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Several helpful guides to California place names have been published. Two of the most useful are:
Gudde, Erwin Gustav. California Place Names. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1969. (FHL book 979.4 E2ge.)
Sanchez, Nellie Van de Grift. Spanish and Indian Place Names of California. San Francisco, California: A.M. Robertson, 1930. (Family History Library film 1320727 item 2.)
Web Sites
http://library.humboldt.edu/%7Erls/geospatial/calmaps.htm#gazetteers
http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/gazetteer/dgie/DGIE_website/gaz_links.htm
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/MapCollections.html
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