# United States Department of Commerce

id: ent_us-department-of-commerce  
wikidata: Q503577  
kind: regulator  
timeline: /timelines/us-department-of-commerce.md  
page: /record/us-department-of-commerce  
same_as: https://asof.is/record/us-department-of-commerce (how to cite the id: /identifiers.md)  

U.S. federal executive department overseeing commerce

## Current state

What the record asserts: claims that held, valid by their sources or primary-sourced at confidence 0.7 or more. Unverified, disputed, retracted and review-marked claims are listed below, labelled, not here.

- [United States Department of Commerce](/record/us-department-of-commerce.md) | founded | 1913-03-04 | valid 1913-03-04 to present | conf 0.90 | valid | [clm_EF3BBD7A8EC3](/claim/clm_EF3BBD7A8EC3.md)
  sources: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q503577, https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/040.html, http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Department%20of%20Commerce
- [United States Department of Commerce](/record/us-department-of-commerce.md) | headquarters | Washington, D.C. | valid 1932-01-01 to present | conf 0.95 | valid | [clm_DF9113A975DF](/claim/clm_DF9113A975DF.md)
  sources: https://www.gsa.gov/real-estate/gsa-properties/visiting-public-buildings/herbert-c-hoover-federal-building/whats-inside/hoover-building-history, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q503577, https://web.archive.org/web/2023id_/https://www.commerce.gov/ofeq/hchb-info/history-herbert-c-hoover-building-hchb
- [United States Department of Commerce](/record/us-department-of-commerce.md) | subsidiary | United States Census Bureau | valid 1913-03-04 to present | conf 0.90 | valid | [clm_6145D0F65584](/claim/clm_6145D0F65584.md)
  sources: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q503577, https://www.census.gov/history/www/census_then_now/census_facilities/, https://www.census.gov/about/history/historical-censuses-and-surveys/program-references/executive-reports.html

## All claims

One claim per line, newest first. Superseded claims stay visible.

- [United States Department of Commerce](/record/us-department-of-commerce.md) | headquarters | Washington, D.C. | valid 1932-01-01 to present | conf 0.95 | valid | [clm_DF9113A975DF](/claim/clm_DF9113A975DF.md)
  sources: https://www.gsa.gov/real-estate/gsa-properties/visiting-public-buildings/herbert-c-hoover-federal-building/whats-inside/hoover-building-history, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q503577, https://web.archive.org/web/2023id_/https://www.commerce.gov/ofeq/hchb-info/history-herbert-c-hoover-building-hchb
- [United States Department of Commerce](/record/us-department-of-commerce.md) | subsidiary | United States Census Bureau | valid 1913-03-04 to present | conf 0.90 | valid | [clm_6145D0F65584](/claim/clm_6145D0F65584.md)
  sources: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q503577, https://www.census.gov/history/www/census_then_now/census_facilities/, https://www.census.gov/about/history/historical-censuses-and-surveys/program-references/executive-reports.html
- [United States Department of Commerce](/record/us-department-of-commerce.md) | founded | 1913-03-04 | valid 1913-03-04 to present | conf 0.90 | valid | [clm_EF3BBD7A8EC3](/claim/clm_EF3BBD7A8EC3.md)
  sources: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q503577, https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/040.html, http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Department%20of%20Commerce

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