counties_sf is out of date
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The list of counties returned by counties_sf is now out-of-date.
counties_sf() %>%
filter((name == "Bedford" & state == "Virginia") | (name == "Petersburg" & state == "Alaska"))
# Simple feature collection with 3 features and 8 fields
# geometry type: MULTIPOLYGON
# dimension: XY
# bbox: xmin: -107.3392 ymin: 24.88892 xmax: -79.1833 ymax: 37.617
# epsg (SRID): 4326
# proj4string: +proj=longlat +datum=WGS84 +no_defs
# fips state_fips county_fips name lsad census_area state
# 1 51019 51 019 Bedford County 753.021 Virginia
# 2 51515 51 515 Bedford city 6.878 Virginia
# 3 02195 02 195 Petersburg CA 3281.982 Alaska
# iso_3166_2 geometry
# 1 VA MULTIPOLYGON (((-79.62613 3...
# 2 VA MULTIPOLYGON (((-79.5436 37...
# 3 AK MULTIPOLYGON (((-107.1118 2...
See this note, Petersburg, AK needs to have its lsad updated, but Bedford, VA needs to be merged.
Unfortunately the fixes would make this incompatible with the last decennial census, so I'm not sure what the best move is. I guess a year argument to the function call would be the safest, but would require a lot of engineering effort.
this is super helpful! #ty!
I'll figure out a way to work in the year argument but perhaps will shunt in a hacky "current" function just to make sure it's aligned correctly with the real world.
In addition to the changes noted by eamoncaddigan, two counties have been renamed and given new FIPS codes since the 2010 census (both in 2015).
# previously: fips 46113 Shannon County, SD
# now: fips 46102 Ogala Lakota County, SD
#
# previously: fips 02270 Wade Hampton Census Area, AK
# now: fips 02158 Kusilvak Census Area, AK