Wreckhouse winds. Snow squalls off Lake Huron. Colorado lows. Keeping track of the weather is as much a geography lesson as anything. Place names, or toponyms, are integral in our daily lives. Just ...

Place names are more than just labels on a map. They influence how people learn about the world around them and perceive their place in it. Names can send messages and suggest what is and isn’t valued ...

Imagine scaling a peak so intimidating that it was called El Capitan, a name ringing of conquest, conferred by the Mariposa Battalion, an Indian-killing militia, in the mid-1800s. Imagine the rush of ...

While traveling through Michigan this summer, you may notice locations with names that sound more like they belong in France, rather than an American state. The area that became present-day Michigan ...

Place names are far more than just a name assigned to a position on the map. They are linguistic archives that hold data ...

People with an interest in geography or Pacific Northwest history are coming up with replacement names for dozens of places around the region that currently have a name considered derogatory. The U.S.

The Social Security Administration (SSA) keeps data on the popularity of baby names each year, going back to 1900. These ...

Baby names that remind you of far-flung, foreign or familiar places — like cities, states or countries — have a lot of benefits. "Names inspired by places are a perfect balancing act for parents who ...

Over 30 places in 15 California counties will be getting new names by Jan. 1, 2025, replacing offensive slurs that still mar sites around the state, the California Natural Resources Agency said Friday ...

CHEYENNE - The U.S. government has joined a ski resort and others that have quit using a racist term for a Native American woman by renaming hundreds of peaks, lakes, streams and other geographical ...