Feature Catalog for the 2025 County and Equivalent for United States Cartographic Boundary File Counties and Equivalent Areas 2026-05 2026-05 eng; USA utf8 U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division 301-763-1128 301-763-4710 4600 Silver Hill Road, Stop 7400 Washington DC 20233-7400 United States geo.geography@census.gov pointOfContact cb_2025_us_county_20m.shp County and Equivalent Entities (national) false STATEFP Current state Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) code National Standard Codes (ANSI INCITS 38-2009), Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) - States/State Equivalents COUNTYFP Current county Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) code National Standard Codes (ANSI INCITS 31-2009), Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) - Counties/County Equivalents COUNTYNS Current county Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) code INCITS 446:2008 (Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)), Identifying Attributes for Named Physical and Cultural Geographic Features (Except Roads and Highways) of the United States, Its Territories, Outlying Areas, and Freely Associated Areas, and the Waters of the Same to the Limit of the Twelve-Mile Statutory Zone GEOIDFQ American FactFinder summary level code + geovariant code + '00US' + GEOID Fully Qualified GEOID GEOID County identifier; a concatenation of current state Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) code and county FIPS code The GEOID attribute is a concatenation of the state FIPS code followed by the county FIPS code. No spaces are allowed between the two codes. The state FIPS code is taken from "National Standard Codes (ANSI INCITS 38-2009), Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) - States". The county FIPS code is taken from "National Standard Codes (ANSI INCITS 31-2009), Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) - Counties/County Equivalents". NAME Current county name National Standard Codes (ANSI INCITS 31-2009), Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) - Counties/County Equivalents NAMELSAD Current name and the translated legal/statistical area description for county Current name and the translated legal/statistical area description for county STUSPS Current United States Postal Service state abbreviation Publication 28 - Postal Addressing Standards STATE_NAME Current State name National Standard Codes (ANSI INCITS 38-2009), Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) - States/State Equivalents LSAD Current legal/statistical area description code for county 00 Blank 03 City and Borough (suffix) 04 Borough (suffix) 05 Census Area (suffix) 06 County (suffix) 07 District (suffix) 10 Island (suffix) 12 Municipality (suffix) 13 Municipio (suffix) 15 Parish (suffix) 25 city (suffix) ALAND Current land area (square meters) 0 9,999,999,999,999 AWATER Current water area (square meters) 0 9,999,999,999,999