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#Import the us package
import us

#Get a dictionary of the URLs for NC
shpURL = us.states.NC.shapefile_urls()

#Get the county URL
shpURL['county']


    

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import geopandas as gpd
import pandas as pd
%matplotlib inline


    

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import urllib
urllib.urlretrieve(shpURL['county'],filename='foo.zip')


    

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import zipfile
zf = zipfile.ZipFile(file='foo.zip')
zf.extractall()


    

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gdf = gpd.read_file('tl_2010_37_county10.shp')


    

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gdf.dtypes


    

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gdf.loc[0]


    

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Durm = gdf[gdf['GEOID10'] == '37063']


    

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gdf.plot();