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Yale Peabody Museum: GNIS Database 
Description: Available from this portion of the Peabody Museum web are 1,233,933 records corresponding to the labeled features that can be found on the 1:24,000 scale topographic maps of the US Geological Survey. A synopsis of the GNIS is as follows (excerpted from the USGS/GNIS FactSheet, June 1991):
"The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a data system developed by the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the U. S. Board on Geographic Names. The National Geographic Names Data Base is the largest of the GNIS databases, containing records on almost two million geographic feature names in the United States: from populated places, schools, reservoirs, and parks, to streams, valleys, springs, and ridges."
The Peabody version of the GNIS is an extract of the information present in the full GNIS database as distributed by the USGS (our extract represents "core data" that we have found most useful when trying to resolve USA locality issues with museum specimens, especially historical material).
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