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United States National Archives by the Numbers (as of September 30, 2022):

 

(National Archives Building, Washington DC)

 

​Locations: 43 Facilities in 17 States, plus the District of Columbia

Number of Staff: 2,569

Size of permanent archival holdings:

 

13.5 billion pieces of Paper

More than 700,000 Artifacts

More than 448 million feet of Film, or about 85,028 miles (enough to circle the earth almost 3.5 times)

40 million Photographs

40 million Aerial Images

10 million Maps, Charts, and Architectural/ Engineering Drawings

835 terabytes of Electronic Records

New archival holdings: In 2019*, the National Archives accessioned 55,552 cubic feet of Analog Records and 9 terabytes of Electronic Records into the Permanent Archival Collection.

 

Digitized records in the National Archives Catalog: 205,039,338 pages

NARA digital images in the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA): 17.4 million

NARA images in Wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons: 1.16 million

Total number of views of NARA records on all Wiki platforms: 2.1 billion

 

Number of Public Research Rooms: 34

Number of Research Visits: 79,000 (2019)*; 4,200 (2022 YTD)

Number of items furnished in NARA Research Rooms: 229,000 (2019)*

Number of Off-Site Reference Requests fulfilled: 143,000 (2019)* 96,000 (2022 YTD)

Number of Requests for Veterans Records Fulfilled: 1.2 million (2019)* 874,000 (2022 YTD)

Number of Museum Visitors (2019)*: 3 million (1.1 million at the National Archives Museum and 1.9 million at the Presidential Libraries)

Number of Education and Public Program Attendees (DC): 21,058 (2019)* 235,522 (2022 YTD)

Number of Education and Public Program attendees (Presidential Libraries, New York, Kansas City): 588,476 (2019)* 662,237 (2022 YTD)

 

Federal Records Centers

26 million cubic feet of agency records, including:

1 million cubic feet of “accessioned-in-place” records stored for NARA

More than 329,000 cubic feet of cCassified Records

More than 49,000 cubic feet of courtesy storage for the U.S. House and Senate

2019* volume of work

 

More than 1.1 million cubic feet of New Materials shelved

More than 1.1 million cubic feet disposed

More than 1.2 million Official Military Personnel File Reference Requests (St. Louis)

More than 6.2 million IRS Requests completed

More than 1.4 million General Reference Requests completed

More than 31,000 cubic feet of Permanent Records transferred into NARA’s archival holdings

*2019 was the last full year at normal operations.

 

Budget: (2022 enacted) $695 million total: $477 million in appropriated**, plus $218 million in non-appropriated funds

(2023 request) $662 million total: $450 million in appropriated, plus $212 million in non-appropriated funds

Number of NARA external websites: 37. This includes Archives.gov, the National Archives Catalog, History Hub, Presidential Library websites, archived WhiteHouse.gov websites from prior administrations, and other various public websites.

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