Timeline of the counties of Rhode Island
This is a list of the five counties
in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. Rhode Island has the second lowest number of counties of any U.S. state (only Delaware has fewer, with three counties).[1] Although Rhode Island is divided into counties, it does not have any local government at the county level.[2] Instead, local government is provided by the eight cities and thirty-one towns.[3]
The colony of Rhode Island was established in the 17th century, and was the first of the thirteen original American colonies to declare independence from British rule in 1776, signaling the start of the American Revolution. The counties were all established before the Declaration of Independence.[2]
The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code, which is used by the United States government to uniquely identify states and counties, is provided with each entry.[4] Rhode Island's code is 44, which when combined with any county code would be written as 44XXX. The FIPS code for each county links to census data for that county.
Alphabetical list
| County |
FIPS Code[5] | County Seat [6] |
Created [2] |
Origin [7] |
Etymology |
Population (2000) [8] |
Area [8] |
Map Template:County7 Template:County7 Template:County7 Template:County7 Template:County7 |
References
Rhode Island County Map
- ^ "How Many Counties are in Your State?". 2000. http://www.clickandlearn.com/documents2/Counties.htm. Retrieved 2007-07-08.
- ^ a b c National Association of Counties. "NACo - Find a county". http://www.naco.org/Template.cfm?Section=Find_a_County&Template=/cffiles/counties/state.cfm&state.cfm&statecode=RI. Retrieved 2007-04-26.
- ^ "Know Rhode Island". Rhode Island Office of the Secretary of State. http://www.sec.state.ri.us/library/riinfo/riinfo/knowrhode. Retrieved 2007-08-07.
- ^ "FIPS Publish 6-4". National Institute of Standards and Technology. http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/fip6-4.htm. Retrieved 2007-04-11.
- ^ "EPA County FIPS Code Listing". EPA. http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/codes/ri.html. Retrieved 2007-04-09.
- ^ "Rhode Island County Map with Administrative Cities". 2006. http://geology.com/county-map/rhode-island.shtml. Retrieved 2007-07-08.
- ^ "Rhode Island Counties and Towns". 2002-12-19. http://www.rootsweb.com/~rigenweb/counties.html. Retrieved 2007-07-08.
- ^ a b "Rhode Island QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau". State & County QuickFacts. http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/maps/rhode_island_map.html. Retrieved 2007-04-18.
| |||||||||||||||||
| |||||
| This page uses content from the English language Wikipedia. The original content was at List of counties in Rhode Island. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with this Familypedia wiki, the content of Wikipedia is available under the Creative Commons License. |