County Lookup

Look up which U.S. county contains a given coordinate pair. Returns the county name, state, and FIPS codes.

Endpoint

GEThttps://api.landmapmagic.com/api/county/from-coordinates

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
lat*	number	Latitude of the point to look up.
lng*	number	Longitude of the point to look up.

Response Attributes

Available Attributes

Attribute	Type	Description
county	string	County name (e.g. Story).
state	string	Full state name (e.g. Iowa).
county_fips	string	County FIPS code (e.g. 19169).
state_fips	string	State FIPS code (e.g. 19).

Code Examples

cURL

curl -G "https://api.landmapmagic.com/api/county/from-coordinates" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "lat=42.0308" \
  --data-urlencode "lng=-93.6319"

JavaScript

const params = new URLSearchParams({
  lat: "42.0308",
  lng: "-93.6319",
});

const response = await fetch(
  `https://api.landmapmagic.com/api/county/from-coordinates?${params}`,
  {
    headers: {
      Authorization: "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
    },
  }
);

const data = await response.json();
console.log(`${data.county}, ${data.state}`);

Python

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.landmapmagic.com/api/county/from-coordinates",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={"lat": 42.0308, "lng": -93.6319},
)

data = response.json()
print(f"{data['county']}, {data['state']} (FIPS: {data['county_fips']})")

Response

Example Response

{
  "county": "Story",
  "state": "Iowa",
  "county_fips": "19169",
  "state_fips": "19"
}

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