What America Calls Itself
I’ve been doing some hacking with the downloadable files available from the U.S. State and Topical Gazetteer page. Each of the 1,844,756 features in the Gazetteer has a “feature type” associated with it; here’s an interesting breakdown of the number of each feature in the 50 states:
| Feature Type | Count |
| stream | 230473 |
| ppl | 177600 |
| church | 177435 |
| school | 169010 |
| locale | 127043 |
| cemetery | 123395 |
| reservoir | 74722 |
| summit | 70143 |
| valley | 69776 |
| lake | 67664 |
| park | 57145 |
| dam | 56877 |
| building | 41478 |
| civil | 39026 |
| well | 38184 |
| spring | 35806 |
| mine | 32461 |
| po | 21782 |
| canal | 20419 |
| island | 20045 |
| airport | 19164 |
| tower | 16594 |
| cape | 16142 |
| ridge | 14958 |
| bay | 12750 |
| hospital | 10771 |
| flat | 10429 |
| trail | 10321 |
| gap | 8343 |
| crossing | 8175 |
| swamp | 7367 |
| bridge | 6047 |
| bar | 5807 |
| oilfield | 4852 |
| gut | 4547 |
| cliff | 4378 |
| basin | 4277 |
| channel | 4086 |
| bend | 2711 |
| range | 2394 |
| falls | 2333 |
| area | 2320 |
| beach | 2291 |
| pillar | 2025 |
| forest | 1273 |
| reserve | 1244 |
| glacier | 1091 |
| rapids | 1078 |
| military | 1017 |
| bench | 725 |
| tunnel | 688 |
| harbor | 663 |
| woods | 634 |
| levee | 513 |
| arroyo | 439 |
| arch | 436 |
| slope | 366 |
| plain | 295 |
| crater | 237 |
| lava | 166 |
| unknown | 141 |
| geyser | 117 |
| other | 35 |
| isthmus | 18 |
| sea | 12 |
| cave | 2 |
Sunday, September 4, 2005 - 1:31pm
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