This data set provides common names and abbreviations for U.S. counties to enable merging with various data sets.
US_CountiesA data frame with 3104 observations and 8 variables.
| countystate | |
| proper county name and state name | state_name |
| proper state name | county_name |
| proper county name | county_fips |
| county FIPS | state_abbv |
| abbreviated state name | state_name_cap |
| capitalized state name | state_name_cap_nominate |
| capitalized state name, shortened (as in DW-NOMINATE data) | state_fips |
| state FIPS |