Washington State Counties

data.wa.gov | Last Updated 19 Sep 2023

This dataset contains FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard), GNIS (Geographic Name Information System common) codes for identifying Washington state counties. This is an official list from OFM (Office of Financial Management).

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This dataset has the following 8 columns:

Column NameAPI Column NameData TypeDescriptionSample Values
COUNTY NAMEcounty_nametextName of the County
COUNTY FIPS CODEcounty_fips_codetextFederal Information Processing Standard code for WA State Counties
STATE COUNTY FIPS CODEstate_county_fips_codetextFederal Information Processing Standard code for WA State Counties along with the state FIPS code.
COUNTY ORDER NUMBERcounty_order_numbertextNumeric code for Washington counties based on alphabetical order
GNIS CODEgnis_codetextGeographic Name Information System codes for WA State Counties (Note: GNIS codes are maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/download_data.htm)
GNIS TIGER FORMAT CODEgnis_tiger_format_codetextGeographic ID for TIGER/LINE shapefiles
GEOID_TIGER CODEgeoid_tiger_codetextGeographic ID for TIGER/LINE shapefiles
GEOID_AFF CODEgeoid_aff_codetextGeographic ID for American FactFinder