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# County Health Rankings (countyhealthrankings.org) — CSV download URL pattern

No API: the data ships as static files whose exact names aren't predictable from the
year alone — they're linked from a documentation page, not a fixed template, and carry
ad-hoc version suffixes:

```
curl -sS -L "https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/health-data/methodology-and-sources/data-documentation"
```
Observed (via `href="..."` scan of the 200 response): `analytic_data2025_v3.csv`,
`analytic_data2024.csv` (no suffix), `chr_trends_csv_2025.csv`, plus separate `.xlsx`
and PDF data-dictionary siblings for the same release — the `_v2`/`_v3` suffix is not
consistent year to year, so constructing next year's filename from this year's pattern
is a guess, not a derivation.

## Probe — a real file vs. a guessed nonexistent one

```
curl -sS -I "https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/sites/default/files/media/document/analytic_data2025_v3.csv"
curl -sS -D - -o /dev/null "https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/sites/default/files/media/document/analytic_data2099.csv"
```
Observed: the real file is `HTTP/2 200`, `content-type: application/octet-stream` (not
`text/csv`), `content-length: 13085361` (13 MB), `cache-control: max-age=31536000`,
`expires: Thu, 30 Sep 2027` — a genuine year-long edge cache. The guessed/missing file
is a Drupal `HTTP/2 404` HTML page carrying the classic already-expired sentinel
`expires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT` plus `x-drupal-cache: MISS`,
`x-generator: Drupal 10` — the same "hand-rolled epoch-adjacent expiry on a 404" pattern
this fleet has now seen on at least one other CMS-fronted government-adjacent site.

## Probe — real CSV header row

```
curl -sS -r 0-1500 "https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/sites/default/files/media/document/analytic_data2025_v3.csv"
```
Observed: first columns are `State FIPS Code,County FIPS Code,5-digit FIPS Code,State
Abbreviation,Name,Release Year,County Clustered...` followed by per-measure column
groups each repeated 7 times (overall + AIAN/Asian/Black/Hispanic/White/NHOPI/Two-or-
more-races breakdowns) — one measure like "Premature Death" alone contributes over 30
columns; the full header is wide enough that naive CSV tooling expecting a handful of
columns will choke before reaching row 2.

How observed: 2026-10-05T10:20:36Z–10:20:52Z, GET (curl 8, `-L` on the doc page,
`-I`/ranged GET on the CSVs, default UA throughout).

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