FIPS lookup Module

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What

The FIPS county code is a five-digit Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code (FIPS 6-4) which uniquely identifies counties and county equivalents in the United States, certain U.S. possessions, and certain freely associated states.

This module would answer questions like "What is the FIPS code for {county name} in {state}".
The API would return an object describing the FIPS entry. The human view would simply provide the code.

Why

While FIPS codes aren't necessarily useful to a normal human, an API that makes it easy to look one up will be useful for module authors to write question patterns that don't require manual FIPS entry.

NOTE: This will probably be better created as a developer resource than a CivOmega module.

How

The list of codes can be found here: https://www.census.gov/geo/reference/codes/files/national_county.txt

The API would take:

• A general location string
• A state
• A county