County FIPS Codes

County Lookups have a FIPS code column. This code is a 4-5 digit number that is assigned for that county by the US Federal Government. Each state has a two digit code and each county has a three digit code. LegalServer stores both of those codes as a 4-5 digit code on the County table.

For example, Alabama has a FIPS code of 01 . Antauga County has a FIPS code of 001 . LegalServer would recognize and use a FIPS code of 01001 .

You can see a list of them on the Census code list under County and County Equivalent Entities. Look to the STATEFP and the COUNTYFP columns. Those are then combined in LegalServer.

When passing a FIPS code to LegalServer, if you are including the leading zero, send it as a string, otherwise it can be sent as either a string or an integer.

This is used for a number of our API integrations as well as the Area Median Income API calculations.