cellos/DomesticNames_AllStates_Text huggingface dataset:
Chinaman Lagoon (Bay), Aleutians East County, Alaska (55.5241667, -161.6958333)
Description: along W shore of Pavlof Bay, Alaska Peninsula, Aleutian Range. 1.8 miles long.
History: Local name reported by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in 1929. A proposal to change the name of the lagoon was not approved by the BGN in June 2020.
Hoskins Island (Island), Northeastern Connecticut County, Connecticut (41.8588635, -71.7974394)
Description: 0.3 acre; in the Town of Killingly, at the S end of Killingly Pond, 1.2 mi. NW of Jerimoth Hill
History: The name commemorates U.S. Army SPC Christopher Hoskins (1983-2005), who was killed in Iraq at the age of 21 during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Saunders County (Civil), Saunders County, Nebraska (41.2263705, -96.6374007)
Description: Located in east central Nebraska, about 51 km (32 mi) west of Omaha; County Seat:  Wahoo.
History: Originally named Calhoun County with boundaries defined on 26 January 1856 and redefined on 3 November 1858.  This name was changed by an act of the Legislature on 8 January 1862 to honor Alvin Saunders who served as Nebraska Territorial Governor from 1861-1867.  (NE-T18/p125-6)
Asheville (Populated Place), Buncombe County, North Carolina (35.6009452, -82.554015)
Description: Located in central Buncombe County along the French Broad River.
History: Settled in 1792; incorporated in 1797. At one time called Morristown, likely for William Morris who cast the deciding vote as a Commissioner which sellected the site for the Buncombe County Courthouse in 1792. Name changed to Asheville in 1797 for Samuel Ashe (1725-1798), Governor of North Carolina from 1795 to 1798. (NC-T11/p14)
Willow Gulch (Valley), Nome County, Alaska (64.7803688, -164.4360755)
Description: trends SW to Casadepaga River, 2.7 mi. SW of Casadepaga and 15 mi. NE of Solomon, Seward Peninsula Highlands.
History: Prospectors' name reported in 1907 by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) geologists (Smith, P S., 1910, pl. 4).
Perry Island (Island), Chugach County, Alaska (60.7063889, -147.9236111)
Description: in Prince William Sound, between Perry Passage and Lone  Passage, 24 mi. SE of Whittier, Chugach Mts.
History: Name published on D. H. Sleem's map of Central Alaska,  dated 1910. This is probably the same as the island called "Perry" by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS)  in 1900, and "Stamie" by F. C. Schrader, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in 1900. Schrader reported that it had been "used as a blue fox farm by Kndall and Steamy (Stamie) since 1897."
Reef Lake (Lake), Ketchikan Gateway County, Alaska (55.1154918, -130.2453241)
Description: In the E portion of Peabody Mountains, 1.9 mi. W of Harrison Point on Portland Canal, 60 mi ESE of Ketchikan, Coast Mts.
History: Local name reported in 1961 by U.S. Forest Service (USFS); derived from Reef Island.
Mount Raatikainen (Summit), Hoonah-Angoon County, Alaska (57.9310985, -136.2743202)
Description: On Chichagof Island, 4.8 km (3 mi) SW of Pelican, Alex. Arch.
History: Named for the boat of Kalle Raatikainen (1888-1959), fisherman and businessman, who founded the village of Pelican, by locating a cold storage fish plant there in 1938.
Mesa Verde (Populated Place), Riverside County, California (33.6058577, -114.7310717)
Description: Located in sec 36,T6S,R21E, San Bernardino Meridian
History: Named originally Nicholls Warm Springs for A E Nicholls, who in 1949 filed a re-subdivision plat in the Palos Verde Valley. In 1964, the townsite was sold and the name Mesa Verde came into local use (Riverside County, California Place Names; Gunther, 1984).
Burnt Island Creek (Stream), Kenai Peninsula County, Alaska (60.9363889, -149.9147222)
Description: on NW end of Kenai Peninsula, flows NW to Chickaloon Bay, 10 mi. WNW of Hope, Cook Inlet Low. 2 miles long.
History: Local name published in 1952 by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Name derived from nearby Burnt Island.
Cripple Creek Mountains (Range), Yukon-Koyukuk (CA) County, Alaska (63.55, -156)
Description: in group in Kuskokwim Mts., 17 mi. NW of Page Mtn. and 50 mi. NW of Medfra, Kilbuck-Kuskokwim Mts.
