diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 7cc2aa0..3f7b277 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -16,8 +16,7 @@ URL: https://usmap.dev
 BugReports: https://github.com/pdil/usmap/issues
 Imports:
     rlang,
-    usmapdata,
-    utils
+    usmapdata (>= 0.1.2)
 Suggests:
     covr,
     ggplot2,
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 3c7f041..c69709d 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,6 +1,16 @@
 # usmap 0.6.3.9999
 
+### Improvements
+* Replace local state and county FIPS files with `usmapdata::fips_data()`.
+  * Single source of truth for this data is now housed in `usmapdata`.
+  * Data will be updated in sync with shapefile updates.
+
+### Bug Fixes
+* FIPS file change resolves issue with Valdez-Cordova Census Area in Alaska, see [Issue #72](https://github.com/pdil/usmap/issues/72).
 
+### Technical Changes
+* Resolve all code-linting warnings.
+* Increase test coverage to 100%.
 
 # usmap 0.6.3
 Released Saturday, October 21, 2023.
@@ -36,7 +46,7 @@ Released Sunday, February 27, 2022.
 * Extract map data frame to external [usmapdata](https://github.com/pdil/usmapdata) package to reduce `usmap` package size, see [Issue #39](https://github.com/pdil/usmap/issues/39).
   * All existing functions (including `us_map()`) should continue to work as usual.
 * Add data format examples for `plot_usmap` to "Mapping" vignette, see [Issue #42](https://github.com/pdil/usmap/issues/42).
-  
+
 ### Bug Fixes
 * Fix CRS warnings, see [Issue #40](https://github.com/pdil/usmap/issues/40).
 * Fix `plot_usmap()` issue when provided data has `"values"` column, see [Issue #48](https://github.com/pdil/usmap/issues/48) and [this Stack Overflow question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61111024/trouble-using-plot-usmap-function-in-usmap-package).
@@ -71,7 +81,7 @@ Released Friday, September 13, 2019.
 * Ability to exclude counties and states with new `exclude` parameter in `us_map`, `map_with_data`, and `plot_usmap`, see [Issue #19](https://github.com/pdil/usmap/issues/19).
 * New function (`usmap_transform`) to transform longitude/latitude point data frames into coordinate reference system that matches the plotted map, see [Issue #21](https://github.com/pdil/usmap/issues/21).
   * Also includes `usmap_crs()` to easily access the coordinate reference system used by the package.
-  
+
 ### Improvements
 * In the data frames provided by `us_map()`, `long` and `lat` have been renamed to `x` and `y`, respectively, see [Issue #16](https://github.com/pdil/usmap/issues/16).
   * This should not affect the behavior of `plot_usmap()` but will be a breaking change for any code that relies on `us_map()`.
diff --git a/R/fips.R b/R/fips.R
index c76625d..3da978d 100644
--- a/R/fips.R
+++ b/R/fips.R
@@ -52,8 +52,7 @@
 #' @export
 fips <- function(state, county = c()) {
   if (missing(state) && missing(county)) {
-    df <- usmapdata::fips_data()
-    return(sprintf("%02d", df$fips))
+    return(usmapdata::fips_data()$fips)
   }
 
   state_ <- tolower(state)
@@ -66,10 +65,8 @@ fips <- function(state, county = c()) {
     fips2 <- c(df$fips, df$fips)
 
     result <- fips2[match(state_, c(abbr, full))]
-
-    formatted_result <- sprintf("%02d", result)
-    formatted_result[formatted_result == "NA"] <- NA
-    formatted_result
+    result[result == "NA"] <- NA
+    result
   } else {
     if (length(state_) > 1) {
       stop("`county` parameter cannot be used with multiple states.")
@@ -99,7 +96,7 @@ fips <- function(state, county = c()) {
         stop(paste0(county, " are not valid counties in ", state, ".\n"))
       }
     } else {
-      sprintf("%05d", result)
+      result
     }
   }
 }
diff --git a/man/set_sp_evolution_status.Rd b/man/set_sp_evolution_status.Rd
deleted file mode 100644
index 30a8f1d..0000000
--- a/man/set_sp_evolution_status.Rd
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-% Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand
-% Please edit documentation in R/transform.R
-\name{set_sp_evolution_status}
-\alias{set_sp_evolution_status}
-\title{Set sp evolution status}
-\usage{
-set_sp_evolution_status()
-}
-\description{
-Sets the \code{sp} evolution status to "2" to
-force usage of \code{sf} instead of \code{rgdal}
-which is being retired.
-
-This can be removed in the future when the evolution status
-is set to >= 2 by default in \code{sf}.
-}
-\keyword{internal}
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-transform.R b/tests/testthat/test-transform.R
index a27e2f4..5666999 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-transform.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-transform.R
@@ -111,9 +111,3 @@ test_that("error occurs for data with non-numeric columns", {
   expect_error(usmap_transform(invalid_data2))
   expect_error(usmap_transform(invalid_data3))
 })
-
-test_that("sp evolution status is set correctly", {
-  sp::set_evolution_status(1L)
-  usmap_transform(data.frame(lon = 0, lat = 0))
-  expect_equal(sp::get_evolution_status(), 2L)
-})