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May 16, 2008


FIPS County Lookup

"Help! I have a bunch of FIPS codes and I want to find the counties they designate."

Try the Census Bureau's FIPS County Lookup. You can use it in three ways:

The lookup also lets you download a simple text file showing the FIPS code for each county in the nation arranged by state. FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) codes are the official government identifiers for geographic areas such as counties, cities, metro areas, etc. More information. [PDF] or PDF denotes a file in Adobe’s Portable Document Format. To view the file, you will need the Adobe® Acrobat® Reader This link to a non-federal Web site does not imply endorsement of any particular product, company, or content. available free from Adobe.