Data downloads

The records Our Clarke has released, as files you can download, check and reuse.

What is here

Only released records are in these files. A record held back because the person may be living, and anything still under review, is not included. Each dataset lists what it covers and what it leaves out, and every file has a SHA-256 checksum, so a copy can be checked against the published one. The site's complete released record, in the form its own pages read it, is at collection.json.

Datasets are released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. Where the records come from someone else's compilation, credit them as the dataset's README asks. Each publication is dated in its filenames, and earlier publications are kept unchanged under snapshots. The whole list is also available as manifest.json.

Genealogy

Record-level lists for family and local historians. Each opens in a spreadsheet. CSV and XLSX, one file per dataset.

Green Hill Cemetery records

Burials and tombstones at Green Hill Cemetery in Berryville, as compiled by Donald R. and Mary L. Royston to May 6, 2021.

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8,799 released records of burials, tombstones and commemorative stones at Green Hill Cemetery, Berryville, Clarke County, Virginia, from the Royston compilation of tombstones, caretaker's journals and the Clarke County Historical Association's list of unmarked graves.

Not in
158 records of people who may be living (no death or burial recorded and a birth year of 1916 or later). No relationships, coordinates or corrections are added to what the compilation prints. Burials after the compilation's cutoff are not in it.

Effective date
May 6, 2021

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- CSV 1.9 MB
  SHA-256 5ed070e4aa222e4779bf5bc74c7eb1d15dd8fd9279b67ae55e95948508e7deef
- XLSX (spreadsheet) 1.3 MB
  SHA-256 18cce12c099e219488dbe8b41c9d6c98c8fc121ef61ce357adac9e2e41c4a69b
Version
1.0.0

Published
September 17, 2026

License
CC BY 4.0. Credit the compilers, Donald R. and Mary L. Royston, whenever these records are reused, in addition to the Our Clarke citation.

Cite as
Our Clarke. "Green Hill Cemetery records." Dataset, version 1.0.0, published 2026-09-17. Compiled by Donald R. and Mary L. Royston, as of May 6, 2021. https://ourclarke.com/data/#green-hill-cemetery. License: CC BY 4.0.

Documentation
README · Column schema · datapackage.json · manifest.json

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Green Hill Cemetery directory
Recipes

Every recipe card on Our Clarke: the 1986 White Post Village Cook Book and recipes contributed by Clarke cooks, with what each card withholds and why.

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All 251 released recipe cards of this dataset's two sources: 245 from the White Post Village Cook Book (1986) and 6 contributed to Our Clarke by Clarke cooks, each with its source page, yield, ingredients, directions, notes, rights basis and estimated macros.

Not in
No card of either source is left out. The Our Clarke recipes page also carries 95 cards this dataset does not: 70 from Clarke County Cooks, and 25 read from other publishers' web pages. Each of those sources keeps its own credit and rights, which Our Clarke's compilation license does not cover. 15 values on 15 cards are withheld in place (14 scan_debris, 1 headnote) and marked in the state columns with a note. Macros are estimates, and 210 cards carry no totals (154 partial, 56 withheld) with the reason in macros_json. Pages 70 and 71 of the book are missing from the scan.

Effective date
Invalid Date

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- CSV 348 KB
  SHA-256 58a3dbff62ba0d0fb40f357915e4a041af7438779aa071610a7f14811833177d
- XLSX (spreadsheet) 99 KB
  SHA-256 2c7eb04d34981c303967037b106ffc8e82a45872725d4624315a0c1118978ad8
Version
1.0.0

Published
September 17, 2026

License
CC BY 4.0. Credit the White Post Village Cook Book (1986) or the contributing cook, named in contributed_by, whenever a recipe is reused, in addition to the Our Clarke citation. Each recipe keeps its own rights basis, stated in license_note: the book is in copyright, and Our Clarke publishes its recipes as uncopyrightable lists of ingredients and simple directions (17 USC 102(b); Copyright Office Circular 33; Publications International v. Meredith, 7th Cir. 1996). The dataset license covers Our Clarke's compilation: its columns, states, notes and estimates.

