Minnesota is known as the "Land of Lakes", but that sobriquet would better fit Canada. Canada has so many lakes that just naming them takes a lot of work. Manitoba's innovative and morally commendable response was to nam...

Is it a creek, a run, a stream, or a brook? Or something else entirely? Across the contiguous United States, people use different names to describe small bodies of running water. Derek Watkins made this map showing t...

Native Names, the Interactive Map. Graphic: Oliver...  ...gy at UCLA, who wrote in his book Native American Placenames of the United States: LOLETA (Calif., Humboldt Co...