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This guide contains public integration notes for North Dakota. 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.

North Dakota coverage, pricing, and sources

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Data Sources
Company Identifiers
Search Capabilities
Quirks & Gotchas
Mappings
- Legal Forms
- Company Status
Data Availability

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

Data Sources

North Dakota uses a single live integration against the North Dakota Secretary of State FirstStop register at firststop.sos.nd.gov. The portal covers every domestic and foreign entity filed in North Dakota: for-profit and nonprofit corporations, limited liability companies, cooperative associations, insurance companies, trade names, fictitious partnership names, and reserved names. Every request resolves live against the FirstStop register. North Dakota does not publish a free open-data feed or bulk extract; the register’s Data List Requests are sold as paid subscriptions to authenticated users and are not exposed through Topograph. The register publishes: legal name, filing type and subtype, current status, three standing flags (Annual Report, Registered Agent, Other), jurisdiction of formation, term of duration, initial filing date, principal and mailing addresses, annual-report due date, and the registered agent.

Single authoritative mode. All requests (both mode: "onboarding" and mode: "verification") resolve against the live FirstStop register. There is no non-authoritative fast path because no free open-data snapshot is available for North Dakota.

Company Identifiers

Query Identifiers

Identifier Type	Format	Example	Notes
SOS Control ID#	10 digits, zero-padded	`0000071213`	Primary identifier assigned by the North Dakota Secretary of State at filing time. Unique across all filing types.

The SOS Control ID# is zero-padded to exactly ten digits. Queries with the unpadded form (e.g. 71213 instead of 0000071213) are accepted. The API left-pads to 10 digits before forwarding to the register.

Identifiers in API Response

Identifier	Format	Example	Notes
`entityId`	10 digits, zero-padded	`0000071213`	SOS Control ID#, the public register identifier.
`ndInternalId`	Numeric string	`71213`	Portal-internal identifier used by the FirstStop system. Returned for transparency; not a public register identifier.

Search Capabilities

Search Type	Pattern	Example	Match Type	Expected Results
By Name	2-100 chars	`"Dakota Grain"`	Substring (case-insensitive)	Multiple results, capped at 50
By SOS Control ID#	10 digits (or un-padded form)	`0000071213`	Exact	Single match returned first (`matchType: id`)

Substring search. Name search matches anywhere in the legal name (case-insensitive). To narrow a large result set, use a longer or more specific query string. Results are capped at 50 matches.

Quirks & Gotchas

Quirk	Details
No officers or directors published	The North Dakota register does not publish officers, directors, members, organizers, or any other party list for any entity type. The only publicly disclosed contact is the registered agent (and for trade names, the registering owner). Both are returned as `otherKeyPersons`.
Registered agent may be a company	The registered agent row can be either an individual or a company. Foreign entities often use a Commercial Registered Agent; the role label reflects this.
No open-data snapshot	There is no free bulk extract for North Dakota. Every lookup hits the live register, so latency reflects a real-time network call to the SoS portal.
Three standing flags	The register tracks three separate standing values: Annual Report, Registered Agent, and Other. These appear in the Trade Register Extract but are not surfaced as separate Topograph datapoint fields.
Trade names and fictitious partnership names are indexed	The SOS Control ID# namespace is shared across business entities, trade names, fictitious partnership names, reserved names, and trademarks. A search by name or ID may return trade names alongside corporations and LLCs.
No shareholder or UBO register	North Dakota does not publish shareholders or beneficial owners for any entity type. The federal beneficial-ownership database is a separate restricted-access system.
No activity codes	The register does not collect NAICS, NACE, or ISIC codes.

Mappings

Legal Forms

Legal form is sourced from the Filing Type field on the FirstStop entity detail page. The vocabulary consists of 18 observed values across all entity types.

