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This guide contains public integration notes for Mississippi. Use it for identifier formats, search behavior, and country-specific caveats. The live source of truth for coverage, pricing, data sources, documents, legal forms, roles, and status values is the pricing page.

Mississippi coverage, pricing, and sources

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Data Sources
Company Identifiers
Search Capabilities
Quirks & Gotchas
Mappings
Data Availability

API access: US-MS is not yet part of the public countryCode enum. Contact us to enable it on your workspace. Requests sent with countryCode: "US-MS" will otherwise return 400 until the enum is expanded.

Data Sources

Mississippi uses a single integration against the Mississippi Secretary of State, Business Services portal (corp.sos.ms.gov). The register covers all for-profit corporations, limited liability companies, non-profit corporations, limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, general partnerships, sole proprietorships, cooperatives, foreign business trusts, and the foreign variants of these structures registered to do business in Mississippi. Each entity on the live portal carries a numeric Business ID as its primary identifier, together with the legal name, filing type, status, formation date, principal office address, registered agent, full officer and director roster (name, mailing address, and title), and name history.

Mississippi does not publish a bulk data extract or open-data feed. All data is fetched live from the Secretary of State public portal on each request.

Company Identifiers

Query Identifiers

Identifier Type	Format	Example	Notes
Business ID	Numeric, typically 6-7 digits	`104297`	Unique identifier assigned by the Mississippi Secretary of State. No leading zeros.

Use /v2/search to resolve a company name to its Business ID before calling /v2/company. The Business ID returned by search is the exact value to pass as id in the profile request.

Identifiers in API Response

Identifier	Format	Example	Found In
`businessId`	Numeric, typically 6-7 digits	`104297`	All entities

Search Capabilities

Search Type	Pattern	Example	Match Type	Expected Results
By Name	2-100 chars	`"Delta Power"`	Starts-with (case-insensitive)	Multiple results
By Business ID	Numeric	`104297`	Exact (`matchType: id`)	Single result

Name search anchors on the beginning of the legal name. The result set is capped at 50 matches. Use a more specific query string to narrow results. The same entity may appear multiple times in name-search results when it has aliases or a prior legal name; deduplicate on the entity’s Business ID.

Quirks & Gotchas

Quirk	Details
Multiple name rows per entity	A single entity can appear more than once in name-search results when it carries aliases or previous legal names. Deduplicate by Business ID.
Name Reservations have no Business ID	Administrative name reservations do not receive a Business ID. They appear in search results but cannot be profiled and are outside company entity scope.
Empty detail page for some dissolved entities	A small number of dissolved entities return an empty detail page from the register. The API returns `resource_not_found` for these cases; retrying will not help.
Officers holding multiple roles	The register stores compound titles (for example “President, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer”). Topograph splits these into one entry per role in `legalRepresentatives`.
Empty officer title	Some officers appear in the register with no title at all. These records are still returned in `legalRepresentatives` with the person’s name and address; the role fields will be absent or unspecified.
No shareholder or UBO register	Mississippi does not publish shareholders or beneficial owners for any entity type.
No activity codes	The Secretary of State does not publish NAICS, NACE, or ISIC codes on the entity detail page.
Sole proprietorships included	Unlike many US states, Mississippi publishes sole proprietorship registrations and fictitious name (DBA) registrations alongside corporate entities.
Trade Register Extract is included	The printable detail page is bundled with the company data at no extra charge. See Documents below.

Mappings

Legal Forms

The Filing Type field on the portal is a closed vocabulary of 14 values. These were enumerated from live portal data by sweeping ten distinct name-search queries across the full register.

All 14 Mississippi entity types

MS Filing Type	Standardized	ISO 20275
Business Corporation	Corporation	`C3JQ`
Foreign Corporation	Corporation
Limited Liability Company (LLC)	LimitedLiabilityCompany	`JY0X`
Foreign Limited Liability Company (LLC)	LimitedLiabilityCompany
Non-Profit Corporation	NonprofitOrganization	`4RCO`
Foreign Non-Profit Corporation	NonprofitOrganization
Limited Partnership (LP)	Partnership	`T91T`
Foreign Limited Partnership (LP)	Partnership
Limited Liability Partnership (LLP)	Partnership
General Partnership	Partnership
Cooperative	Cooperative
Foreign Business Trust	Trust
Sole Proprietorship	SoleProprietorship
Name Reservation	Other

Foreign variants carry no ISO 20275 ELF code because the ELF code belongs to the jurisdiction of formation, not the state of registration. See the pricing page for the full searchable table.

Officer Roles

The register publishes officer titles as free text. The set of observed values is small and largely closed. Topograph maps each raw title to a standardized role.

