Northern Islands Municipality
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands · County seat: Pagan · Active county or equivalent
FIPS code 69085 is Northern Islands Municipality, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The state FIPS code for Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands is 69. This code is used in Census Bureau, BLS, EPA, HUD, and USDA federal datasets to identify this county.
How This FIPS Code Works
The 5-digit FIPS code 69085 is formed by combining the 2-digit state identifier 69 (Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands) with the 3-digit county identifier 085. Together they uniquely identify Northern Islands Municipality in every US federal dataset. No two counties share the same 5-digit FIPS code.
Federal Datasets Using Code 69085
FIPS code 69085 appears as the county identifier in the following federal datasets. Analysts joining data across these sources use this code as the common geographic key.
Using FIPS Code 69085 in Code
Common patterns for querying federal datasets by this county's FIPS code. The leading zeros are significant — always treat FIPS codes as strings, not integers.
import requests
url = "https://api.census.gov/data/2022/acs/acs5"
params = {
"get": "NAME,B19013_001E,B01003_001E",
"for": "county:085",
"in": "state:69",
"key": "YOUR_CENSUS_API_KEY",
}
r = requests.get(url, params=params)
data = r.json() # [[header...], [Northern Islands Municipality, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, income, pop, ...]-- 5-digit combined FIPS (state + county)
SELECT * FROM your_table WHERE county_fips = '69085';
-- Some datasets store state and county separately
SELECT * FROM your_table
WHERE state_fips = '69'
AND county_fips = '085';
-- ⚠ Never cast to integer — leading zeros are lost:
-- county_fips = 69085 is WRONG for this countylibrary(tidycensus)
get_acs(
geography = "county",
variables = c(income = "B19013_001E", pop = "B01003_001E"),
state = "69",
county = "085",
year = 2022
)