Can an IP Address be traced to a Geographical Location?

Yes and no. At best, you'll narrow it down to a city where the person/accessing entity's ISP is located. Some people's ISPs assign dynamic IP addresses which change at intervals, others are static IPs that don't change. None are tied to home address, though what a great stalking tool that would be, huh?

I'm sure law enforcement, especially at the Federal level, has ways of determining more than the general public but they also have actions they can perform (and records they can subpoena) that we don't.

May I ask what you may need this feature for? Usually, you can't get access to these tools without paying some money, but the authorities can use them for free. Carriers are required by law to help authorities track down criminals.

your IP address is registered to an address, if you know the time date and IP address you can in theory go to the ISP and say i need to know who this is. however you typically need a court order to get that information.

the best anyone outside of the ISP and law enforcement can really get is the city, state, and ISP.

The police can track IPs to exact locations. Its one way the police find kids who have run away from home then update their Facebook.

In most countries ISP's keep a log of which IP is given to which modem at what time, because they have to by law. By knowing the exact time and the IP address, an ISP should be able to tell you which modem had that IP. By having this information you could tell who owns this modem ( or which credentials it used to log on ), and thus get all the information you want.

Putting this out there for free, or even for money, seems to me as an invasion to the privacy of their customers. And that's generally not a good idea :)

You can try IP-Details.com to find Geographical location of IP address/domain. It also displays your current ip address and its location. Location information includes Country, Network, Address, ISP, Latitude, Longitude, etc. Visit the site for more information.

Mozilla's add-on can help you to some extent. But if you want to dig more then you can do it by yourself, as my recommendation's and your purpose of the question may clash.

I believe that all IP Addresses have an address associated with it because whenever I tether my phone to my computer it always says I'm in Oregon or something.

It depends on how accurate the data is. I have a web server that's being hosted in Los Angeles, but if you resolve the geolocation, it for some reason reports a Pennsylvania location.

Possibly the range of IP addresses being used were once owned by a company in Pennsylvania and the data was never revised.

Oddly enough as well, I used to live in texas but now live in California, and for a long time Google's attempt at locating me would default to the texas location. I never was able to find if there was some zip code or some prefence it was finding there on google maps.

I have come to the conclusion that because of the limitations of IP4, geolocation data can be inaccurate. If someone is trying to geolocate a phone, it's probably more accurate if it can coorolate that info with say, cell network usage or something like that. But IP4 address alone is unreliable.

yes yes and yes if a human puts in the geo data for that IP. I live 700 miles from where the ip BLOCK I am using is sent out.

ipv6 is easier to have the geodata encoded into the ip address and part of the ability of ipv6 is to have a 1:1 relationship of source:destination to not only provide the best 'path' but the physical location.

again that means someone maintaining a database that heh, is out of date.