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U.S. Census 2025 National Counties Gazetteer
Pipe-delimited listing of U.S. counties and equivalent entities for 2025 Census geography. FIPS identifiers, ANSI codes, names, land and water area, internal-point coordinates. No population or housing counts. Island Areas are not included.
- Publisher
- U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division
- Accessed
- 2026-08-17
- Format
- Pipe-delimited text inside a zip
- License
- U.S. Government Work / Public Domain (17 U.S.C. § 105)
- Source
- Gazetteer files · National counties zip · Record layout
- License URL
- USAGov public-domain label
License, short
Works of the United States Government are not eligible for U.S. copyright protection under 17 U.S.C. § 105. Cite the Census Bureau. Don’t imply endorsement. Census marks and logos are not public-domain trademarks. Area fields are statistical only, not legal land descriptions.
Sample
Eight counties, values unchanged, selected by GEOID. The full national file has 3,222 rows and stays at Census. Download the sample text.
| USPS | GEOID | NAME | ALAND_SQMI | AWATER_SQMI | INTPTLAT | INTPTLONG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL | 01001 | Autauga County | 594.455 | 9.914 | 32.532237 | -86.64644 |
| CA | 06037 | Los Angeles County | 4060.29 | 689.15 | 34.196398 | -118.261862 |
| IL | 17031 | Cook County | 944.93 | 689.71 | 41.894294 | -87.645455 |
| NY | 36061 | New York County | 22.658 | 11.201 | 40.776642 | -73.970187 |
| TN | 47037 | Davidson County | 503.521 | 21.753 | 36.169129 | -86.78479 |
| TX | 48201 | Harris County | 1707.103 | 69.935 | 29.857273 | -95.393037 |
| TX | 48453 | Travis County | 994.329 | 30.698 | 30.239513 | -97.69127 |
| WA | 53033 | King County | 2115.75 | 191.653 | 47.490552 | -121.833977 |
The sample text also keeps GEOIDFQ, ANSICODE, ALAND, and AWATER.
Fields
USPS— USPS state abbreviationGEOID— State FIPS + county FIPSGEOIDFQ— Fully qualified identifier for data.census.gov joinsANSICODE— ANSI codeNAME— County or equivalent nameALAND/AWATER— Land and water area, square metersALAND_SQMI/AWATER_SQMI— Same, square milesINTPTLAT/INTPTLONG— Internal-point latitude and longitude
Transform notes
- Downloaded the official national zip from www2.census.gov on 2026-08-17.
- Did not keep the full file here; only the 8-county sample.
- Sample rows written as UTF-8 pipe-delimited text with the original header. No values altered.
Citation
U.S. Census Bureau. 2025 Gazetteer Files, National Counties. https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2025_Gazetteer/2025_Gaz_counties_national.zip. Accessed 2026-08-17.