The name “Nazi Creek” will no longer be used for federal databases or maps. On Thursday, the Domestic Names Committee for the ...

Even within each individual name map, the results are not always as straightforward as they seem. In the 1992 map, Missouri is marked Jessica, while Iowa, its neighbor to the north, is marked Ashley.

The two names he put on his 1538 world map are the ones we've used ever since: North America and South America. Ringmann didn't have long to live after finishing the Introduction to Cosmography.

Federal officials changed the names of two natural features in Alaska's Aleutian Islands on Thursday, replacing arbitrary and ...

First Street and other numbered streets in Louisville were designed to be perpendicular to the Ohio River. Here's how those ...

The country name "Israel" does not appear on online maps on the Chinese search engine Baidu or the Alibaba-backed maps app Amap, though surrounding countries' names are clearly shown.

CITYWIDE — NYC’S NEW HONORARY STREET NAMES MAP allows people interested in local history to find names, history and biographical information for streets that have been co-named by the City ...

In the map below, streets in green were once named for Confederate figures but have been renamed. Streets in red and orange are ones identified by the committee.