ERDDAP > Convert > FIPS County Codes
Convert a FIPS County Code to/from a County Name
This web page lets you convert a 5-digit, U.S. FIPS county code to/from a county name. For example, FIPS code "06053" converts to "CA, Monterey" (the state's postal abbreviation plus the county's name).Reset the form to the default values.
Or, bypass this web page and do conversions from within a computer program, script, or web page.
Or, view/download the entire FIPS county list in these file types:
.csv,
.htmlTable,
.itx,
.json,
.jsonlCSV1,
.jsonlCSV,
.jsonlKVP,
.mat,
.nc,
.nccsv,
.tsv, or
.xhtml.
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- Background -
NIST's Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 6-4 assigned
numbers to U.S. counties, county equivalents, states, and possessions.
On September 2, 2008, the standard was withdrawn by NIST, but we find that the list is
still useful for decoding older data that uses the FIPS county codes.
A reformatted version of the original information is available at
http://www.datypic.com/sc/niem31/t-fips_6-4_USCountyCodeSimpleType.html
- Exact Match -
This service requires exact matches. Entering a partial county code or
county name, or using a different case (upper or lower), will result in an error
error message.
- 5-Digit Codes -
This service works with the 5-digit version of the FIPS county codes.
The first two digits are the FIPS state code. The last three digits are the FIPS
county code within that state or possession.
- County Names -
The format for the county names isn't standardized.
Here, they are written as "STATE, County Name", where STATE is the 2-letter
postal abbreviation.
- States -
This service includes the state names in with the county names.
The last 3 digits of the state's "county" codes are 000. For example, 06000 = CA.
- County-Equivalent Entities -
This service includes county-equivalent entities from
U.S. protectorates and freely associated states originally in Appendix A and B of the
FIPS list.
The state-level entities are:
60000=AS=AMERICA SAMOA
64000=FM=FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA
66000=GU=GUAM
68000=MH=MARSHALL ISLANDS
69000=MP=NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS
70000=PW=PALAU
72000=PR=PUERTO RICO
74000=UM=U.S. MINOR OUTLYING ISLANDS
78000=VI=VIRGIN ISLANDS OF THE UNITED STATES
Want To Do FIPS County Conversions from within a Computer Program, Script, or Web Page?
If you change the extension of this web page's URL from .html to .txt, ERDDAP will respond with just the text result.- An example which converts a FIPS county code into a county name is
https://spraydata.ucsd.edu/erddap/convert/fipscounty.txt?code=06053
- An example which converts a county name into a FIPS county code is
https://spraydata.ucsd.edu/erddap/convert/fipscounty.txt?county=CA%2C%20Monterey