1990 U.S. Gazetteer Files

This page provides links to 1990 Census gazetteer files for counties and ZIP codes for the 50 states and the District of Columbia and places and minor civil divisions (MCDs) for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Island Areas.

Note: We recommend reading the folowing FAQs before downloading any files from this page: 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. as well as the Census Bureau's position regarding U.S. Postal Service ZIP Code Information.

• Places (23789 records): 3378038 bytes
• MCDs (36289 records): 5298194 bytes
• Counties (3141 records): 446022 bytes
• Zips (29470 records): 1893118 bytes

Download compressed versions of:

• places.zip: 791470 bytes
• mcds.zip: 1253225 bytes
• counties.zip: 115326 bytes
• zips.zip: 687520 bytes

Record Layout 1990 Gazetteer Files
The source of the following record layout information is the 1990 Census Geographic Information Coding Scheme (GICS) with the exception of the ZIP Code file whose source is the 1990 Zip/Block Equivalence File:

• Place file record layout
• MCD file record layout
• County file record layout
• 1990 ZIP Code file record layout