E.g.,
Muir;
Muir%;
%Muir%
County Name
The Jepson Place Name Index contains approximately 41,000 place names found
on botanical collection labels. Over a period of approximately 50 years,
staff and associates of the Jepson Herbarium have researched these place
names using maps in libraries and archives at Berkeley and elsewhere. The
JPNI has been maintained by the Jepson Herbarium as a card file for
reference purposes. The SMASCH project has entered all the data from these
cards into the SMASCH database. SMASCH staff added the feature type for each
locality using the definitions contained in the US Geological Service
Geographic Names Information System. The form above allows searches by place
name or county or both. Searches are case insensitive; the SQL wild-card (%) is recognized. A complete record from the SMASCH database is returned for
each record matching the search. A complete record contains the place name,
county, feature type, a more detailed description of the location of
this place name on one or more maps, and the map source.
If you wish to provide corrections, comments, or additions, please contact:
Margriet Wetherwax
Jepson Herbarium
1001 Valley Life Sciences Building #2465
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
margriet@berkeley.edu
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