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Our Clarke. "Recipes." Dataset, version 1.0.0, published 2026-09-17. Compiled by the Cookbook Committee; Circulation Service, Inc., Leawood, Kansas, 1986. With recipes contributed to Our Clarke by Clarke cooks. https://ourclarke.com/data/#wpvc-recipes. License: CC BY 4.0.

Documentation
README · Column schema · datapackage.json · manifest.json

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Recipes
Clarke County veterans roll

Every person on the Our Clarke roll of Clarke County veterans, from the colonial wars to Afghanistan, one row per person with every field the roll holds and the sources cited for it.

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2,312 people the Our Clarke roll of Clarke County veterans lists, from the colonial wars to Afghanistan, one row per person, with the sources behind each row.

Not in
2 rows the /veterans/ page does not show: people or families who asked not to be published, rows found not to be veterans, and rows whose only basis is a title. A veteran who may be living is listed without a birth year. No service numbers, addresses or other identifiers are included.

Effective date
October 12, 2026

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- CSV 1.7 MB
  SHA-256 cc09ccca97c5c6b6a99ebf0608a77e93478b239938f3653eee9cf07593473ef4
- XLSX (spreadsheet) 383 KB
  SHA-256 28caaa23da72f2d8ac87b1a7cfad962e8ed082ee74da0dca51c0bc1e7a0f3ac9
Version
1.0.0

Published
October 12, 2026

License
CC BY 4.0. Cite the sources named in each row's citations column when reusing a row, in addition to the Our Clarke citation.

Cite as
Our Clarke. "Clarke County veterans roll." Dataset, version 1.0.0, published 2026-10-12. Compiled by Our Clarke from the sources cited in each row. https://ourclarke.com/data/#clarke-veterans-roll. License: CC BY 4.0.

Documentation
README · Column schema · datapackage.json · manifest.json

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Roll of Clarke County veterans
Cemeteries of Clarke County records

Every grave, burial and named marker in Don and Mary Royston’s Cemeteries of Clarke County, Virginia (2005), from 77 burial places outside Green Hill, one row per record as the book prints it.

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3,534 graves, burials and named markers in 77 burial places in Clarke County, Virginia, outside Green Hill Cemetery, as Don and Mary Royston's Cemeteries of Clarke County, Virginia (2005) prints them: church cemeteries, family graveyards and church register lists. Every record in the book is included, 78 stones with a birth date and no death date among them.

Not in
51 single values the scan garbled are left blank and named in withheld_fields. Green Hill Cemetery is a separate dataset. The book's introduction, church histories, maps, surname index and page images are not included.

Effective date
October 16, 2026

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- CSV 830 KB
  SHA-256 b405eb84a8f3b8bbc79e92ce6d7a79b798a254faa48e5d4fb5c0a353f2e92495
- XLSX (spreadsheet) 384 KB
  SHA-256 80cac1da34dd0f98c2720b663fffdac7d848bd8d932012cc6731d74e090bdf1f
Version
1.0.0

Published
October 16, 2026

License
CC BY 4.0. Credit the compilers, Don and Mary Royston, and the book page whenever these records are reused, in addition to the Our Clarke citation.

Cite as
Our Clarke. "Cemeteries of Clarke County records." Dataset, version 1.0.0, published 2026-10-16. Compiled by Don and Mary Royston (2005). https://ourclarke.com/data/#clarke-cemeteries-royston. License: CC BY 4.0.

Documentation
README · Column schema · datapackage.json · manifest.json

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Cemeteries of Clarke County
Names on the petitions to divide Frederick County, 1831-1836

Every name line on the Library of Virginia’s thirty files of petitions and remonstrances for and against the new counties that became Clarke and Warren, as written on the scans, with its reading grade and the side its document took.

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6,972 name lines on 28 of the Library of Virginia's 30 files of petitions, remonstrances and papers on dividing Frederick County, 1831-1836: 5,917 signatures, 1,031 names in clerks' copies and 24 officials' signatures. They cover the petitions for the eastern county that became Clarke and for the Front Royal county that became Warren, and the remonstrances against both.

Not in
Names on sheets that are lost. Some 130 supporters' names in a Prince William County case filed with the papers. The text of the petitions, which the founding story quotes and cites.

