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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 3,222-row file is searchable in the browser. Open the county lookup. 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.