USGS Name Syste

[Grant Barrett]

USGS Name System is at http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisform.simple.ht
ml  .

The GEONet Names Server  http://164.214.2.59/gns/html/index.html  will
search the whole world, but is not as complete.

abatef wrote:
} Listers,
}
} For a thoroughgoing look at ALL US places with the element "Pointe" (or
} with any element at all for that matter), look at the Geog Names Info
} System from USGS.  I believe it is available on their website, though I
} have not tried to use it there myself.  But it is an absolutely
} comprehensive, authoritative, and regularly updated repository of all
US
} placenames, populated places (some 120,000!) and other -- more than a
} million total.  It is a marvel.