Template:Infobox U.S. County
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- USCensusPop - lists the population of the county per decade.
- Coord - a cool template that displays the coordinates of the county. Notes about this one:
- If a user enters the lat deg and long deg variables on this template, "coord" displays by default with "0" values for minutes.
- A user can enter all four variables if necessary: lat deg, lat min, long deg, long min.
- For more advanced syntax usage of the "coord" template, do not use latitude/longitude but manually add "coord" to the article using the alternative syntax avaiable within the coord template.
See the talk page to see how this template is rendered.
<!-- note that Map image is generated automatically: Map of STATE highlighting COUNTY.svg. --> {{Infobox U.S. County | county = <!-- the word "County" should appear here. Type "Washington County", not "Washington" --> | state = | seal = <!-- image of county seal --> | founded year = <!-- if you include a reference, the year's wikilink won't work so add the [[ ]] to the year --> | founded date = <!-- optional: syntax is: February 1 --> | seat wl = <!-- county seat; the WikiLink is created for you: "City" results in "[[City, State|City]]" --> | largest city wl = <!-- largest city; the WikiLink is created for you: "City" results in "[[City, State|City]]" --> | city type = <!-- optional: Put "Village" here and the page will say "Largest Village" (if "city" doesn't apply) --> | area_total_sq_mi = | area_total_km2 = | area_land_sq_mi = <!--ALL AREA fields: ENTER in RAW format only, i.e. 10000 and NOT 10,000--> | area_land_km2 = | area_water_sq_mi = <!-- ALL AREA fields: Units will convert automatically; km² to sq mi & vise versa--> | area_water_km2 = | area percentage = | lat deg = <!-- optional, enter degrees north --> | lat min = <!-- optional, enter minutes north --> | long deg = <!-- optional, enter degrees west; used with "latitude" to display COORD template --> | long min = <!-- optional, enter minutes west --> | pop = <!--NUMBERS ONLY, raw formated, i.e. 10000 and NOT 10,000--> | census yr = | census estimate yr = <!-- use for non-U.S. census years; this prevents red links to "2006 U.S. census", for example--> | density_sq_mi = <!--RAW format only --> | density_km2 = | time zone = <!-- Choices: Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific, Alaska, Hawaii; or enter something else and use old DST and UTC variables --> | footnotes = | web = | named for = | logo = | flag = }}
[change] Microformat
The HTML mark up created by this template includes an hCard microformat. This makes the place-name and location understandable by computers. The hCard includes information that also makes the coordinates (latitude & longitude) understandable, so that they can be, say, looked up on a map, or downloaded to a GPS unit. For more information about the use of microformats on Wikipedia, please see the microformat project.
hCard uses HTML classes including:
- "adr"
- "county-name"
- "fn"
- "label"
- "locality"
- "nickname"
- "note"
- "org"
- "region"
- "street-address"
- "vcard"
Geo is produced by calling {{coord}}, and uses HTML classes:
- "geo"
- "latitude"
- "longitude"
Please do not rename or remove these classes.
When giving coordinates, please do not be overly precise.