- North America
- West Virginia
North America
Beta
West Virginia
Company data from the West Virginia business register, through the Topograph API.
Topograph reads West Virginia Secretary of State, Business Records and returns the company profile, legal representatives and other key persons of West Virginia 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
- Other key personsYes
Documents
- Register extractYes
- Articles of associationNo
- FinancialsNo
- UBO extractNo
- WV Secretary of State Business Organization Detail (printed)
A company profile typically comes back from the register in 2 s in prefill mode and 2 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 West Virginia business register maintained by the Secretary of State. The public Online Data Services search exposes legal name, organization number, organization type, charter type (domestic / foreign) and profit / non-profit class, effective and filing dates, status with termination reason, business purpose (a NAICS-based industry code with a full description), authorized shares, capital stock and par value, the four registered address types (principal office, designated office, notice-of-process / registered agent, and mailing), officers and directors with their addresses, registered trade names (DBAs), mergers, amendments, and annual-report filing history. Shareholders and beneficial owners are not collected at the state level.
- GLEIF (Legal Entity Identifiers)Secondary
Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation – Legal Entity Identifier reference data
Request a company by its WV Organization Number as the id, with countryCode set to US-WV. 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
- Quirks7
- Legal forms11
- Officer roles12
- Company statuses8
- Documents2
- Example responses4