U.S. County boundaries (1:5 mi scale, bbox and wkt)

U.S. County boundaries data downloaded with tigris::counties.

Usage

us_counties

Format

A data frame with 3220 rows and 7 variables:

name

County name (tidycensus)

name_short

County name without state (tigris)

geoid

County GeoID (labelled)

abb_state

State abbreviation (USPS)

est_pop

Estimated county population (B01001_001), American Community Survey 5 year, 2015-2019

countyfp

County FIPS

statefp

State FIPS

bbox

Bounding box

wkt

Well known text (labelled)

Details

The geoid and wkt columns are labelled with a combination of an abbreviated county name and state abbreviation in snake case. Population estimates (est_pop) are not included for county equivalents in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa.