Effective October 1, 2014:
As a result of reprioritized budgets and resources, the decision has been made to suspend the maintenance of some administrative (i.e. cultural or manmade) feature names in The National Map and to discontinue the maintenance of all administrative names through the GNIS public interface at this site (http://geonames.usgs.gov). The features that will continue to be maintained in The National Map will be updated in GNIS on a periodic revision cycle through submissions from authoritative sources or based on input from volunteers through The National Map Corps.

If you are interested in participating in The National Map Corps, which “encourages citizens to collect structures data by adding new features, removing obsolete points, and correcting existing data for The National Map,” please visit the following Web site: http://navigator.er.usgs.gov. To identify the administrative features to be maintained through The National Map Corps program, click "Structures List" located on the left-hand side of the page.

If you have further questions, please visit The National Map home page at: http://nationalmap.gov.

Click any field title for help in entering query data. Click Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) tab for important information. *Elevations are from the National Elevation Dataset The GNIS Feature ID, Official Feature Name, and Official Feature Location are American National Standards Institute standards (ANSI INCITS 446-2008). The standard is available at the ANSI Web Store.