Template:Countyrow/doc

This creates an entry in a table of counties in the United States. Features:

Normal usage
 

Required parameters

 * is the name of the county without the word "County" as used in the link, e.g. Los Angeles County, California or Arlington County, Virginia you would use Name=Los Angeles or Name=Arlington etc.
 * is the two-digit FIPS state code of the county's state, e.g. N=04 for Arizona, N=10 for Delaware, etc. The name of the state will be composed from this number.
 * is the three-digit fips county code for that county, e.g. N=001 or N=037 etc.
 * is the county seat. The state's name is included automatically in the wikilink. Can be replaced with  parameter (see below)
 * is the population of the county. This must be given as a raw number without any commas, as the etmplate formats this value using the nts template.
 * is the total area of the county:
 * If this is a raw number, then the template will assume its the area in square miles, format it with nts, and also give the area in square kilometers.
 * If this isn't a raw number, then the value is displayed unaltered
 * A map is automically generated, using the information from the parameters given, with a size of 150px. See also  and   paramets below.

Optional parameters

 * Normally, the county link is of the form . If non-empty, then link becomes.
 * results in no addition being appended to the county name. (e.g. for City and County of Honolulu).
 * is used when a county doesn't have one seat. The value of this parameter is displayed instead. (For example, a note about the lack of seat, or the details of multiple seats)
 * ...  up to six columsn of additional information can be included. Convention is to include (in the following order):
 * The county's licence plate code (where applicable)
 * County's creation date/year
 * The county's origin (which counties it was formed out of)
 * The etymology of the county name
 * is the name of the image to used for the county map when the autmatically generated version doesn't work. The  prefix must not be included. Default size is 150px.
 * is the alt text for the map, for visually impaired readers; it is used both for automatically generated maps and for explicitly specified maps. Please see WP:ALT for more about alt text. The default alt text is Map of state highlighting {county name}.
 * is used when 150px produces a map that is too big. Example:
 * results in the state's name being appended to the county name, and the full FIPS code for the county being displayed (i.e. including state two digit code).