American place-names
Subtitle: a concise and selective dictionary for the continental United States of America.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1970
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 550
Description: This work includes three categories of place-name information: well-known places; repeated names which appear in many localities; and unusual names. Following each of the 12,000 entries is the name derivation, the state where pertinent and explication with historical, geographical and/or folk interpretations.