Provided by Bartleby.com, the Columbia Gazetteer of North America is a collection of over 50,000 entries of places and features and is described as "far and away the most comprehensive encyclopedia of the geographical places and features of the region." Users can search the database by keyword and by region or browse the entire collection alphabetically. The entries contain brief descriptions,...

Yale's The Peabody Museum has expanded and enhanced their collections gopher with access to 60,084 records from the Anthropology Division. Also search for any labeled feature appearing on topographic maps released by the US Geological Survey; there are 1,233,933 records to peruse from across the USA, covering populated places, parks, lakes, mountains.