Mapmakers used to put fake towns on their original maps to prevent plagiarism. Algoe, New York, was one that became real—kind ...
Create an account or log in to save stories. INTERVIEWER: Lots of place names in Minnesota come from Indigenous heritage. The name Minnesota itself, as you might know, comes from the Dakota word for ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clear County, Colo., had three roads using the word 'sq—' until May 2024, when officials renamed them. Tom Hellauer/Denver Gazette ...
On January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order titled “Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness” instructing the US Board on Geographic Names (BGN), a federal body ...
Geography has been part of President Trump’s agenda. His first day on the job, he signed an executive order changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and Denali, the highest peak ...
A portion of a new map showing Ojibwe place names and meanings on the eastern end of Lake Vermilion in northern Minnesota. The final map is a collaboration of the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa, the Ely ...
The racially motivated tragedy in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015, when a white supremacist murdered nine Black worshippers, and the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, ...