This is a USGS website of name lists of geographic locations throughout the
U.S. It's an alphabetical list organized by state & contains the geographic
name, county & coordinates.
_http://geonames.usgs.gov/stategaz/index.html_
(http://geonames.usgs.gov/stategaz/index.html)
An interesting experiment: On the query page, for "feature name" enter the
word "ni**er." (in this message I have replaced the letter g with stars to
prevent automatic email filtering.) Select state: Mississippi. No results
returned, although there are many features in Mississippi that used
I use the query feature quite a bit for georeferencing species locations
for some caddisflies I work on.
http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/
It has a pretty nice feature that links directly to topozone.com so you
can check to see if the query found what you're looking for. Then you can
I've noted that the poeple in charge of this want to expunge "hillbilly" as well.
Ted-Original Message- From: Edward Sevcik Sent: Sep 8, 2005 9:06 AM To: cave...@cavetex.net Subject: Re: CaveTex: geographic names lists An interesting experiment: On the query page, fo
When the list of named features was first released by the NGS around 10
years ago, it had a LOT of caves listed by name. I believe that the
NSS worked with the NGS to purge the list of most of those locations
(except commercial and well known locations) for safety reasons.
rt
At 03:54 AM 9/8/200
These are the only ones I could find for the US and
it's territories:
Embassy of the Republic of Niger : Washington West : District of
Columbia : building : 385446N0770258W : : : : National Holiday:
Republic Day, Dec 18 : 529827 : : DC-T148 : 9105 : : : 38077-H1 :
11001 : DC, District of C
,
"cave...@cavetex.net"
Subject: Re: CaveTex: geographic names lists
Not too hard. There are only 6:
Hillbilly Dam : Malta East : Phillips : dam : 482006N1074836W : : :
: : 798271 : : US-T107/8009 : 9401 : : : 48107-C7 : 30071 : MT,
Montana :
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If anyone took offense to Ed's posting, perhaps they should examine why they
felt offended. Any dictionary used by institutes of higher learning will show
that the term alluded to was originally used for "ANY" socially disadvantaged
person although the term is derived some several origins refer
Not too hard. There are only 6:
Hillbilly Dam : Malta East : Phillips : dam : 482006N1074836W : : :
: : 798271 : : US-T107/8009 : 9401 : : : 48107-C7 : 30071 : MT,
Montana :
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Hillbilly Windmill : Mickey Draw East : Lla
To be precise, it listed 6,031 caves across the country and
only 38 in TX.
These are the TX caves that were listed, and all had
exact locations:
Bat Cave - Comal County
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Bat Cave - Medina County
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Oops! Gotta change the name of the cave in Bosque County...could be
misconstrued to be a racial slur.
Mike
-Original Message-
From: Mike Flannigan
Sent: Sep 9, 2005 7:25 AM
To: Robert Tait , "cave...@cavetex.net"
Subject: Re: CaveTex: geographic names lists
To be p
riday, September 09, 2005 4:24 PM
To: cave...@cavetex.net
Subject: Re: CaveTex: geographic names lists
Oops! Gotta change the name of the cave in Bosque County...could be
misconstrued to be a racial slur.
Mike
-Original Message-
From: Mike Flannigan
Sent: Sep 9, 2005 7:25 AM
To: R
Good work Ed!
- Original Message -
From: Edward Sevcik
To: cave...@cavetex.net
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 8:06 AM
Subject: Re: CaveTex: geographic names lists
An interesting experiment: On the query page, for "feature name" enter the
word "ni
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