# Barnes & Noble Store Locations — U.S. (50 states + DC) location dataset

All 755 locations in U.S. (50 states + DC), as one CSV: 54 fields per record, 51 states, file built October 20, 2026. $19 one-time, with up to 10 real rows free before you buy.

Canonical URL: https://locationlists.com/data/barnes-and-noble-store-locations

755 Barnes & Noble stores in 50 states and the District of Columbia, read on 20 October 2026 from Barnes & Noble's own store finder: 727 open and 28 opening between 21 October 2026 and 31 March 2027, each with its open date. California has 89, Texas 65, Florida 50, New York 48 and Virginia 32. Each row has the store number, the store's own mailbox (crm followed by the store number, at bn.com), the shopping center and street, phone (755 rows), map point, hours by day, open date, whether the store has a B&N Cafe (606 do), sells toys (662), vinyl (510) or used books (4), the store's description, time zone and its Facebook, X and Instagram pages. Barnes & Noble is privately held and publishes no store total. In December 2025 it said it would open 60 stores in 2026. 36 of the open stores here opened this year.

## The figures

- Records: 755 locations
- States: 51
- Coverage: U.S. (50 states + DC)
- Fields: 54
- Price: $19 one-time, CSV download, commercial license (https://locationlists.com/license)
- Snapshot built on October 20, 2026. Not rebuilt on a schedule.
- File last modified: 2026-10-20

The file has all 755 locations across 51 states in one download. Building the same list by searching one area at a time tends to miss places, and a missed place looks like a gap in coverage that is not really there.

## Fields

- `name`: Chain name (e.g. Barnes & Noble)
- `brand`: The brand (e.g. Barnes & Noble)
- `parentCompany`: The company that owns the chain (e.g. Barnes & Noble, Inc.)
- `storeNumber`: Barnes & Noble's store number (e.g. 2869)
- `storeName`: The store's name on Barnes & Noble's store finder (e.g. Valley Forge)
- `shoppingCenter`: The shopping center or building the store is in, where the finder names one (e.g. Valley Fair)
- `address`: Street address (e.g. 150 West Swedesford Road)
- `city`: City (e.g. Devon)
- `state`: State code (e.g. PA)
- `zip`: ZIP code (e.g. 19333)
- `country`: Country code (US)
- `phone`: Store phone (e.g. (610) 695-6600)
- `storeEmail`: The store's mailbox: crm followed by the store number at bn.com, the address on Barnes & Noble's public store listings (e.g. crm2869@bn.com)
- `latitude`: Latitude of the store's map point (e.g. 40.070822)
- `longitude`: Longitude of the store's map point (e.g. -75.438632)
- `hours`: Store hours as the finder prints them (e.g. Sun 10-8, Mon-Sat 9-9)
- `condensedHours`: Store hours grouped by day range (e.g. Mon – Sat 9 – 9; Sunday 10 – 8)
- `hoursMonday`: Monday open and close times as published, no am/pm (e.g. 9:00-9:00)
- `hoursTuesday`: Tuesday open and close times as published (e.g. 9:00-9:00)
- `hoursWednesday`: Wednesday open and close times as published (e.g. 9:00-9:00)
- `hoursThursday`: Thursday open and close times as published (e.g. 9:00-9:00)
- `hoursFriday`: Friday open and close times as published (e.g. 9:00-9:00)
- `hoursSaturday`: Saturday open and close times as published (e.g. 9:00-9:00)
- `hoursSunday`: Sunday open and close times as published (e.g. 10:00-8:00)
- `openDate`: The day the store opened, or will open (e.g. 1998-05-27)
- `status`: Open, or Coming soon when the open date is after the build date (e.g. Open)
- `hasCafe`: true when the store has a B&N Cafe (e.g. true)
- `sellsToys`: true when the store carries toys and games (e.g. true)
- `sellsVinyl`: true when the store carries vinyl records (e.g. true)
- `sellsUsedBooks`: true when the store sells used books (e.g. false)
- `description`: The store's own description on the finder (e.g. Located just south of the King of Prussia Mall, Barnes & Noble Valley Forge features two floors...)
- `eventsListed`: How many events the store lists on the finder (e.g. 0)
- `timeZone`: Time zone (e.g. Eastern)
- `facebookLink`: The store's Facebook page (e.g. https://www.facebook.com/BNValleyForgePA)
- `twitterLink`: The store's X (Twitter) page (e.g. https://twitter.com/BNBuzz)
- `instagramLink`: The store's Instagram page (e.g. https://www.instagram.com/bnvalleyforge/)
- `website`: The store's page on Barnes & Noble's store finder (e.g. https://stores.barnesandnoble.com/store/2869)
- `electronicsInd`: Electronics flag, as the finder publishes it (e.g. false)
- `discoveryInd`: Discovery flag, as the finder publishes it (e.g. false)
- `source`: The source the row was read from (e.g. Barnes & Noble store finder (stores.barnesandnoble.com))
- `sourceId`: The store's id in that source (e.g. 2869)
- `sourceUrl`: Where the row was read (e.g. https://stores.barnesandnoble.com/store/2869)
- `directionsUrl`: Google Maps directions link to the address (e.g. https://www.google.com/maps/dir/?api=1&destination=150%20West%20Swedesford%20Road...)
- `naicsCode`: NAICS code (e.g. 459210)
- `naicsTitle`: NAICS title (e.g. Book retailers and news dealers)
- `sicCode`: SIC code (e.g. 5942)
- `sicTitle`: SIC title (e.g. Book Stores)
- `updatedDate`: Date the row was built (e.g. 2026-10-20)
- `trendShopInd`: Trend shop flag, as the finder publishes it (e.g. true)
- `geo_precision`: How the coordinates were arrived at: the source's own map point, or a geocode of the address, ZIP centre or city centre (e.g. source)
- `county`: County name (e.g. Chester County)
- `county_fips`: Five-digit county FIPS code (e.g. 42029)
- `county_note`: Set when the ZIP code spans more than one county: which county the row was placed in (e.g. ZIP 30092 spans 2 counties; assigned to the county...)
- `address_quality`: How complete the street address is: complete, no_house_number, po_box, missing_city_or_zip or missing (e.g. complete)

