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First, an important note for everyone to remember:

A few Wikipedians have gotten together to make some suggestions about how we might organize data in articles about states, counties, cities and towns. These are only suggestions, things to give you focus and to get you going, and you shouldn't feel obligated in the least to follow them. But if you don't know what to write or where to begin, following the below guidelines may be helpful. Mainly, we just want you to write articles! Also, one of our top goals is to replace "is" with "was" when describing the population of county articles, as the census data is already dated when it is published, and also to replace 2010 and earlier census info and estimates with accurate, up-to-date, 2020 census data.

This WikiProject aims primarily to provide information on all of the U.S. states' counties, independent cities (Virginia), boroughs (Alaska), census areas (Alaska), and parishes (Louisiana). It also provides information on the analogous administration districts (if any) in the current U.S. Federal Territories (District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, etc.).

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Please place the following template on article talk pages related to U.S. counties, parishes or boroughs:

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U.S. counties articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 1 1 FL 21 1 22 FM 1 1 GA 1 8 9 B 3 3 11 98 115 C 1 12 30 330 373 Start 63 129 2,524 2,716 Stub 1 23 40 64 List 4 23 2 5 39 73 Category 196 196 Disambig 2 2 File 1 1 Project 17 17 Redirect 1 3 1 87 92 Template 118 118 Other 12 12 Assessed 6 52 80 199 434 3,041 3,812 Unassessed 2 2 Total 6 52 80 199 434 3,043 3,814 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 15,819 Ω = 4.83

WikiProject U.S. counties is one of the United States WikiProjects.

Please add your username to the list below and add ((User WP U.S. counties)) to your user page.

(In alphabetical order)

Active members

1. Adamant1 (talk · contribs)
2. Bkonrad (talk · contribs)
3. Buaidh (talk · contribs) – county statistics, statistical areas
4. Bruin2 (talk · contribs) - Oklahoma
5. Skim127 (talk · contribs) - Florida
6. CJK09 (talk · contribs) - California, Nevada
7. Coal town guy (talk · contribs) – West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, almost anywhere
8. Funandtrvl (talk · contribs)
9. GeorgeLouis (talk · contribs) California
10. HalfwayAffable (talk · contribs) - Utah, Alaska
11. HurricaneGonzalo (talk · contribs) - Indiana, Illinois, Georgia, Texas
12. Huwmanbeing (talk · contribs)
13. Indefatigable2 (talk · contribs) - New York
14. James Shelton32 (talk · contribs) - Virginia
15. Jdforrester (talk · contribs)
16. Juliancolton (talk · contribs)
17. Kestenbaum (talk · contribs)
18. kitschqueen (talk · contribs)
19. LaMamelle (talk · contribs) - Oregon
20. Lbr123 (talk · contribs)
21. Lowerunit (talk · contribs)
22. Ltwin (talk · contribs)
23. M.Jovellanos (talk · contribs)
24. MatthewJ00 (talk · contribs) - Most places, but mainly Virginia.
25. Mikeroetto (talk · contribs)
26. Mikhailov Kusserow (talk · contribs)
27. MilaPedia (talk · contribs) - Maryland - Howard County
28. Mjquinn id (talk · contribs) – Idaho, Colorado, South Dakota, Missouri, Illinois.
29. Omnedon (talk · contribs)
30. P64 (talk · contribs)
31. Presidentman (talk · contribs)
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33. Rfc1394 (talk · contribs)
34. Ruhrfisch (talk · contribs)
35. Spray787 (talk · contribs)
36. The Anome (talk · contribs)
37. Traveler7 (talk · contribs)
38. VinceLeibowitz (talk · contribs) - Texas
39. 90 (talk · contribs)
40. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk · contribs) - Virginia
41. DiggletheMoid (talk · contribs) - Indiana
42. G._Moore (talk · contribs) - North Carolina
43. Nfutvol (talk · contribs) - Tennessee
44. DiscoA340 (talk · contribs) - North and South Carolina
45. Keystone18 (talk · contribs)
46. MRN2electricboogaloo (talk · contribs)
47. Wildcat7176 (talk · contribs)

Inactive members

1. Blinutne (talk · contribs) - No edits since May 2009
2. Brien Clark (talk · contribs) - No edits since December 2009
3. ClairSamoht (talk · contribs) - No edits since August 2008
4. Dan Tromedlov (talk · contribs) - Two edits since June 2010
5. JoSePh (talk · contribs) - No edits since October 2006
6. Kotosb (talk · contribs) - One edit since August 2009
7. LouI (talk · contribs) - Two edits since October 2009
8. Osgoodelawyer (talk · contribs) - No edits since June 2006
9. Patricknoddy (talk · contribs) - No edits since June 2007
10. Ram-Man (talk · contribs) - No edits since June 2010
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14. VerruckteDan (talk · contribs) - Two edits since May 2010
15. Wapcaplet (talk · contribs) - No edits since March 2009
16. Wildcat156 (talk · contribs) - Two edits since December 2009
17. Zinc2005 (talk · contribs) - One edit since December 2010

There is an article called County (United States) that discusses U.S. Counties in general, as opposed to any particular county, and provides a list of U.S. counties. It also lists the analogous administration districts of the current U.S. Federal Territories, and explains the differences between the various types of "counties". Pages on the administrative districts of U.S. Federal Territories are to have the same format as U.S. counties, subject to appropriate variances.

