Template:Infobox U.S. County/doc

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Infobox U.S. County is the standard infobox used for all county articles in the United States. There are other templates that are helpful for U.S. County Articles:

• 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 sample 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 -->
|founded title   =  <!-- optional. The word "Founded" displays if this is not declared. -->
|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            = 
|ex image        =  <!-- optional, add an extra image to the bottom of the infobox -->
|ex image size   =  <!-- defaults to 200px if not specified -->
|ex image cap    =  <!-- caption of the extra image --> 
}}

[edit] Microformat

The HTML mark up produced by this template includes an hCard microformat, which makes the place-name and location parsable by computers, either acting automatically to catalogue article across Wikipedia, or via a browser tool operated by a person, to (for example) add the subject to an address book. Within the hCard is a Geo microformat, which additionally makes the coordinates (latitude & longitude) parsable, 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:

Geo is produced by calling {{coord}}, and uses HTML classes:

Please do not rename or remove these classes.

When giving coordinates, please don't be overly precise.