US counties (Census cartographic boundaries)#

us-counties · theme boundaries · live

US counties and county equivalents from the Census Bureau.

import easysnowdata as esd

aoi = (-121.94, 46.72, -121.54, 46.99)   # Mount Rainier
counties_gdf = esd.boundaries.admin.counties(aoi)

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Sources#

source

provider

credentials

resolution

extent

temporal

latency

notes

us-census (default)

vector_http

none

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United States

yearly releases

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1:500k, 1:5m or 1:20m zipped shapefile, NAD83 reprojected to EPSG:4326

Where each route points#

us-census — US Census cartographic boundaries live

https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/GENZ<year>/shp/cb_<year>_us_county_<resolution>.zip

Variables#

variable

units

dtype

nodata

categorical

name

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no

iso3

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no

admin_level

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no

Provenance#

Licence · Public domain (US government data)

Cite the data as

U.S. Census Bureau (2025). Cartographic Boundary Files. https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series/geo/cartographic-boundary.html

Documentation

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