History: Local name reported in 1913 by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
Town of Seekonk (Civil), Bristol County, Massachusetts (41.8377961, -71.3174459)
Description: Located 12 mi W of Taunton; Bristol County (US-T121).
History: Settled in 1636 and incorporated as a town in 1812. Derived from the Indian words 'seski' (black) and 'Honk' (goose) and applied by them to the wild geese which frequented the shores and lakes (MA-T1).
Joaquin Spring (Spring), Fresno County, California (36.3151505, -120.4531699)
Description: Located in sec 33,T18S,R14E, Mount Diablo Meridian
History: This spring was originally known as Valenzuela Spring until about 1950. The spring is named for Joaquin Murietta, an California bandit who used this region as a rendevous and hideout around 1850. (US-T131/Joaquin Murrieta & His Horse Gangs/p562)
Duranzo Creek (Stream), Nacogdoches County, Texas (31.369075, -94.4424259)
Description: In the Angelina National Forest, heading at the junction of Morton Creek and Martin Creek at about 0.4 mi NE of Etoile and normally flowing generally SW to the Sam Rayburn Reservoir.
History: After completion of the McGee Bend Dam this stream was shortened approximately 1 mile in length.
Marconi Slough (Stream), Fairbanks North Star County, Alaska (64.7993674, -147.9164719)
Description: distributary, flows SW from Chena River to Tanana River, 5.5 mi. SW of Fairbanks, Tanana Low.
History: So named for the inventor of the the telegraph, Guglielmo Marconi, 1874-1937, because the Fairbanks-Nenana telegraph line followed the  right bank of stream. The name is published on recent U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) maps.
Jenson Creek (Stream), Yukon-Koyukuk (CA) County, Alaska (63.6666667, -159.3927778)
Description: flows SE to Yukon River, 2 mi. S of Bullfrog I. and 45 mi. SE  of Unalakleet, Nulato Hills.
History: Local name reported in 1949 by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS).
Gartina Creek (Stream), Hoonah-Angoon (CA) County, Alaska (58.0944444, -135.4202778)
Description: on N part of Chichagof I., flows S to Port Frederick, 1.4 mi. SE of Hoonah, Alex. Arch. 7 miles long.
History: Local name published in 1951 by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
Cue Creek (Stream), Northwest Arctic County, Alaska (65.9816667, -162.9497222)
Description: flows NE to Inmachuk River, 26 mi. NE of Imuruk Lake, Seward Peninsula High. 5 miles long.
History: Prospectors name reported in 1901 by D. L. Reaburn (in Mendenhall, 1902, pl.4a), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
Louis Lake (Lake), Yukon-Koyukuk (CA) County, Alaska (65.223264, -157.0262617)
Description: 5 mi. NE of Bucket Lake and 26 mi. SW of Roundabout Mtn.,  Koyukuk Low.
History: Local name obtained at Huslia by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in 1954 or 1955.
Barter Island (Island), North Slope County, Alaska (70.1180556, -143.6666667)
Description: On the Arctic coast E of Arey Island. On coast of Beaufort Sea between Arey and Kaktovick Lagoons, 62 mi. NW of Demarcation Point, Arctic Plain.
History: On August 4, 1826, Sir John Franklin (1828, p. 146),  assuming it part of the mainland, applied the name "Point Manning" to the E point of this island. Franklin's original "Barter Island" was renamed "Arey Island" by Leffingwell (1919, p. 93), because local usage had applied the name Barter Island to the above location. John Simpson's native map dated 1855, shows "Tungak island," and on what appears to be present-day Manning  Point the Eskimo name "Nu-wu-ak Point" is shown with the note "the place of barter." this is probably the source of the name Barter Island. Leffingwell gives the Eskimo name for the island as "Kaktoavik" meaning "seining place."  Vilhjalmur Stefansson spells this name "Kaaktovik." See Arey Island,  Kaktovik Lagoon, and Manning Point.
April Creek (Stream), North Slope County, Alaska (68.0405556, -154.495)
Description: heads at Kutuk Pass, flows NW to Killik River, 11 mi. SW of junction of Easter Creek, Brooks Range. 20 miles long.
History: So named by the 1924 U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) expedition, because they descended this stream in April; shown on fieldsheet by Gerald FitzGerald.