Each state has a list of counties. There is a primary table, FIPS state code as well as a primary page List of Counties of the United States that both point to the list of every county. Each page also includes the footer which interconnects all of them to each other, U.S. Counties. It looks like this:

Further information on the state county lists can found at Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. counties/county lists.

A template article can be found at the bottom of this page. This section explains aspects of writing good county articles that the template doesn't address.

Naming the article

Each U.S. county is called by the common name of the state, e.g. Jackson County, Michigan. Where needed, a link to the county is placed on a more general entry page, e.g. Jackson contains links to Jackson County, Michigan, Jackson, Mississippi, Jackson, Michigan, and many more.

How the text should flow

The article should consist of a few short paragraphs that give an outline of the history, politics, etc.. of the county. If any section becomes too long, It should be split off into a separate article with more detail, leaving a brief summary behind. The beginning of the section should look like this example:

==Geography==
((main|Geography of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania))

Content suggestions

• Introduction
• History
  • Origin of the county's name
  • Circumstances of the county's establishment
  • Major historical events that occurred in county
• Geography
  • County seat -- see complete list of county seats at http://www.campbellslist.com/county_seats/select_county_seat.php
  • Physical geography (area, unique features)
  • Geographic center and bounds, polygonal outline (latitude and longitude points)
  • List of contiguous counties
• Demographics
  • County population
  • Racial/ethnic makeup
  • Religious makeup
• Law/Government
  • Legislative body
  • County Executive-- current, previous executives
  • County taxes
• Economy
  • Major industries/products
  • Largest employers
• Education
  • Colleges/Universities in county
• Recreation
  • Major parks and cultural institutions
  • Notable festivals and parades, with dates
  • Sporting teams in county
• Communities
  • Census-recognized cities and towns in the county
  • List of municipalities
  • List of townships or other subdivisions
  • List of unincorporated communities in the county
  • List of adjacent counties
  • County Name - direction to border/optional direction to county
  • Note border shared with other country, if exists
  • Link back to full list of counties for state
  • Start at northernmost point, and move clockwise
  • See Jefferson County, Washington for example
• Notable people
  • Notable people should be placed into appropriate city or town articles within the county; list here those where a specific location in unknown
• A link to a list of counties in that county's state

Categorization

Every county should be in at least one category, of the form "StateOrTerritoryName counties" (or "Alaska boroughs", "Alaska census areas", "Louisiana parishes").

The red and black U.S. county maps are generated from scanned public domain originals, which have then been modified by User:Wapcaplet and User:Jdforrester to indicate the counties and licensed under the GFDL. User:The Anome has uploaded these images using a bot. User:Ram-Man included links to these maps in all of the county articles.

Each of these county maps is credited thus: "Public domain Wikipedia:U.S. county map courtesy of The General Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin, modified to show counties. Released under GFDL."

The page Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Counties/checklist has pointers to all of the image filenames, whether they are uploaded yet or not.

The gold maps for California counties and grey maps for Nevada counties were done by User:Brion.

Don't forget to replace the "_" with the name of the article being converted. For the table, replace the Xs with the proper information.

((Infobox U.S. County)) (See example use in the [[Prince George's County, Maryland]] article.)

_ is located in the [[U.S. state]] of [[_]].

Introductory paragraph.

==History==
''Main article: [[History of _]]''

==Geography==
''Main article: [[Geography of _]]''

===Geographic features===
- orography
- weather
- soils
- hydrography
- protected areas

===Adjacent counties===
*Abc County  (north)
*Nop County  (northeast)
*Xyz County, across the Deep River (east)
*Mexico  (south)
*Pacific Ocean  (west)

(A [http://robla.net/2002/wikipedia/adjacentcounty.txt public domain list of adjacent counties for all 50 states] in wiki format is  available, but as of this writing has not been entered for all states.  See [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. counties|talk page]] for status)

==Demographics==
''Main article: [[Demographics of _]]''

==Economy==
''Main article: [[Economy of _]]''

==Government==
''Main article: [[Government of _]]''

==Cities and towns==

==Transportation==
===Major highways===

==Colleges and universities==
Or alternatively use:
==Education==
===Unified school districts===
===Colleges and universities===

==Miscellaneous topics(Sports teams and similar lists)==

==Notes and references==
See [[WP:CITE]] for more information about how to use this section.