/n/<key>.json` — names starting with that key -> [identifier, name, city, state, type]
- `https://montgomery-county-food-inspections.pages.dev/d/r/<fragment>.json` — records; fragment = hash of the identifier: h = 0, then for each character h = (h*31 + character code) modulo 4096; in hexadecimal on 3 digits
- `/sitemap.xml` — every page

These paths are **version 1** and will not change without notice. Bulk access, an availability guarantee or a change feed goes through `/pro/`.

Indexable pages: 11

## What this site is NOT

- This is not the official register and does not replace consulting it.
- Holding a licence is the minimum legal requirement, not a quality mark.
- One record per place: County numbers joined by number, then by identical name and address (see How to read).
- Each inspection once, in the latest version the County published.
- Rebuilt from two County files; nothing is added from any other source. The County publishes no permanent establishment number, so this site gathers a place's records in two ways: by number, where the County published an inspection under both its old and its new number; and, failing that, when the name and the address are exactly the same. Two different businesses with the same name at the same address would appear as one record; a business that changed its name or its address appears as two. An inspection describes one visit on one day; it is not a rating of the business today. Owner names are never downloaded.
- This site ranks no one.

## Privacy

Establishments only; the owner column of the County files is never downloaded.