Kooku Beach (Beach), Nome (CA) County, Alaska (63.0697222, -169.5397222)
Description: 6.3 mi. N of Kialegak Point, extends SW on Tapaghtalghee Bay on the SE coast of Saint Lawrence Island.
History: Eskimo name recommended by the Savoonga village Council and reported in 1949 by Major H. B. Allen, U.S. Air Force (USAF).
Atkins Island (Island), Aleutians East County, Alaska (55.0575, -159.3066667)
Description: in Shumagin Island NE of Little Koniuji I., Aleutian Range. 2 miles long.
History: Named about 1880 by W. H. Dall, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS), for the fishing schooner Minnie G. Atkins.
Mount Miller (Summit), Yakutat County, Alaska (60.4625261, -142.3009498)
Description: near W end of Barkley Ridge, 13 mi. NW of Mount Leeper and 110 mi. NW of Yakutat, Chugach Mts.
History: Name reported by F. H. Moffit (1914, pl. 1), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), for a  prospector who accompanied James Barkley on his trip across this area in  1906 or possibly 1905 (Moffit, 1918, p. 77).
Zapad Head (Cliff), Aleutians West (CA) County, Alaska (52.0391667, 178.0919444)
Description: on NW coast of Segula I., Aleutian Islands.
History: From the Russian word for "west." This name was reported  by personnel of the U.S.S. Oglala, and published on a 1935 chart of the U.S.S. Navy Hydrographic
Buck Creek (Stream), Copper River County, Alaska (62.8461111, -143.2941667)
Description: in Mentasta Mts., flows NW to Little Tok River, 12 mi. SE of Mentasta Pass, Alaska Range. 12 miles long.
History: So named in 1902 by F. C. Schrader, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), because of the dense growth of "buck brush" in its valley.
Duckling Lake (Lake), Kenai Peninsula County, Alaska (60.7434967, -150.5546703)
Description: on Kenzi Peninsula SE of Kayak Lake, 4 mi. N of Swan Lake and 28 mi. NE of Kenai, Cook Inlet Low. 0.6 mile long.
History: Named about 1963 by officials of Kenai National Moose Range, for administrative purposes.
Kelley Reservoir (Reservoir), Modoc County, California (41.5268992, -120.6920071)
Description: 2.9 km (1.8 mi) east of Essex Reservoir and 7.9 km (4.9 mi) southwest of Big Sage Dam.  (US-T121)
History: Named for Silas B Kelley who built the dam in 1919-1920.  (US-T121)
False Channel Bay (Bay), Hoonah-Angoon (CA) County, Alaska (57.5166667, -134.5458333)
Description: at NE end of Sillwater Anchorage, in Kootznahoo Inlet, on Admiralty I., 1.5 mi. NE of Angoon, Alex. Arch. 0.5 mile wide.
History: Named in 1869 by Commander R. W. Meade, U.S. Navy (USN); published in 1881 on Hydrographic Chart 882. The name does not appear on recent charts.
Goodnews Mining Camp (Populated Place), Bethel (CA) County, Alaska (58.9261111, -161.73)
Description: N of junction of Platinum and Squirrel Creeks, 2 mi. S of Red Mtn.  and 25 mi. NE of Cape Newenham, Kilbuck-Kuskokwim Mts.
History: Named for the Goodnews Mining Co.; name published in 1950 by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). This semi-permanent settlement was the largest mining camp in the  district in 1940. The camp was established about 1934 when large-scale  operations in minin g of platinum-bearing deposits in this area began.  (Mertie, 1940, p. 57).
Hot Springs Creek (Stream), Yukon-Koyukuk (CA) County, Alaska (65.1825, -154.9094444)
Description: flows W to Melozitna River 40 mi. W of Birches, Kokrines-Hodzana High. 30 miles long.
History: Descriptive name reported in 1915 by Waring (1917, fig. 12), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
Willow Waters (Lake), Indian River County, Florida (27.7907773, -80.5010394)
Description: 3 acres; located 0.4 mi. E of the South Prong Saint Sebastian River, along the W side of State Route 505, 1.5 mi. S of Sebastian Municipal Airport; Sec 14, T31S, R38E, Tallahassee Mer.
History: named for willow trees found nearby
Mount Martin (Summit), Lake and Peninsula County, Alaska (58.1691377, -155.3562285)
Description: In Katmai National Park and Preserve, on the Alaska Peninsula, 17 mi SW of Mount Katmai, Aleutian Range. NOTE: BGN research form (1966) mistakenly recorded longitude at 152° West; corrected to 155° West.
