If you are looking to reference any .gov website, it's all listed here by US state. Enjoy http://www.therankdirectory.com/cgi-bin/search/dirs.cgi?lv=2&ct=Local_Stuff-Government
If you can get a backlink from a government site it's worth more than platinum. Google loves such authoritative backlinks.
Yeah the list does no good unless it shows which ones you can get backlinks from. I could go and find 1000000 gov links but i probably couldnt find but 1-2 that give you a link.
Do you realize that government sites are public domain? Do you realize that content on government sites is public domain? Do you have any idea how valuable all that public domain information could be if put into ebooks and sold? Who cares if you get a back link?
For the same reason they go to a convenience store and pay twice the price for something they can buy at a regular grocery store. For the same reason they go to McDonalds and pay $5 for a meal that can be prepared at home for half the price or less. Time is money. Time is the one commodity that is so finite that we cannot obtain more of it. We're each alotted a specific amount of time genetically. Yes, you could spend 7 hours doing hard research (if you knew how to do it or where to look) to obtain that free information online. Or you could shell out a quick $47 for an ebook that gives you that information. What you're doing in that case is paying someone $6.72 an hour to compile this information for you. If you can make more than $6.72 per hour or if your time is worth more than $6.72 an hour to you this is convenient. You can go enjoy your life and let someone else do the work.
So how are they working out? I use this database of information to help me find local government agencies when conducting projects in various states through out the US. Need to know where the permit office is in spokane? It's probably in that list. If not, a upper agency that can connect me is. Another great thing to this is to be able to monitor which government sites have the best statistics. You can use this for multiple puproses, but being able to see traffic, popularity, quality, and reach of each gov site is pretty cool! I'll be crawling for more in CA NY FL IL since those states typically have more agencies.