9213 total companies as of 8/22/2012
http://investing.businessweek.com/research/common/symbollookup/symbollookup.asp?region=US&letterIn=z&searchType=coname&x=0&y=0&lookuptype=public
The total number of U.S. mining companies totaled 125 in 2002, compared to 179 in 1997.
Sarbanes-Oxley is a US law governing public companies. Public companies must comply with this law.
You will have to be a little more specific. Are you talking about companies traded on the stock exchange? Companies with more than or less than 25 employees?
No. Only public companies that are being traded in US stock exchanges.
The US government, sometimes the job is contracted out to private companies paid by your taxes.
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There is over 126,500 hotel companies in the US. But these companies can have well over 100,000 buildings throughout the country. There is not a known number out there.
Legal or non legal (licensed)
it is a number
The total length of public roads in the US is approximately 4.1 million miles. The circumference of the Earth is about 24,901 miles. Dividing the total length of US public roads by the Earth's circumference gives us approximately 164.6. Therefore, US public roads would wrap around the Earth around 165 times.
There are several US companies that specialise in self storage units. Nationwide companies include US Storage Centers and Public Storage which both offer different sized units, well priced packages and secure locked facilities.