History: Named in 1919 by R. F. Griggs, National Geographic Society, for George C. Martin, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), who wrote the first authoritative report of the 1912 eruption of Mount Katmai.
Baby Pass (Channel), Aleutians East County, Alaska (53.9888889, -166.0852778)
Description: between Unalga I. and Baby Islands., in Fox Islands., Aleutian Islands. 1 mile wide.
History: Local name; recorded by J. J. Gilbert, commander of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS), steamer Pathfinder during 1900-01.
Tangik Island (Island), Aleutians East County, Alaska (54.1419444, -165.4844444)
Description: 1 mi. SE of Akun I., one of Krenitzin Islands., Aleutian Islands.
History: Aleut name published by Captain Tebenkov (1852, map 26),  Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), as "O(strov) Tangik," which, according to R. H. Geoghegan, means "island." U.S. Bureau of Fisheries (USBF) proposed the name "Waverly."
Bliss Brook (Stream), Bristol County, Massachusetts (41.8834337, -71.2544948)
Description: Heads at 415410N0711652W, flows SE to the West Branch Palmer River 2.2 mi S of Briggs
History: Surname of a family, the earliest being Thomas Bliss who signed a 1644 covenant and Jonathan Bliss who gave an acre of land for a meeting house in 1717.
Akoviknak Mountain (Summit), North Slope County, Alaska (68.1976899, -165.9942819)
Description: Trends NNW to SSE just E of Akoviknak Lagoon and 4.2 mi NNW of Cape Thompson, Arctic Slope.
History: An Eskimo name reported to mean "one that resembles a White Whale." The name alludes to bumps on the whale's head represented by large boulders on the ridge according to W. O. Pruitt, University of Alaska, in 1962. Project Chariot personnel reported the name as "Ahviknuk" in 1962.
Tuklak (historical) (Populated Place), Bethel (CA) County, Alaska (61.4833333, -160.45)
Description: on right bank of Kuskokwim River, between Kwigalok and Uknavik, below Yukon-Kuskokwim Portage
History: Former Indian Village or camp recorded in 1879 as "Tookhlagamute," population 92, by E. W. Nelson, U. S. Signal Service, and reported by Ivan Petroff in the 1880 Census.
Letnikof Cove (Bay), Haines County, Alaska (59.1772222, -135.3969444)
Description: on SW coast of Chikat Peninsula, 1.6 mi. N of Kochu I., in Chilkat  Inlet, 19 mi. SW of Skagway; Coast Mts.
History: named "B(ukhta) Letnikov," meaning "Letnikov Cove," on the  1848 Russian Hydrographic Dept. Chart 1396. Letnikoff Cove by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) in the 1883 Coast Pilot (p. 197).
Cronin Island (Island), Kenai Peninsula County, Alaska (59.4797222, -151.5188889)
Description: one of Herring Is., at NE entrance to Kasitsna Bay, 7 mi. NE of Seldovia, Chugach Mts. 0.3 mile long.
History: Local name published by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in 1951.
English Bay (Bay), Aleutians West (CA) County, Alaska (57.1416667, -170.3216667)
Description: On the SW coast of Saint Paul Island; in the Pribilof Islands. 1.5 miles wide.
History: According to Elliott (1881, Saijt Paul notes), this bay was so named because a "large British vessel" was wrecked here, on a reef, in 1847, as it was coming in to anchor off Zapadni Point.
Hibberd Run (Stream), Chester County, Pennsylvania (39.9826095, -75.4707561)
Description: Heads 0.3 km (0.2 mi) W of the community of Whitehorse, then under Plumsock Road, to join Okehocking Run.
History: Named for Jolen Hibberd (1699-1766), the first of many family members who settled in south-central Willistown Township.
Floyd County (Civil), Floyd County, Georgia (34.2631627, -85.2142786)
Description: Located in northwestern Georgia along the boundary with Alabama, 96 km (60 mi) northwest of Atlanta; County Seat:  Rome.
History: Established 3 December 1832, named for General John Floyd (1769-1839) of South Carolina.  He served as a soldier and US Congressman.  (GA-T21/p78)
South Crillon Glacier (Glacier), Hoonah-Angoon County, Alaska (58.6312967, -137.281624)
Description: in Glacier Bay National Monument, heads in Fairweather Range,  trends WSW to Crillon Lake, 79 mi. WNW of Hoonah, St. Elias Mts.
