- North America
- Iowa
North America
Beta
Iowa
Company data from the Iowa business register, through the Topograph API.
Topograph reads Iowa Secretary of State, Business Services Division and returns the company profile, legal representatives and other key persons of Iowa companies through one API.
What comes back for each datapoint and document, as on the coverage matrix.
Requests run in prefill mode (fast) or verification mode (the authoritative register answer).
Datapoints
- Company profileYes
- Legal representativesYes
Comes back in Verify.
- Other key personsYes
Documents
- Register extractYes
- Articles of associationNo
- FinancialsNo
- UBO extractNo
- Iowa SoS Business Entity Summary (printed)
A company profile typically comes back from the register in 1 s in prefill mode and 6 s in verification mode.
These are typical observations, not a service-level commitment: set your timeouts well above them.
The registers this country’s data comes from. Secondary sources only enrich or check what the registers return.
Official Iowa business entity register maintained by the Business Services Division of the Iowa Secretary of State. Covers every domestic and foreign entity registered under Title XII of the Iowa Code: for-profit and nonprofit corporations (Chapter 490 and Chapter 504), limited liability companies (Chapter 489), limited partnerships and limited liability partnerships (Chapters 486A, 486B, 488), cooperative associations (Chapters 497-499), multiple-housing cooperatives (Chapter 499A), state-chartered banks (Chapter 524), savings & loan associations (Chapter 534), and insurance companies (Chapters 508-515). Each entity is assigned a six-digit corp_number with leading zeros preserved (e.g. 084726) that serves as the primary identifier across every register lookup. Topograph exposes two complementary integrations. First, the monthly open-data extract published at data.iowa.gov (~339k active entities), used for sub-second prefill lookups and the bulk pipeline. Second, the live business search portal at sos.iowa.gov/search/business, which covers every entity in the register (active and inactive), exposes authoritative status, the full officer roster (Name, role, Director flag, address), and serves the printable Trade Register Extract.
- GLEIF (Legal Entity Identifiers)Secondary
Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation – Legal Entity Identifier reference data
Request a company by its Iowa Business Entity Number as the id, with countryCode set to US-IA. Its format, validation rules and an example value are in the full reference.
The full reference covers how each datapoint is sourced and mapped, the vocabularies the API returns, the documents you can order and exact example responses. It is free with a Topograph account.
- Identifiers and formats2
- Search patterns2
- Quirks6
- Legal forms32
- Officer roles22
- Company statuses2
- Documents1
- Example responses5