Obtaining FIPS County Numbers

Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) county numbers are numbers that identify each county in a state. Note that these numbers are only unique at the state level, not the national level. For more information, see http://www.census.gov.

Note: FIPS county numbers are available for U.S. addresses only.

To obtain FIPS county numbers, select the Include postal information check box on the Output Data Options tab. This will return a variety of data about the address, including FIPS county numbers. For information on the specific data that this option will return, see Postal Data Output.

Table 1. FIPS County Number Output

Field Name

Description

USFIPSCountyNumber

FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) county number