History: Name published by members of the Harvard-Dartmouth  Expedition, 1933-34 (Washburn and Goldthwait, 1936, map).
Fox Bay (Bay), Lake and Peninsula County, Alaska (59.7891667, -154.3486111)
Description: on N shore of Iliamna Lake between Chekok and Knutson Bays, 19 mi. E of Iliamna, Aleutian Range. 1.5 miles wide.
History: Local name pubished in 1954 by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
Brazos River (Stream), Brazoria County, Texas (28.8758063, -95.3782747)
Description: The longest river in Texas; heads at the confluence of Salt Fork Brazos River and Double Mountain Fork, near the eastern boundary of Stonewall County.  Flows 840 miles across Texas to its mouth on the Gulf of Mexico, 2 miles south of Freeport in Brazoria County (The Handbook of Texas). Brazo means arm in Mexico, so figuratively speaking a brazo in refering to a stream means ab arn if a river.  Lopez, Barry, and Gwartney, Debra (eds.), 2006, Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape: Trinity University Press, San Antonio, TX, pg 49.
History: The name of the stream is derived from Los Brazos de Dios, "the arms of God."
Turkey Gobbler Rapid (Rapids), Yavapai County, Arizona (34.4261388, -111.7790369)
Description: Located in the Verde River in Beaver Creek Ranger District (Coconino NF) and Verde Ranger District (Prescott NF), approximately 1.3 km (0.8 mi) N of the ford at Gap Creek.
History: Named is whimsical, suggesting that incompetent "turkeys" may be "gobbled" up by this rapid.
Little Rose Island (Island), Sitka County, Alaska (57.4594444, -135.5475)
Description: in Peril Strait, 0.5 mi. NE of Rapids Point, off NW coast of Baranof I., Alex. Arch.
History: Named in 1884 by Commander J. B. Coghlan, U.S. Navy (USN); published by  U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) on Chart 727.
Aniakchak Bay (Bay), Lake and Peninsula County, Alaska (56.7089274, -157.4576264)
Description: Faces ESE from the mouth of Aniakchak River, on theS shore of Alaska Peninsula, 8 mi SW of Cape Kunmik, Alaska Range. 8 miles wide.
History: Shown as "Baie Amah-chack" by Admiral von Krusenstern (1826, map20), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN). The Russian Hydrography Department shows this native name as "Zal[iv] Aniakshak" in 18476 on Chart 1379; "Aniakchak Bay" appears on an 1890 U.S. Bureau of Fisheries (USBF) chart.
Boulder Creek (Stream), Juneau County, Alaska (58.5438889, -134.7819444)
Description: flows SE to Eagle River, 2.4 mi. SW of 1962 terminus of Eagle  Glacier and 21 mi. NW of Juneau, Coast Mts.;
History: Descriptive local name first recorded in 1900 on a placer claim by D. J. Stamp (DeArmond, 1957, p. 8). The name was published by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in 1912 (Knopf, pls. 1, 2, and 5).
Bear Creek (Stream), Yukon-Koyukuk (CA) County, Alaska (65.6686111, -145.2858333)
Description: flows NE joins Westover Creek to form Rock Creek, 12 mi. NNE of  Porcupine Dome and 36 mi. WSW of Circle, Yukon-Tanana High.
History: Prospectors' name reported in 1954 or 1955 by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)  topographers.
Enright Creek (Stream), Denali County, Alaska (0, 0)
Description: flows NE to Niukluk River, between Bear River and Holyoke Creek  near Council, about 32 mi. NE of Solomon, Seward Peninsula High.
History: Prospectors' name reported on the 1900 "Map of Nome Peninsula" by J. M. Davidson and B. D. Blakeslee. This stream cannot be precisely located on current maps.
Binajoaksmiut (historical) (Populated Place), Bethel (CA) County, Alaska (59.8502778, -166.5058333)
Description: on left bank of mouth of Binajoaksmiut River, 12 mi. NW of Cape Mendenhall, Nunivak I.
History: Eskimo fishing village, now abandoned; reported in 1932 by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS). name as "Paimiut" meaning "river mouth people."
Capaloa (historical) (Populated Place), North Slope County, Alaska (68.6458333, -166.2208333)
Description: site of an Eskimo village on Chukchi Sea Coast, at Kapaloak  Creek, 0.5 mi. SE of Cape Dyer, Arctic Slope.
