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Re:Ask HN: list of United States regions, state, county, cit... by pauldi on Thursday October 20, 2011 @04:50PM (#3136917)
Have you tried geonames? I've not specifically used it for the US but that kind of information is in there for other countries. Only drawback of using geonames is that it can be a bit of effort getting what you want out of their feed.

This seems to suggest the data you're after is in there: http://www.geonames.org/postal-codes/postal-codes-us.html

Re:Ask HN: list of United States regions, state, county, cit... by gyardley on Thursday October 20, 2011 @05:19PM (#3137079)
Yep - with the possible exception of exact ZIP boundaries, it should all be on the download server: http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/

Grab the US.zip file and the English-language feature codes, filter down the data to the stuff you're interested in, and you're good to go.

Re:Ask HN: list of United States regions, state, county, cit... by mjs00 on Friday October 21, 2011 @01:35AM (#3138591)
For $40 these guys have something that also includes area code, time zone and is recent data & quick download, if that matters for your project:

http://zipcodedownload.com/Products/Product/Z5Commercial/Sta...

Regions for states is not something well defined, at least that I've found, as the definition varies depending on purpose (commerce, agriculture, political, ...). If you find something good, I'd love to hear about it.

Re:Ask HN: list of United States regions, state, county, cit... by hhimanshu on Friday October 21, 2011 @12:00PM (#3140362)
for region to states, I found this - http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0770177.html

Let me know if that is what you were looking for

Re:Ask HN: list of United States regions, state, county, cit... by mjs00 on Tuesday October 25, 2011 @12:30AM (#3152818)
Hi hhimanshu - I totally mis-understood what you meant - if you were looking to group states into national regions, your link looks pretty good. I was thinking of regions in terms of grouping counties into logical/meaningful state regions. I do that thus far for CA and NY where in each I have about 10 regions.
Re:Ask HN: list of United States regions, state, county, cit... by akira2501 on Thursday October 20, 2011 @04:32PM (#3136831)
I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to accomplish, but the USPS TIGER database can (sometimes) be useful in this area: http://zip4.usps.com/ncsc/addressmgmt/tiger.htm
Re:Ask HN: list of United States regions, state, county, cit... by alexgandy on Thursday October 20, 2011 @04:38PM (#3136865)
Here's a direct link to a CSV of the 2000 Census Fips Region/Zip code, which I believe is taken from the USPS TIGER DB:

http://www.census.gov/tiger/tms/gazetteer/zips.txt

Re:Ask HN: list of United States regions, state, county, cit... by hhimanshu on Thursday October 20, 2011 @05:24PM (#3137113)
All I need is a mapping from county to cities, which is missing in this data too
Re:Ask HN: list of United States regions, state, county, cit... by hhimanshu on Thursday October 20, 2011 @04:52PM (#3136921)
This is awesome, it has loads of data, I can use it all, thank you
Re:Ask HN: list of United States regions, state, county, cit... by hhimanshu on Thursday October 20, 2011 @04:37PM (#3136855)
this doesn't seem to have any link that gives this result
Re:Ask HN: list of United States regions, state, county, cit... by eknuth on Monday October 24, 2011 @08:28PM (#3152220)
If you aren't looking for an API solution, you might want to check this out: http://zips.sourceforge.net/

It isn't the most recent data, but it ought to get you started.

Re:Ask HN: list of United States regions, state, county, cit... by br0ke on Thursday October 20, 2011 @04:30PM (#3136820)
CivicSpace released a CSV db of that a while back. http://www.boutell.com/zipcodes/
Re:Ask HN: list of United States regions, state, county, cit... by chaithsc on Thursday October 20, 2011 @09:37PM (#3137934)
Re:Ask HN: list of United States regions, state, county, cit... by vrikhter on Thursday October 20, 2011 @04:28PM (#3136804)
Have you tried looking at factual.com?