FIPS county code - Citizendia

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. Federal Information Processing Standards ( FIPS) are publicly announced standards developed by the United States Federal government for use by all non-military A county is a Land area of Regional Government within a larger State. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the 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. FIPS state codes are two- digit numeric Codes and two- letter alphabetic codes that represent the 50 states, the District of Columbia

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.

The box below shows the list of counties for the U. S. which have County FIPS codes included in each list. Note that each county is only shown with the 3-digit code unique for that state; for the number to be unique throughout the United States, it requires it be a five digit number, i. e. the three digit code for that county in that state, prefixed with the two digit state number.

Lists of state and county FIPS codes for the United States can also be found at

http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/codes/state.html
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/fips/fips65/download.html
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Data/baseacres/Data/counties.xls, a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. In Computing, Microsoft Excel (full name Microsoft Office Excel) consists of a proprietary Spreadsheet -application written and distributed