Half the specialty-roaster picture came from two states: a 50-state web scan surfaced 27 roasters, 16 of them in Massachusetts and Mississippi
U.S. specialty coffee roasters — state-by-state web scan. All 50 states were queried independently as of 28 Aug 2026; the scan yielded 27 qualifying, source-linked roaster records across 13 states, with a founding year found for 6 records and founder names for 2. This is a best-effort, auditable first pass — no authoritative nationwide census exists, and a zero in a state means only that nothing was reliably extracted, not that no roasters exist there.
27
roaster records extracted
13
states with at least one record
Read the map as extraction coverage, not the market. Every plotted symbol sits at a state centroid — a "state-centroid fallback", not a verified street location — and 37 grey states are gaps in this scan, not coffee deserts. Treat the directory below as a first pass that needs enrichment, not "all roasters in America".
Where the scan found roasters
Circle area is the number of qualifying roasters extracted per state; circles sit on state centroids. Hover a state for the roasters behind the number.
roasters extracted in this scan
queried, nothing reliably extracted — coverage gap, not absence
symbol at state centroid, sized by count
Massachusetts accounts for 10 of the 27 records — all from a single scene write-up, which also supplied 5 of the 6 founding years found nationwide.
roastlocal.comAll 6 Mississippi records come from one coffee-festival exhibitor list — and they are the only records where a live company website was captured for every roaster.
jacksoncoffeefestival.comOnly 2 of 27 records name a founder: George Howell (George Howell Coffee, 2004) and Dean Cycon (Dean's Beans, 1993).
roastlocal.comThe oldest founding year captured anywhere is 1992 (Armeno Coffee Roasters); outside Massachusetts, only Coal Creek Coffee Company (1993) and 11th Lane Roastery (2017) carry a year.
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State coverage
The 13 states where the query returned at least one qualifying record, with the page each count came from.
| State | Roasters extracted | Source |
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Method: best-effort web extraction run 28 Aug 2026 — all 50 U.S. states queried independently for specialty coffee roasters. Dataset: 77 rows (27 source-linked roaster records plus 50 per-state summaries). A state's count measures qualifying companies reliably extracted from that state's web query, not the true number of roasters operating there. All map coordinates are state centroids ("state-centroid fallback"), never verified street locations. One captured website (Hermit Provisions) was a relative path and is omitted as unusable. Founding years found for 6 records, founder names for 2; unresolved cells are left blank.