Reference Shelf: Geography and Travel
- The Census Bureau Gazetteer
is a collection of basic information about US places. It can also be used
to generate maps.
- Census
Bureau Reference Maps 1990-2000. This online source can be used
to establish the exact configuration of the geographical subdivisions used
in the Census Lookup, including; county, place, and census tract boundaries
for both the 1990 and 2000 decennial census's.
- Census
Bureau Thematic Maps. Based on 1990 decennial census information,
this site allows you to make customized maps at the national, state, county
and metropolitan area levels for approximately fifty categories of information.
- CIA
World Factbook consists of brief sketches of countries, including
location and maps, demographic and economic data, and a directory of current
governmental officials and political leaders.
- Country Studies,
from the Library of Congress, is a collection of book-length studies on individual
countries, written by multidisciplinary teams of social scientists.
- Telephone Directories on
the Web is an international clearinghouse for telephone
directories of all types, organized by region and type of directory.
- Area Decoder
covers telephone area codes and country codes world wide.
- Topographic Maps
for the entire United States--originally produced by the United States Geological
Survey (USGS)--are available online from Topozone. Searchable by state and
town, the resulting images can be formatted to scales of 1:25,000; 1:50,000;
1:100,000 or 1:200,000. A point and click capability allows the user to center
the map at any point.
- USA CityLink is a
gateway to Web pages on cities and towns around the country.