NOAA US County and Zone Codes
It's often useful when working with NOAA information to know your County and Zone code numbers. The following maps will help you locate your zone.
The following contains all United States zones:
This file is an ASCII "dump" in pipe ("|") delimited form, of a "master" shapefile maintained by AWIPS GIS Map Group (AGMG) for the maintenance of County, Public Forecast Zones, CWA boundaries, and Time zones. Each record represents a single polygon within the master file. Multiple polygons may exist for the same zone/county that contain the same attributes, but the latitude and longitude fields will be different as they are the centroid of the polygon. No attempt has been made to remove these seemingly duplicate entries from this text file. In addition, the coastal and offshore marine zone shapefiles are also "dumped" to this file.
County-Public Forecast Zones Correlation file (CONUS/OCONUS)
File Specifications
Naming Convention: bp ddmmyy.dbx.
File Type: Text, delimited by pipes ("|")
Source: NWSI 10-507, NWSI 10-503, FIPS Pub 6-4
| Field name | Type | Width,Dec | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| STATE | character | 2 | [ss] State abbrev (US Postal Standard or Marine Zone two letter prefix) |
| ZONE | character | 3 | [zzz] Zone number |
| CWA | character | 3 | County Warning Area, from WSOM C-47 |
| NAME | character | 254 | Zone name, from WSOM C-11 |
| STATE_ZONE | character | 5 | [sszzz] For Public Zones, state+zone number For Marine Zones, complete zone id |
| COUNTYNAME | character | 24 | County name |
| FIPS | character | 5 | [ssccc] FIPS Code |
| TIME_ZONE | character | 2 | [tt] Time zone assignment (DOT) |
| FE_AREA | character | 2 | Geographic area of countyTD |
| LAT | numeric | 9,5 | Latitude of Centroid [decimal degrees] |
| LON | numeric | 10,5 | Longitude of Centroid [decimal degrees] |
