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The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and location information about more than two million physical and cultural features throughout the United States and its territories; the associated states of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau; and Antarctica. It is a type of gazetteer.
The GEOnet Names Server (GNS), sometimes also referred to in official documentation as Geographic Names Data [1] or geonames [2] in domain and email addresses, is a service that provides access to the United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA) and the US Board on Geographic Names's (BGN) database of geographic feature names and locations for locations outside the US.
Geographic Names Information System is the official repository for place names in the United States, with a database of over 2 million natural and man-made features. [1] Entries are compiled from sources such as atlases, gazetteers and topo maps.
The United States Census Bureau defines census designated places, which are a subset of locations in the Geographic Names Information System. The names of post offices have historically been used to back up claims about the name of a community. US Postal Service Publication 28 gives standards for addressing mail.
The GNIS records sourced to Ramsay were imported into the GNIS over the years 1988 to 1991. [1] This "more than doubled" the GNIS data-set for Missouri. [1] The problems with them are: The GNIS records have been bulk transcribed and information about the place has been lost.
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New names will replace the word squaw, effective immediately, at nearly 650 geographic features across the country including Washeshu Creek, formerly known as Squaw Creek, and Olympic Valley, long ...
Even though Rennick calls the account unconfirmed, it is clearly folkloric, and the account itself calls the place a "rockhouse" (i.e. a cave, pretty much), the GNIS has a "Populated Place" record for "Winding Stair", Geographic Names Information System, United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Hence the mass ...