FIPS county code
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The FIPS county code is a five-digit Federal Information Processing Standard
(FIPS) code (FIPS 6-4) which uniquely identifies counties and county equivalents in the United States
, certain U.S. possessions, and certain freely associated states. The first two digits are the FIPS state code
and the last three are the county code within the state or possession. On September 2, 2008, FIPS 6-4 was one of ten standards withdrawn by NIST as a Federal Information Processing Standard.
County FIPS codes in the United States are usually (with a few exceptions) in the same sequence as alphabetized county names within the state. They are usually (but not always) odd numbers, so that new or changed county names can be fit in their alphabetical sequence slot.
Federal Information Processing Standard
A Federal Information Processing Standard is a publicly announced standardization developed by the United States federal government for use in computer systems by all non-military government agencies and by government contractors, when properly invoked and tailored on a contract...
(FIPS) code (FIPS 6-4) which uniquely identifies counties and county equivalents in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, certain U.S. possessions, and certain freely associated states. The first two digits are the FIPS state code
FIPS state code
FIPS state codes were numeric and two-letter alphabetic codes defined in U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard Publication 5-2 to identify U.S. states and certain other associated areas...
and the last three are the county code within the state or possession. On September 2, 2008, FIPS 6-4 was one of ten standards withdrawn by NIST as a Federal Information Processing Standard.
County FIPS codes in the United States are usually (with a few exceptions) in the same sequence as alphabetized county names within the state. They are usually (but not always) odd numbers, so that new or changed county names can be fit in their alphabetical sequence slot.
External links
Lists of state and county FIPS codes for the United States can also be found at:- http://www.census.gov/popest/archives/files/90s-fips.txt
- http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/codes/state.html
- http://www.ers.usda.gov/Data/baseacres/Data/counties.xls, a Microsoft ExcelMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft Excel is a proprietary commercial spreadsheet application written and distributed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications...
spreadsheet (incomplete). - http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/co-codes/states.txt