Effective date
October 17, 2026

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- CSV 1.9 MB
  SHA-256 b2bc98ec2c90f28563a7706bdd8cd4f521d7475ff50ebc745a93166f44088253
- XLSX (spreadsheet) 700 KB
  SHA-256 fdadd43a2258ae3cbb6010947f0eb291382ce09f12ce49cc1a22a851ab269986
Version
1.0.0

Published
October 17, 2026

License
CC BY 4.0. Credit the Library of Virginia's Legislative Petitions Digital Collection and the file whenever these names are reused, in addition to the Our Clarke citation.

Cite as
Our Clarke. "Names on the petitions to divide Frederick County, 1831-1836." Dataset, version 1.0.0, published 2026-10-17. Library of Virginia. Transcribed from the scans by Our Clarke. https://ourclarke.com/data/#clarke-founding-petitions-1831-1836. License: CC BY 4.0.

Documentation
README · Column schema · datapackage.json · manifest.json

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How Clarke left Frederick

Topical

Subject datasets drawn from the released record. CSV with a README.

Fire company finances

What the volunteer fire and rescue companies of Clarke County reported on their annual IRS returns: revenue, expenses and year-end position, one row per company-year.

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43 company-years, fiscal 2011 to 2025, for the 3 surviving volunteer fire and rescue companies of Clarke County, Virginia, from their Form 990 and 990-EZ returns. 16 rows were read from the filed return; the rest come from ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer's summary of the IRS data.

Not in
2 company-years with no filing located in the sources checked, which carry no figures. Returns before fiscal 2011. Revenue and expense categories, gaming, fundraising events and county budget figures shown on the fire page. Figures for Shenandoah Farms Volunteer Fire Department, which closed in 2013, and for the county's own fire and rescue department.

Effective date
December 31, 2025

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- CSV 24 KB
  SHA-256 870325419c1c8387e905aa10308e79ed6f90d4731f73e99054d18b810f3f419d
Version
1.0.0

Published
September 17, 2026

License
CC BY 4.0. The returns are public records; each row cites its filing in source_url and source_citation. Where a row's figures come from ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, source_url names it.

Cite as
Our Clarke. "Fire company finances." Dataset, version 1.0.0, published 2026-09-17. From IRS Form 990 and 990-EZ filings. https://ourclarke.com/data/#fire-company-finances. License: CC BY 4.0.

Documentation
README · Column schema · datapackage.json · manifest.json

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Fire and rescue in Clarke County
Clarke County deaths by period, race, cause and age, 1853-1896

Counts of the deaths in Patricia B. Duncan’s transcription of the county death register: by period, race group and cause group, by age at death, and by year. Reported deaths, not rates.

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Counts of the 2,322 death entries in Patricia B. Duncan's transcription of the Clarke County, Virginia death register, 1853 to 1896, as released on Our Clarke at /deaths/: deaths by period, race group and cause group; by period, race group and age at death; and by year and race group.

Not in
The births entered on the register (1855 and 1856) and Duncan's cross-references. The entries on pages of Duncan's book, which our scan did not capture. No deaths are recorded for 1860, 1862, 1863, 1869 or 1895; the register has no 1895 and stops after 1896. No population figures, so no rates.

Effective date
December 31, 1896

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- CSV 17 KB
  SHA-256 62edfda008ee620d596c5b93bebb117e3b076368f8646858df562f9d4e519e8b
Version
1.0.0

Published
October 14, 2026

License
CC BY 4.0. Credit Patricia B. Duncan's transcription (2008) whenever these counts are reused, in addition to the Our Clarke citation. The facts of each entry are public records; the transcription is copyright 2008 Patricia B. Duncan.

Cite as
Our Clarke. "Clarke County deaths by period, race, cause and age, 1853-1896." Dataset, version 1.0.0, published 2026-10-14. Heritage Books, Inc., Westminster, Maryland, 2008; transcribed from the Library of Virginia microfilm of the county's death register. https://ourclarke.com/data/#clarke-deaths-1853-1896. License: CC BY 4.0.

Documentation
README · Column schema · datapackage.json · manifest.json

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Clarke County deaths, 1853–1896

Reuse

The released corpus and its per-source observations, for software and research reuse. JSONL bundle and entities CSV.

Source observations

How Our Clarke reads each source before reconciliation: per-source observations, not released claims.

Not yet published. The format is being reviewed; the file will be listed here when it is released.

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