In the header but under 1% filled, so not in this release: address2, restaurantPhone, restaurantInd, printBook.

## What we did to this data

Added the county to 755 listings, flagged 3 incomplete addresses and measured 755 rows. Rebuilt October 20, 2026 from stores.barnesandnoble.com.

## How complete the key fields are

phone 99%, website 100%, street address 100%, city 100%, state 100%, ZIP code 100%, latitude 100%, longitude 100%. 52 of 58 columns are filled on at least half the rows.

## Ask this list a question with a link

No connector and no account; each link answers with the matching count, preview rows and the price for just that part.

- [Only California, the state with the most](https://locationlists.com/find?dataset=barnes-and-noble-store-locations&state=CA)
- [Within 25 miles of New York, NY, the busiest area](https://locationlists.com/find?dataset=barnes-and-noble-store-locations&near=New+York+NY&radius=25)
- [Within a 30-minute drive of New York, NY](https://locationlists.com/find?dataset=barnes-and-noble-store-locations&near=New+York+NY&drive=30)
- [Only rows where hasCafe is true](https://locationlists.com/find?dataset=barnes-and-noble-store-locations&where=hasCafe%3Aeq%3Atrue)
- [Every Specialty Retail list combined, within 25 miles of New York, NY](https://locationlists.com/find?category=specialty-retail&near=New+York+NY&radius=25)
- [Each one's nearest Dick's Sporting Goods Locations, in California, with miles](https://locationlists.com/find?dataset=barnes-and-noble-store-locations&state=CA&relate=nearest&k=1&b.dataset=dicks-sporting-goods-stores&b.state=CA)
- [The whole list: add a city, state, ZIP code or distance](https://locationlists.com/find?dataset=barnes-and-noble-store-locations)

## The same dataset, for machines

- Record as JSON: https://locationlists.com/data/barnes-and-noble-store-locations/dataset.json
- Free sample, up to 10 real rows: https://locationlists.com/data/barnes-and-noble-store-locations/sample.csv or https://locationlists.com/data/barnes-and-noble-store-locations/sample.json
- Buy link (opens Stripe Checkout): https://locationlists.com/data/barnes-and-noble-store-locations/buy

## Questions

### How does the count compare with Barnes & Noble's own figure?

Barnes & Noble is a private company and publishes no store count. This list is every store its own store finder lists on 20 October 2026: 727 open and 28 with a future open date. Campus bookstores run by Barnes & Noble College are a separate company and are not on the finder or in this list.

### Where does the store email come from?

Each Barnes & Noble store has a mailbox named crm followed by its store number, at bn.com. Barnes & Noble's public store listings carry that address for about half the stores. Every one of them matched the store's number. The list applies the same pattern to every store.

### How current is it?

Snapshot built on October 20, 2026. It is a one-time snapshot and is not rebuilt on a schedule.

### How is this data cleaned?

Every rebuild runs the same steps and counts what each one changed. For the current file, rebuilt October 20, 2026 from stores.barnesandnoble.com: Merged 0 duplicate listings that had the same business name, street address and ZIP code, keeping every filled-in detail from both (October 20, 2026). Unified 0 city names written more than one way within the same ZIP code (for example with and without a space or an abbreviation) to the US Census Bureau spelling (October 20, 2026). Corrected 0 misspelled city names to the US Census Bureau place name for their ZIP code (October 20, 2026). Added map coordinates to 0 listings that had none, from the US Census Bureau address geocoder or, where the street address could not be matched, the centre of the ZIP code (October 20, 2026). Set the county and its federal county code on 755 listings, matched to the US Census Bureau county list from the county the source records, the listing's map point, or its ZIP code area (October 20, 2026). Checked every map point against the state in its address and re-placed 0 points that fell outside that state (October 20, 2026). Flagged 3 addresses that are incomplete, a PO box, or missing a house number, in an address quality column (October 20, 2026). Checked that the row count, state count and field completeness published for this file were measured from the file itself (October 20, 2026).

### Isn't this free on stores.barnesandnoble.com?

The underlying records are public on stores.barnesandnoble.com. What you pay for is the work between that public release and this file: added the county to 755 listings, flagged 3 incomplete addresses and measured 755 rows. The current file was rebuilt October 20, 2026 from stores.barnesandnoble.com. Doing it yourself means downloading the full release, repeating each of those steps, and repeating them again every time the source updates.

### How complete is each field?

Measured on every row of the current file, the share of rows that carry each key field: phone 99%, website 100%, street address 100%, city 100%, state 100%, ZIP code 100%, latitude 100%, longitude 100%. 52 of 58 columns are filled on at least half the rows.