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 Columbia : ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Freedom Lakes : Trade Lake : Burnett, Polk : lake : 453808N0923400W : : : Two lakes, 1 mi E of Atlas and 5 mi WSW of Frederic; NW lake is at 453830N0923315W : : 1577269 : BGN 1963 : US-T121 : 9102 : 6301 : : 45092-F5 : 55013 55095 : WI, Wisconsin : Negro Heel Lake (US-M120), Negro Heel Lakes (US-M962/Milltown/1955), Negro Hill Lakes (US-T121), Negrow Heel Lake (US-T121), Niger Heel Lake (US-T121), Nigger Heel Lake (US-T121) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Niger Post Office (historical) : Roberts : Escambia : po : UNKNOWN : Conecuh : : : : 168540 : : US-T140/6 : 9103 : : : 31086-A8 : 01053 : AL, Alabama : ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sam Branch : Oblong North, Yale : Jasper : stream : 390329N0875736W 390558N0880043W : : : : : 417911 : : : : : 390558N0880043W : 39087-A8 39088-A1 : 17079 : IL, Illinois : Niger Branch (IL-M10) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Nigers Creek : Unknown : Geauga : stream : UNKNOWN : : : Located in Newbury Twp : : 1068598 : : OH-T25 : 9204 : : : : 39055 : OH, Ohio : Niger's Creek (OH-T25) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Niger Hill : Coudersport : Potter : summit : 415140N0780500W : : 2360.00 : : : 1201691 : : US-M962/Coudersport/1948 : 8911 : : : 41078-G1 : 42105 : PA, Pennsylvania : ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerald Canyon : Laguna Beach : Orange : valley : 333304N1174825W : Cleveland : : : : 254119 : BGN 1968 : : : : 333534N1174649W : 33117-E7 : 06059 : CA, California : Mayate Canyon, Niger Canyon ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Oh my gosh - one is from politically correct CA :-o I find 806 records with the word "negro" in the name. Mike Edward Sevcik wrote: > > 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 to have this word as part of their traditional > names. Recently there has been a movement to remove this word from > geographic place names in the USA, and it must have been scrubbed from > the current data set. Now enter the feature name "negro" and run the > query for Mississippi. Several results appear, including "Dead Negro > Slough." Apparently the name changes are pretty cursory in some > instances. Now try the same experiment with "ni**er" and select > state: Alabama. "Ni**er" returns four results, all with the offending > term automatically translated to "negro" (including the "Negro Heel > Bar"). However, querying "negro" for Alabama retrieves considerably > more records. This seems to indicate that the data sets include a > "former name" field which Alabama populates and which Mississippi does > not. The search engine queries this field but it does not appear in > the results. To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to mailto:majord...@cavetex.net with the following message--unsubscribe cavetex. For help and information go to www.cavetex.net. List administrator: mailto:jswh...@cavetex.net
