lookup.states: States and related areas dataset

In ejanalysis/proxistat: Create a Proximity Score in Each Census Unit, Based on Distances to Specified Points (as in EPA's EJScreen tool, for example)

States and related areas dataset

Description

This data set provides a variety of fields for US States, DC, PR, and Island Areas, including FIPS codes and area in square miles or square kilometers, for example, from the Census Bureau.

Format

A data.frame with 58 rows (States etc.) and 26 columns (variables like statename). See get.state.info for more details.

• [1,] "statename"

• [2,] "FIPS.ST"

• [3,] "ST"

• [4,] "ftpname"

• [5,] "REGION"

• [6,] "is.usa.plus.pr"

• [7,] "is.usa"

• [8,] "is.state"

• [9,] "is.contiguous.us"

• [10,] "is.island.areas"

• [11,] "area.sqmi"

• [12,] "area.sqkm"

• [13,] "landarea.sqmi"

• [14,] "landarea.sqkm"

• [15,] "waterarea.sqmi"

• [16,] "waterarea.sqkm"

• [17,] "inland.sqmi"

• [18,] "inland.sqkm"

• [19,] "coastal.sqmi"

• [20,] "coastal.sqkm"

• [21,] "greatlakes.sqmi"

• [22,] "greatlakes.sqkm"

• [23,] "territorial.sqmi"

• [24,] "territorial.sqkm"

• [25,] "lat"

• [26,] "lon"

Details

For information on FIPS codes, see http://www.census.gov/geo/reference/ansi.html, and also see https://www.census.gov/geo/reference/geoidentifiers.html

Regarding Island Areas see http://www.census.gov/geo/reference/gtc/gtc_island.html which states the following: Separate from the Island Areas is the term "U.S. Minor Outlying Islands." The Island Areas of the United States are American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (Northern Mariana Islands), and the United States Virgin Islands. The U.S. Minor Outlying Islands refers to certain small islands under U.S. jurisdiction in the Caribbean and Pacific: Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Islands, Navassa Island, Palmyra Atoll, and Wake Island. These areas usually are not part of standard data products.

Source

Derived from https://www.census.gov/geo/reference/state-area.html (for area data in square miles etc.) obtained 4/2015, and FIPS codes from Census Bureau, but other than the exact areas in square km, this table would be the same for Census 2020.

See Also

get.state.info in ejanalysis package (http://ejanalysis.github.io/ejanalysis/), and state.abb via data(state)

ejanalysis/proxistat documentation built on Jan. 1, 2025, 10:02 a.m.