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FIPS - Get county or state names from county or state FIPS codes

Source: R/FIPS_FUNCTIONS.R
fips2name.Rd

FIPS - Get county or state names from county or state FIPS codes

Usage

fips2name(fips, ...)

Arguments

fips

vector of US Census FIPS codes for

  • States (2 digits once any required leading zeroes are included)

  • Counties (5)

  • City/town/CDP (7)

  • Tracts (11)

  • Blockgroups (12) Can be string or numeric, with or without leading zeroes.

...

passed to fips2countyname() to control whether it appends something like , NY or , New York after county name

Value

vector of state and/or county names, where county names optionally have comma and 2-character abbreviation or full state name.

Details

This reports the name of the census unit specified by the FIPS code.

Other functions can instead report the name or code of the enclosing (parent, surrounding) unit, such as the State or County that each fips is located within.

See also

fips_counties_from_countyname()

Examples

fips2name(fips_counties_from_statename("Delaware"))
cfips = fips_counties_from_state_abbrev(c("RI", "DE"))
fips2name(cfips)
fips2name("10001")

mixfips = c(testinput_fips_blockgroups[1], testinput_fips_tracts[1],
            testinput_fips_cities[1], testinput_fips_counties[1],
            testinput_fips_states[2])
data.frame(mixfips,
           sitename = fips2name(mixfips),
           stfips = fips2state_fips(mixfips),
           ST = fips2state_abbrev(mixfips),
           state = fips2statename(mixfips) )

name2fips("Alaska")
name2fips("NY")
name2fips("Kings County, NY")
name2fips("Minneapolis, MN")

name2fips("Anchorage, AK") # not found
name2fips("Anchorage, AK", usegrep = T) # finds the city
name2fips("Anchorage municipality, AK") # finds the county of same name, not city