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STATEFIP

State FIPS code

Description
STATEFIP reports the state in which the slave holding was located using the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) coding scheme, which orders the states alphabetically.

Territories and West Virginia are coded to their future state equivalents.
Code
Label
01
Alabama
05
Arkansas
10
Delaware
11
District of Columbia
12
Florida
13
Georgia
21
Kentucky
22
Louisiana
24
Maryland
28
Mississippi
29
Missouri
34
New Jersey
37
North Carolina
45
South Carolina
47
Tennessee
48
Texas
49
Utah
51
Virginia
54
West Virginia