Template:Infobox U.S. County/doc

{{Infobox U.S. County}} is the standard infobox used for all county articles in the United States.

Other templates that are helpful for U.S. County articles:

• Historical populations - used to list the population of the county per decade.

Usage

This blank template includes some optional parameters that must be omitted if not used (will not work properly if left blank), plus some older parameters that still work but have been replaced by newer parameter names. See the parameter documentation below for more details.

The parameters are listed in the order displayed by the infobox.

{{Infobox U.S. County | seal = | seal size = | county = | boundary_map = | county_map = | state = | state_map = | latd = | longd = | founded title = | founded year = | founded date = | parent county = | motto = | seat = | seat wl = | building image = | building image size = | building image cap = | building address = | web = | named for = | named for image = | named for image size = | flag = | flag size = | logo = | logo size = | ex image = | ex image size = | ex image cap = | adoption_sign = | footnotes = }}

Parameters

The parameters below are listed in the order displayed by the infobox.

Name

These parameters specify the name of the county and state and are displayed in the infobox title as "County, State" (IMPORTANT: do not WikiLink these with [[ ]] because they are used for other purposes in the template code).

county

the county name including the word "County", i.e. Dorchester County

state

the state name, i.e. Maryland

County seal

An image of the county seal can be displayed near the top of the infobox, immediately below the title. Use only the file name, without the Image: or File: prefix.

seal

(optional) County seal image (name only), i.e. Dorchester County md seal.png

seal size

(optional) Allows changing image size from 75px default (IMPORTANT: omit this parameter if not used; leaving it blank will cause the image to display full size)

Location maps

These parameters are used to specify the image file to be displayed.

boundary_map

the image name (name only) i.e. Or-baker-boundary.png

county_map

the image name (name only), i.e. Or-baker.png

state_map

the image name (name only), i.e. Oregon.png

latd

Latitude decimal degrees

longd

Longitude decimal degrees

Note: If you wish to display degree, minutes and seconds use whole numbers and the additional parameters latm, lats, longm, longs and enter N or S for latNS and E or W for longEW.

Facts

Date founded

The old way of specifying this was via the founded parameter. Although that still works, the new method is via the following parameters.

founded year

if you include a reference, the auto-wikilink won't work, so add [[ ]] around the year

founded date

(optional) syntax is: February 1

founded title

(optional) text to replace the default heading "Founded" (IMPORTANT: omit this parameter if not used; leaving it blank will cause a blank box to left of year)

Parent County

parent county

(optional) use wikitext to add a link to the parent county. If more than one add <br /> between each one eg. [[Washington County, State|Washington]]<br/>[[Adams County, State|Adams]]

County motto

motto

(optional) the county motto

County seat

The old way of specifying this was via the seat parameter. Although that still works, a new method that automatically generates the WikiLink is shown below.

seat wl

name of county seat; the wikilink is created for you: "City" results in "[[City, State|City]]"

County building

An image and address of the courthouse or city hall can be displayed. Use only the file name, without the Image: or File: prefix.

building image

(optional) building image (name only), i.e. Dorchester County courthouse.jpg

building image size

(optional) allows changing image size from 200px default (IMPORTANT: omit this parameter if not used; leaving it blank will cause the image to display full size)

building image cap

(optional) a caption displayed in small text below the building image

building address

(optional) displayed in text below the building image, use <br/> to separate different lines (not dependant on image being shown

Official county web site

web

(optional) url for official county website (not courthouse), without "http://" and brackets, i.e. www.LaPorteCounty.org (template automatically generates external link)

Source of county name

named for

(optional) text describing meaning of county's name

named for image

(optional) the named for image (name only)

named for size

(optional) allows changing image size from 200px default (IMPORTANT: omit this parameter if not used; leaving it blank will cause the image to display full size)

County flag

An image of the county flag can be displayed near the bottom of the infobox. Use only the file name, without the Image: or File: prefix.

flag

(optional) county flag image (name only), i.e. Dorchester County flag.png

flag size

(optional) allows changing image size from 100px default (IMPORTANT: omit this parameter if not used; leaving it blank will cause the image to display full size)

County logo

An image of the county logo can be displayed near the bottom of the infobox. Use only the file name, without the Image: or File: prefix.

logo

(optional) county logo image (name only), i.e. Dorchester County logo.png

logo size

(optional) allows changing image size from 100px default (IMPORTANT: omit this parameter if not used; leaving it blank will cause the image to display full size)

Extra image

An additional image can be displayed near the bottom of the infobox. Use only the file name, without the Image: or File: prefix.

ex image

(optional) extra image (name only), i.e. Dorchester County courthouse.jpg

ex image size

(optional) allows changing image size from 200px default (IMPORTANT: omit this parameter if not used; leaving it blank will cause the image to display full size)

ex image cap

(optional) a caption displayed in small text below the extra image

Footnotes

footnotes

(optional) text to display next at bottom of infobox (no heading)

Examples

Example for Anderson County, Texas

Code

{{Infobox U.S. County
| county = Anderson County
| county_map = Tx-anderson.png
| state = Texas
| state_map = Texas.png 
| founded year = 1846
| founded date = March 24
| parent county = [[Houston County, Texas Genealogy|Houston]]
| seat wl = Palestine
| building image = TexasAndersonCourthouse.jpg
| building address = 500 N. Church Street,</br>#10, Palestine, TX 75801
| named for = {{wpd|Kenneth Lewis Anderson|Kenneth L. Anderson}}, congressman and vice president of the Republic of Texas
| adoption_sign = 
}} 

Result

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Anderson County, Texas
Map
Location in the state of Texas
Location of Texas in the U.S.
Facts
Founded	March 24, 1846
Parent County	Houston
County Seat	Palestine
Courthouse
Address	500 N. Church Street, #10, Palestine, TX 75801
Named for: Kenneth L. Anderson, congressman and vice president of the Republic of Texas

Example for Yell County, Arkansas

Code

{{Infobox U.S. County
| county = Yell County
| county_map = Ar-yell.png
| state = Arkansas
| state_map = Arkansas.png 
| founded year = 1840
| founded date = December 5
| seat wl = Danville
| adoption_sign = 
| custom_text = <center>[mailto:gaylelt@comcast.net Gayle Triller], County Coordinator<br>'''[http://www.argenweb.net/yell/ Yell Co. ARGenWeb]'''</center> 
}}

Result

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Yell County, Arkansas
Map
Location in the state of Arkansas
Location of Arkansas in the U.S.
Facts
Founded	December 5, 1840
County Seat	Danville
Courthouse