Information

To find information about a specific city or town in the United States, enter the place name then select the state (optional), and choose Go.

An asterisk (*) can be used as a wild-card character at the beginning or middle of a word. Upper- and lower-case letters are treated the same, it doesn't matter which you use. Only the first 100 results are displayed, if you get more than 100, try entering more specific information.

Suggestions:

  • If you want to know all instances of a place name regardless of the state, enter the place name with no state ("ALL").
  • If you want to know the county for a place, enter a place name and select a state.
  • If you are unsure of the spelling of a place, enter just the first few characters.
  • If you know that the place has a word in the name, but you're not sure where, enter an asterisk before the word. For example, let's say that you know the place has the word "point" in the name, just enter "*point" and select the state.

There are currently 168747 records in this database. Data is from the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Roadmaps are provided by www.mapquest.com.


Links to Other Place Locators

Countries/regions:

World:

  • Expedia Maps
  • Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names - A structured vocabulary developed primarily for the field of art history. Geographic names from the thesaurus can be used to record the current location of the art object, its place of origin, the loci of activity of the artist, and the sites of the artist’s birth and death.
  • GEOnet Names Server - Access to the National Imagery and Mapping Agency's (NIMA) database of 3.5 million foreign geographic feature names.
  • GeoNative - Minority and native language place names .. if you can't find it on a modern map, you may be able to find it here!
  • The JewishGen ShtetlSeeker - Search for towns in Central and Eastern Europe, using exact spelling or the Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex system.

Planetary:

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