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SiteFinder Place Name Database


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Each record gives the place name, the county in which it is (or was) located, and the latitude and longitude coordinates for all but a few. 
There are two additional fields, "H" and "S". 

The H column is used to indicate places that are designated as Historical. In these listings, they indicate places that are no longer in existence. 

The "S" field is used to show the source of the information. If the "S" field is empty, the information is from the Populated Places list published by the U.S. Geological Survey. In addition, the following code letters are used to show the type of feature.

     B: Building - a manmade structure with walls and a roof for protection of people  and (or) materials, but not including church, hospital, or school. 

     E: Cemetery - a place or area for burying the dead (burial, burying ground, grave, memorial garden). 

     W: Church - building used for religious worship (chapel, mosque, synagogue, tabernacle, temple). 

     V: Civil - a political division formed for administrative purposes (borough, county, municipal, parish, town, township). 

     I: Island - area of dry or relatively dry land surrounded by water or low wetland (archipelago, atoll, cay, hammock, hummock, isle, key, moku, rock). 

     L: Locale - place at which there is or was human activity; it does not include populated places, mines, and dams (battlefield, crossroad, camp, farm, ghost 
     town, landing, railroad siding, ranch, ruins, site, station, windmill). 

     N: Mine - place or area from which commercial minerals are or were removed from the Earth; not including oilfield (pit, quarry, shaft). 

     M: Military (historical) - place or facility formerly used for various aspects of or relating to military activity. 

     K; Park - place or area set aside for recreation or preservation of a cultural or natural resource and under some form of government administration; not including 
     National or State forests or Reserves (national historical landmark, national park, State park, wilderness area). 

     O: Post Office - (Formerly abbreviated as PO) an official facility of the U.S. Postal Service used for processing and distributing mail and other postal 
     material. 

     <Blank> Populated Place - (Formerly abbreviated as ppl) place or area with clustered or scattered buildings and a permanent human population (city, settlement, town, 
     village). 

     R: Reserve - a tract of land set aside for a specific use (does not include forests, civil divisions, parks). This will include some Indian Reservations.

     S: School - building or group of buildings used as an institution for study, teaching, and learning (academy, college, high school, university). 

     C: Courthouse - Usually indicates the county or parish seat.

Note: The above feature class definitions were furnished by the U.S. Geological Survey with the exception of those in italics.

Many of the place names are followed by "v-" and another place name. These are variant names, usually obsolete, for the indicated location.

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