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STATEFIP

State FIPS code

Description
STATEFIP reports the state in which the mortality event occurred, using the Federal Information Processing Standars (FIPS) coding scheme, which orders the states alphabetically.

Territories and West Virginia are coded to their future state equivalents.

Availability
1850, 1860, 1870, 1880
CodeLabel
01
Alabama
04
Arizona
05
Arkansas
06
California
08
Colorado
09
Connecticut
10
Delaware
11
District of Columbia
12
Florida
13
Georgia
16
Idaho
17
Illinois
18
Indiana
19
Iowa
20
Kansas
21
Kentucky
22
Louisiana
23
Maine
24
Maryland
25
Massachusetts
26
Michigan
27
Minnesota
28
Mississippi
29
Missouri
30
Montana
31
Nebraska
32
Nevada
33
New Hampshire
34
New Jersey
35
New Mexico
36
New York
37
North Carolina
38
North Dakota
39
Ohio
40
Oklahoma
41
Oregon
42
Pennsylvania
44
Rhode Island
45
South Carolina
46
South Dakota
47
Tennessee
48
Texas
49
Utah
50
Vermont
51
Virginia
53
Washington
54
West Virginia
55
Wisconsin
56
Wyoming
99
State not identified