---
id: "us_location_id"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["agriculture"]
country: ["US"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 80
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/us_location_id"
---

# US animal location identifier (LID) (`us_location_id`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Identifier that a US State or Tribal animal health official assigns to a location where animals are kept or handled, as an alternative to the national premises identification number (us_premises_id) in the USDA APHIS animal disease traceability system. It starts with the State postal abbreviation or the Tribal code and has six or eight letters or digits in all.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Agriculture, livestock and food (agriculture)
- Countries: United States (US)
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^[A-Z]{2}[0-9A-Z]{4}(?:[0-9A-Z]{2})?$
```

## Examples

- `MN4321` — Six-character illustration from the APHIS ADT General Standards
- `CA654321` — Eight-character illustration from the APHIS ADT General Standards
- `MN43210` (invalid example) — Seven characters

## Translations

- ru: Идентификатор места содержания животных в США (LID): Идентификатор места содержания животных, который присваивает ветеринарная служба штата или племени в системе прослеживаемости USDA APHIS.

## Sources

- doc: <https://www.aphis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/adt-general-standards.pdf>

## Quality

Score 80/100. Missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), detector coverage.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/us_location_id.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/US/agriculture/us_location_id.yaml>