Talk:List of counties in Washington

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County Codes in the map?

How were the county codes in the map generated (like "WK" for Wahkiakum)? Is there a standard or an algorithm? Who did it? (I only looked cursorily in the history, but didn't see anything).

Tx Forkandwait (talk) 22:14, 29 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

One does have to wonder (even at this late date) if the two-letter codes have any official status. They are presented in the lead-off map as if they were official designations, but the table bears no mention of them. --Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 17:02, 12 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

They are not official as far as I can tell! Denelson83, how did you come up with these in Template:Washington County Labelled Map? CR for Clark seems the most unusual to me. I have replaced them with the full names. Reywas92^Talk 19:07, 12 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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No, no, no, no, no! These counties HAVE to be in alphabetical order! How is anyone supposed to find them? RickK | Talk 05:06, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

County codes and that's it?

It seems to me that a list of counties would be both more interesting and more useful if it had something more than the FIPS codes to offer about the counties. Such as... County seats; population at last census; area; highest point; largest city (if not same as county seat); date (or at least year) of creation/organization... --Haruo 05:21, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Some helpful information on U.S. county lists can be found at WP:COUNTYLISTS. Tompw (talk) (review) 16:32, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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