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also the principal missionary stations throughout the globe, 1842., Digital ID 465014 , New York Public Library Columbia Gazetteer of the World

The Columbia Gazetteer's Advanced Search page provides comprehensive tools for locating and organizing information about the places covered in the Gazetteer in a variety of ways. Users can combine place-name or full-text searching with metadata elements on the entries, or just by metadata categories.

 

also the principal missionary stations throughout the globe, 1842., Digital ID 465014 , New York Public Library ePodunk 

Information on US counties, cities, towns, communities and podunks. 

 

also the principal missionary stations throughout the globe, 1842., Digital ID 465014 , New York Public Library Geographical Names Board of Canada 

In Canada, since 1897, names on official, federal government maps have been authorized through a national committee, now known as the Geographical Names Board of Canada (GNBC).

 

 

also the principal missionary stations throughout the globe, 1842., Digital ID 465014 , New York Public Library Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is the Federal and national standard for geographic nomenclature. The U.S. Geological Survey developed the GNIS in support of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names as the official repository of domestic geoprahic names data, the offivial vehicle for geographic names use by all departments of the Federal Government, and the source for applying geographic names to Federal electronic and printed products. The GNIS contains information about physical and cultural geographic features of all types in the U.S., associated areas and Antaectica, current and historical, but not including roads and highways.

 

 

also the principal missionary stations throughout the globe, 1842., Digital ID 465014 , New York Public Library Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online 

TGN is a structured vocabulary currently containing around 1,106,000 names and other information about places. Names for a place may include names in the vernacular language, English, other languages, historical names, names and in natural order and inverted order. Among these names, one is flagged as the preferred name.

 

also the principal missionary stations throughout the globe, 1842., Digital ID 465014 , New York Public Library Maplandia

Maplandia.com provides the searchable world gazetteer based on Google Maps, the most comprehensive online satellite imagery ever available. More than 2,000,000 places all over the world are divided into many geographical categories according to continents, countries and administrative regions.

 

also the principal missionary stations throughout the globe, 1842., Digital ID 465014 , New York Public Library NGA GEOnet Names Server (GNS)

The Geographic Names Server is the official repository of standard spellings of all foreign place names, sanctioned by the United States Board on Geographic Names. The database also contains variant spellings (cross-references), which are useful for finding purposes. All the geographic features in the database contain information about location, administrative division, and quality. 

 

also the principal missionary stations throughout the globe, 1842., Digital ID 465014 , New York Public Library US Census Bureau 2010, 2000 and 1990 gazetteer

Information for US places, counties, county subdivisions, census tracts, and ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs). 

   

 

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