Re: [SLUG] Zip to County List

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Wed May 03 2006 - 15:02:33 EDT


steve szmidt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm putting together a table to lookup sales tax per county.
>
> What I'm missing is a zip code per county list. If you know specifically where
> that is available for free, or have it, please let me know.
>
> All I've found is creating a lot of extra work to extrapolate the data.
>
> I expected that with phone book type of data not being copyrightable, (Supreme
> Court ruling) it would be a cinch to find zip to county for free. Guess I'll
> make mine available when done.
>

I believe that you can get this information from USPS Zip Code
directories. They take up two volumes about as big as a huge phone book
each. But even if they still make those, it would involve manual data entry.

However, I decided to search for "county zip" on the usps.com site, and
found the following:

http://www.usps.com/ncsc/addressinfo/citystate_print.htm

Text from this page:

City State Product

City State Product is a comprehensive list of ZIP Codes with
corresponding city and county names. This file also contains other names
by which a Post Office may be known. City State Product can assist
mailers with city, state, and 5-digit ZIP validation; ZIP Code™ and
finance number assignment; and county code/name identification.

This product is available on cartridge, and CD-ROM and contains
approximately 100,000 records. Updates are issued monthly or bimonthly,
and technical guides are either shipped automatically with a
subscription or are available upon request.

HTH

Paul

-- 
Paul M. Foster

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