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The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database that contains name and locative information about more than two million physical and cultural features located throughout the United States of America and its territories. It is a type of gazetteer. GNIS was developed by the United States Geological Survey in cooperation with the United States Board on Geographic Names (BGN) to promote the standardization of feature names.
The database is part of a system that includes topographic map names and bibliographic references. The names of books and historic maps that confirm the feature or place name are cited. Variant names, alternatives to official federal names for a feature, are also recorded. Each feature receives a permanent, unique feature record identifier, sometimes called the GNIS identifier.[1] The database never removes an entry, "except in cases of obvious duplication."[2]
The GNIS accepts proposals for new or changed names for U.S. geographical features. The general public can make proposals at the GNIS web site and can review the justifications and supporters of the proposals.
New York City, United States, American Civil War, Hawaii, Western United States
Antarctica, Geography, United States Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Benjamin Harrison
United States Department of the Interior, Reston, Virginia, Public domain, Nasa, United States Department of Agriculture
Summit County, Ohio, Portage County, Ohio, Logan County, Ohio, Geauga County, Ohio, Stark County, Ohio
Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, Aleutians East Borough, Alaska, Census tract, Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska, Borough
United States Census Bureau, Bergen County, New Jersey, New Jersey, Republican Party (United States), Paramus, New Jersey