Geographical Information

• Atlases, maps, new and old .  Old topographical maps; maps in east wing; water and spring maps; annotated maps (Jones).  County nomenclature: Riverside Co. cut out of San Diego Co. in 1893.

• California’s geographic names, a gazetteer of historic and modern names of the state (David L. Durham) Clovis, CA: Word Dancer, 1998 (F859 .D87 1998 Reference).  Index to all names that have appeared on topographic maps of California with lat. long. and TRS locators for each place.

• Gazetteers, geographical dictionaries, local and regional place name indices for old and regional nomenclature.  The Wikipedia has a comprehensive list (with links) to many national and regional gazetteers.

• Index Holmensis: a world phytogeographic index (Hans Tralau), 9 vols.  Zürich: The Scientific Publishers, 1969- (QK11 .T73).  Index to places of publication of plant distribution maps, world-wide.

• Jepson place name index About 10,000 known plant collection localities in California are listed.

• NGA GeoNET names server (GNS) is the official repository of  all non-U.S. place names sanctioned by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, which operates its own website to search domestic and foreign names.