Common Register Title	Standardized	Notes
President	President
Vice President	VicePresident
Secretary	Secretary
Treasurer	Treasurer
Director	Director
Chairman	Chairman
Chief Executive Officer	ChiefExecutiveOfficer
Chief Financial Officer	ChiefFinancialOfficer
Assistant Secretary	AssistantSecretary
Assistant Treasurer	AssistantTreasurer
Incorporator	Incorporator	Formation-time role only
Other	Other

Officers holding multiple titles are emitted as separate legalRepresentatives entries, one per role. The Registered Agent is returned under otherKeyPersons (not legalRepresentatives) as a service-of-process designee.

Company Statuses

Mississippi publishes 12 distinct status values. Entities in Good Standing are active and in compliance. All other statuses indicate an inactive or terminated state.

Register Status	Notes
Good Standing	Active and in compliance
Dissolved	Voluntarily or administratively dissolved
Cancelled	Registration cancelled
Revoked	Authority to do business revoked
Withdrawn	Foreign entity withdrawn from Mississippi
Merged	Entity merged into another entity
Inactive	No longer active
Void-Failure to File	Voided for failure to file required reports
Void/AFF/Void	Administrative void variant
Intent to Dissolve: Tax	In the process of dissolution for tax reasons
Name Change	Entity name changed (transitional status)
Reserved Name	Applies to Name Reservation filings only

Data Availability

Data Point	Available	Notes
Company name	Yes	Current legal name from the live portal
Company status	Yes	One of 12 published status values (see Company Statuses above)
Registration date	Yes	Effective date of filing as published on the portal
State of incorporation	Yes	State or territory where the entity was originally formed
Legal address	Yes	Principal office address (street, city, state, ZIP)
Legal form	Yes	One of 14 Filing Type values with ISO 20275 mapping where available
Legal representatives	Yes	Officers and directors with name, mailing address, and role title
Registered agent	Yes	Agent name and address from the live portal (returned under `otherKeyPersons`)
Name history	Yes	Previous legal names and aliases (Legal, Previous Legal, Alias, Fictitious Name types)
Trade Register Extract	Yes	Printable detail page included at no extra charge with company data
Articles of Organization / Incorporation	Yes	Formation Form PDF from the register filing history, ordered separately
Annual Report	Yes	Annual Report PDF from the register filing history, ordered separately
Amendment / Other Filing	Yes	Amendments, mergers, reinstatements, and other filings from the register history, ordered separately
Activity codes	No	Not published by the Secretary of State
Shareholders	No	Not collected by the Mississippi business register
UBOs	No	No state beneficial-ownership register; the federal database is restricted
Financial data	No	Not collected

The Trade Register Extract is a printed PDF of the current entity detail page from the Secretary of State portal, included with every company data request at no extra charge. Filed documents (Formation Form, Annual Reports, Amendments, and other filings) are ordered separately and are also available at no register fee. See the pricing page for the full document catalog.

Example API Responses

Search by Name

curl -X POST "https://api.topograph.co/v2/search?country=US-MS&query=Delta+Power" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

[
  {
    "id": "104297",
    "legalName": "DELTA POWER COMPANY",
    "countryCode": "US-MS",
    "matchReason": {
      "matchType": "default"
    },
    "address": {
      "region": "MS",
      "countryCode": "US"
    }
  }
]

Search by Business ID

curl -X POST "https://api.topograph.co/v2/search?country=US-MS&query=104297" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

[
  {
    "id": "104297",
    "legalName": "DELTA POWER COMPANY",
    "countryCode": "US-MS",
    "matchReason": {
      "matchType": "id"
    }
  }
]

Company Profile

curl -X POST "https://api.topograph.co/v2/company" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "countryCode": "US-MS",
    "id": "104297",
    "dataPoints": ["company", "legalRepresentatives"],
    "mode": "verification"
  }'

{
  "company": {
    "id": "104297",
    "countryCode": "US-MS",
    "identifiers": { "businessId": "104297" },
    "legalName": "DELTA POWER COMPANY",
    "registrationDate": "1982-06-15",
    "legalForm": {
      "localName": "Business Corporation",
      "standardized": "Corporation"
    },
    "status": "Good Standing",
    "legalAddress": {
      "streetAddress": "123 Main Street",
      "city": "Jackson",
      "region": "MS",
      "postalCode": "39201",
      "countryCode": "US"
    }
  },
  "legalRepresentatives": [
    {
      "fullName": "Jane A. Smith",
      "role": {
        "localName": "President",
        "standardized": "President"
      }
    }
  ]
}

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Mississippi coverage, pricing, and sources

​Table of Contents

​Data Sources

​Company Identifiers

​Query Identifiers

​Identifiers in API Response

​Search Capabilities

​Quirks & Gotchas

​Mappings

​Legal Forms

​Officer Roles

​Company Statuses

​Data Availability

​Example API Responses

​Search by Name

​Search by Business ID

​Company Profile

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Table of Contents

Data Sources

Company Identifiers

Query Identifiers

Identifiers in API Response

Search Capabilities

Quirks & Gotchas

Mappings

Legal Forms

Officer Roles

Company Statuses

Data Availability

Example API Responses

Search by Name

Search by Business ID

Company Profile