GNIS
Official US geographic place-name database.
| Publisher | U.S. Geological Survey (U.S. Board on Geographic Names) |
|---|---|
| Coverage | United States
Bounding box (EPSG:4326): -179.2, 17.8, -64.5, 71.4 |
| Licence | LicenseRef-Public-Domain
Publisher's wording: Public domain |
| Themes | us-federal-names, open-data-sources |
| Update cadence | every other month |
| Formats | Not stated |
| Status | active |
| Last verified | 2026-11-05 |
| Notes | Not stated |
| Recipe | Not stated |
| Related | Not stated |
Access endpoints
| Type | URL | Layer or index | Auth | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
http | https://www.usgs.gov/us-board-on-geographic-names/download-gnis-data | Not stated | none | Not stated |
download | https://prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com/StagedProducts/GeographicNames/Topical/PopulatedPlaces_National_Text.zip | Not stated | none | One of the national extracts (pipe-delimited text); DomesticNames and FullModel (GDB, GPKG) by state are in the same staged products folder. |