Archive guide · US
USGS GNIS place names (incl. historical)
searched live by Provara
What it holds
Every named US place, current and historical, with state, county and coordinates
Who runs it, and on what terms
- Provider
- U.S. Geological Survey
- Licence for use here
- Public domain (US federal)
- Attribution
- Cite 'USGS GNIS'
- Cost to search
- free
- Terms read
- 2026-09-06
- Official documentation
- https://www.usgs.gov/tools/geographic-names-information-system-gnis
How to search it in Provara
- Places and gazetteers: ask Provara where a place on a record actually is.
- Provara searches this archive alongside every other live one, ranks what comes back by how many of the person's recorded facts each hit contains, and shows you the record with a ready citation. Nothing is added to your tree until you confirm it.
Record types here
- Places and gazetteers — Every named place, current and historical, with its county and coordinates — how a vanished village on a record is found on a map.
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