{"id":1456,"date":"2020-07-16T16:44:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T16:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/?page_id=1456"},"modified":"2025-08-22T20:49:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T20:49:30","slug":"gazetteers-online-new","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/collections\/gazetteers-new\/gazetteers-online-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Gazetteers Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"nav nav-tabs\">\n<li class=\"active\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/collections\/gazetteers-new\/gazetteers-online-new\/\">Online Gazetteers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/collections\/gazetteers-new\/gazetteers-web-resources-new\/\">Web Resources<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_2328\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2328\" style=\"width: 482px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2328\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2020\/08\/GNIS-Champaign-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshots from the United States Geological Survey's GNIS website showing search interface and search results table.\" width=\"482\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2020\/08\/GNIS-Champaign-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2020\/08\/GNIS-Champaign-1024x727.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2020\/08\/GNIS-Champaign-768x545.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2020\/08\/GNIS-Champaign.jpg 1209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2328\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i> GNIS search and results for Champaign, Illinois<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h2>United States<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/core-science-systems\/ngp\/board-on-geographic-names\/domestic-names\">U.S. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) <\/a><br \/>\nUSGS database allows searching on U.S. geographic places by specific variables including elevation and population range (will give latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/geographies\/reference-files\/time-series\/geo\/gazetteer-files.html\">U.S. Gazetteer <\/a><br \/>\nProduced by the U.S. Census Bureau. Downloadable files<\/p>\n<h2>North American Neighbors<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrcan.gc.ca\/earth-sciences\/geography\/place-names\/10786\"> Canadian Geographical Names <\/a><br \/>\nFrom the Canadian Board on Geographic Names, a part of Natural Resources Canada<\/p>\n<h2>World<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01CARLI_UIU\/gpjosq\/alma99457360512205899\"> Columbia Gazetteer <\/a><br \/>\nAn extensive, encyclopedic world gazetteer &#8212; UIUC access only<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geonames.nga.mil\/geonames\/GNSHome\/index.html\"> GEOnet Names Server <\/a><br \/>\nA gazetteer of foreign geographic feature names by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geonames.org\/\">GeoNames<\/a><br \/>\nOver 27 million place names integrated from a variety of sources.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.getty.edu\/research\/tools\/vocabularies\/tgn\/index.html\"> Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names <\/a><br \/>\nWorld place names primarily from the field of art history<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishgen.org\/Communities\/\"> JewishGen Gazetteer <\/a> (Formerly Shtetl Seeker)<br \/>\nDatabase containing the names of all localities in the 54 countries of Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia, based on the US. Board on Geographic Names databases. Requires signing up for free personal account.<\/p>\n<h2>Other Place Name Resources<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libguides.asu.edu\/content.php?pid=10928&amp;sid=79050\">Place Name Sites <\/a><br \/>\nCompiled by the Arizona State University Map Collection Library<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online Gazetteers Web Resources &nbsp; United States U.S. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) USGS database allows searching on U.S. geographic places by specific variables including elevation and population range (will give latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates) U.S. Gazetteer Produced by the U.S. Census Bureau. Downloadable files North American Neighbors Canadian Geographical Names From the Canadian Board [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":0,"parent":1451,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1456","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4039,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1456\/revisions\/4039"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}