All observed North Dakota filing types

FirstStop Filing Type	Standardized	ISO 20275
Corporation - Business - Domestic	Corporation	`C3JQ`
Corporation - Business - Foreign	Corporation	`C3JQ`
Corporation - Nonprofit - Domestic	NonprofitOrganization	`4RCO`
Corporation - Nonprofit - Foreign	NonprofitOrganization	`4RCO`
Corporation - Professional - Domestic	Corporation	`C3JQ`
Corporation - Professional - Foreign	Corporation	`C3JQ`
Corporation - Farm/Ranch - In-State	Corporation	`C3JQ`
Limited Liability Company - Business - Domestic	LimitedLiabilityCompany	`JY0X`
Limited Liability Company - Business - Foreign	LimitedLiabilityCompany	`JY0X`
Limited Liability Company - Farm/Ranch - In-State	LimitedLiabilityCompany	`JY0X`
Limited Liability Company - Professional - Domestic	LimitedLiabilityCompany	`JY0X`
Cooperative Association - Domestic	Cooperative
Cooperative Association - Foreign	Cooperative
Cooperative - Mutual Aid	Cooperative
Insurance Company	Other
Trade Name	Other
Fictitious Partnership Name	Partnership	`T91T`
Reserved Name	Other

Company Status

FirstStop Status	Active
Active	Yes
Inactive - Voluntary	No
Inactive - Involuntary	No
Inactive - Expired	No
Inactive - Merged	No
Inactive - Consolidated	No
Inactive - Converted Out	No

For a complete, up-to-date list of standardized values, see the North Dakota pricing page.

Data Availability

Data Point	Available	Notes
Company name	Yes	Current legal name from the FirstStop register
Company status	Yes	Active or Inactive with reason (Voluntary, Involuntary, Expired, Merged, Consolidated, Converted Out)
Registration date	Yes	Initial filing date from the register
Legal address	Yes	Principal and mailing addresses (street, city, state, ZIP)
Legal form	Yes	FirstStop filing type with ISO 20275 mapping where available
Registered agent	Yes	Returned as `otherKeyPersons`; individual or company, with address
Trade name owner	Yes	Returned as `otherKeyPersons` for trade name filings only
Legal representatives	No	Officers, directors, and members are not published by the register
Activity codes	No	Not collected by the register
Shareholders	No	Not published
UBOs	No	No state beneficial-ownership register; federal system is restricted
Trade Register Extract	Yes	Included at no extra charge with every company data request: a printed PDF of the structured FirstStop record
Financial data	No	Not collected

Example API Responses

Search by Name

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

[
  {
    "id": "0000071213",
    "legalName": "DAKOTA GRAIN COMPANY, INC.",
    "countryCode": "US-ND",
    "matchReason": {
      "matchType": "default"
    },
    "address": {
      "region": "ND",
      "countryCode": "US"
    }
  }
]

Search by SOS Control ID#

curl -X POST "https://api.topograph.co/v2/search?country=US-ND&query=0000071213" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

[
  {
    "id": "0000071213",
    "legalName": "DAKOTA GRAIN COMPANY, INC.",
    "countryCode": "US-ND",
    "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-ND", "id": "0000071213", "dataPoints": ["company", "otherKeyPersons"], "mode": "verification"}'

{
  "company": {
    "id": "0000071213",
    "countryCode": "US-ND",
    "identifiers": {
      "entityId": "0000071213",
      "ndInternalId": "71213"
    },
    "legalName": "DAKOTA GRAIN COMPANY, INC.",
    "registrationDate": "2006-01-11",
    "status": {
      "localName": "Active",
      "active": true
    },
    "legalForm": {
      "localName": "Corporation - Business - Domestic",
      "standardized": "Corporation"
    },
    "legalAddress": {
      "addressLine1": "100 N MAIN ST",
      "city": "BISMARCK",
      "region": "ND",
      "postalCode": "58501",
      "countryCode": "US"
    }
  },
  "otherKeyPersons": [
    {
      "type": "INDIVIDUAL",
      "role": {
        "localName": "Registered Agent",
        "standardized": "RegisteredAgent"
      },
      "individual": {
        "name": {
          "fullName": "JOHN A PLACEHOLDER"
        },
        "residenceAddress": {
          "addressLine1": "100 N MAIN ST",
          "city": "BISMARCK",
          "region": "ND",
          "postalCode": "58501",
          "countryCode": "US"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

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North Dakota coverage, pricing, and sources

​Table of Contents

​Data Sources

​Company Identifiers

​Query Identifiers

​Identifiers in API Response

​Search Capabilities

​Quirks & Gotchas

​Mappings

​Legal Forms

​Company Status

​Data Availability

​Example API Responses

​Search by Name

​Search by SOS Control 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

Company Status

Data Availability

Example API Responses

Search by Name

Search by SOS Control ID#

Company Profile