{"id":192,"date":"2011-11-04T12:16:19","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T19:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sqldbpros.com\/?p=192"},"modified":"2011-11-04T12:33:59","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T19:33:59","slug":"free-zip-code-city-county-state-csv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/free-zip-code-city-county-state-csv\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Zip Code, City, County, State, CSV"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Free Download of the zip code CSV file available at the bottom of this post.<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>Why this is so hard to track down I don't know.\u00a0 We were looking for a comma<br \/>\ndelimited list which would map zip code to county since county is the lowest<br \/>\ngrain available in the out of the box SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) maps.\u00a0 There are plenty of vendors offering this data for a fee, but who wants to pay a fee for a proof of concept project?\u00a0 Not I.<!--more--> As an added bonus this free list has latitude and longitude coordinates as well.<\/p>\n<p>The attached file contains the following fields:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\"><p>Zip Code<\/p>\n<p>Latitude<\/p>\n<p>Longitude<\/p>\n<p>City<\/p>\n<p>State<\/p>\n<p>County<\/p>\n<p>Zip Class<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sample Data Format:<\/p>\n<p>\"91941\",\"+32.761050\",\"-116.998102\",\"LA MESA\",\"CA\",\"SAN DIEGO\",\"STANDARD\"<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Of note: We have not used the data in this file yet so I'm not sure if<br \/>\nthere are any issues with it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The original source of the file was the site below.\u00a0 In addition to providing this file they also have a Canadian Postal Code CSV and a few files mapping IP addresses to city or country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.populardata.com\/\">http:\/\/www.populardata.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Without further ado, here is the link to the compressed zip code file:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/zipcodes.zip\">zipcodes.zip<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free Download of the zip code CSV file available at the bottom of this post. Why this is so hard to track down I don't know.\u00a0 We were looking for a comma delimited list which would map zip code to county since county is the lowest grain available in the out of the box SQL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,3],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-businss-intelligence","category-scripts","tag-csv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sqldbpros.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}