History: Eskimo name obtained by J. B. Driggs, Point Hope  missionary, and reported in 1904 by Collier (1906, p. 44) who wrote "An abandoned native settlement here bears the name Capaloa***." See Cape Dyer  and Kapaloak Creek.
Tobin Pass (Gap), Yukon-Koyukuk (CA) County, Alaska (67.5019444, -148.2783333)
Description: between drainage basins of Big Creek and North Fork Chandalar  River, 6 mi. E of Chandalar, Brooks Range
History: Locally named for August L. Tobin, who was a prospector in  this area from 1898 to 1919.
La Perouse Glacier (Glacier), Hoonah-Angoon County, Alaska (58.5565913, -137.1915703)
Description: In Glacier Bay National Monument, heads on S slope of Mount  Crillon, trends S to Gulf of Alaska, 8 mi. NW of Icy Point, 71 mi. NW of  Hoonah, St Elias Mts.
History: Named by W. H. Dall, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS), in 1874 for Jean Francois de Galaup de la Perouse, 1741-88, a French navigator who explored the coast in this area in 1786. The name was published in the 1883 Alaska Coast Pilot (p. 201). La Perouse was a member of the French Navy, and in 1782 was sent to Canada to attack the British forts on Hudson Bay. In 1785 he was given command of an expedition of exploration by Louis XVI. With two ships, the LaBoussole and L'Astrolabe, he sailed in 1786 from the Sandwich Island to the Alaskan coast in the neighborhood of Mount St. Elias, where he mapped the coast and studied the Indians. On the way home from his explorations his two ships and crew were lost. Parts of his ships were found in 1827 on Santa Cruz I. in the New Hebrides in the South Pacific.
Florence Creek (Stream), Yukon-Koyukuk (CA) County, Alaska (67.1258333, -150.8941667)
Description: flows S to North Fork Koyukuk River, 7 mi. NE of mouth of Middle Fork Koyukuk River and 28.5 mi. SW of Wiseman, Brooks Range. 15 miles long.
History: Named for his daughter, Florence, by August L. Tobin, who prospected in the Wiseman region from 1897 to 1918; name reported in 1899 by T. G. Gerdine, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
Sadlerochit River (Stream), North Slope County, Alaska (70.0227778, -144.4355556)
Description: Heads in Franklin Mts. at 691500N, 1452100W, flowing NE and then N to Camden Bay, 18 mi SW of Barter Island, Arctic Plain.
History: Eskimo name reported in 1912 by Leffingwell (1919, p. 99) to mean "the area outside of the mountains." Probably the same as March's Barter River. It appears on Surg. John Simpson's native map, 1855, as "Shud-ta-ro-shik."
Tappan Falls (Falls), Lemhi County, Idaho (44.8788889, -114.7494444)
Description: 6 ft. high falls; on the Middle Fork Salmon River in the Salmon-Challis National Forest/Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness, 0.6 miles W of the mouth of Cove Creek; Sec. 19, T18N, R15E, Boise Meridian
History: The name is associated with Tappan Gulch, which is named for Fred (1878-?) and Daisy Tappan (1908-1984), who homesteaded nearby.
Gravel Creek (Stream), Matanuska-Susitna County, Alaska (61.7797222, -148.0011111)
Description: heads at glacier, flows N to Matanuska River, 38 mi. NE of Palmer, Chugach Mts. 11 miles long.
History: Local name reported in 1913 by R. H. Sargent, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
Los Médanos (Ridge), Kings County, California (35.9837862, -119.963809)
Description: On the southeastern end of the Kettleman Hills, 1.9 km (1.2 mi) northeast of Broken Hill and 2.4 km (1.5 mi) south of Kettleman Station. (US-T121)
History: Descriptive name meaning "sand dunes" in reference to the valley side of the ridge that is covered with sand dunes. (US-T121)
Unalga Pass (Channel), Aleutians East County, Alaska (53.9511111, -166.205)
Description: between Unalga and Unalaska Islands., Aleutian Islands.
History: Aleut name derived from Unalga I. and reported by Captain Lutke (1836, p. 283), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), as "Detroit d'Ounalga" or "Ounalga Strait." This feature was also published by Father Veniaminov (1840, v. 1, p. 19) as  "P(roliv) Unalginskiy" or "Unalga Strait." It was called "Canal de Camacho" by Martinez about July 22, 1788, in honor of one of his pilots (Wagner, 1937, p. 437).