Back in 2003, long before I started working here as news editor, I occasionally wrote SearchDay stories for Chris while still also compiling ResourceShelf. One of those SearchDay stories was titled: A Hearty Buffet of Look-Up Databases, and looked at the many and free online databases that Melissa Data made available. Melissa Data is a mailing company and offers these tools as a public service. Everything from Zip Codes within a certain radius to Income Tax stats to area codes in radius. Most of the databases listed in my 2003 article are still available. Ok, so after looking at that...

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