| Location Type | # of Places | Location Definition |
| Airport | 12 | Manmade facility maintained for the use of aircraft (airfield, airstrip, landing field, landing strip). |
| Bridge | 1 | manmade structure carrying a trail, road, or other transportation system across a body of water or depression (causeway, overpass, trestle). |
| Building | 5 | a manmade structure with walls and a roof for protection of people and (or) materials, but not including church, hospital, or school. |
| Channel | 2 | linear deep part of a body of water through which the main volume of water flows and is frequently used as aroute for watercraft (passage, reach, strait, thoroughfare, throughfare). |
| Civil | 4 | a political division formed for administrative purposes (borough, county, municipio, parish, town, township). |
| Crossing | 1 | a place where two or more routes of transportation form a junction or intersection (overpass, underpass). |
| Dam | 19 | water barrier or embankment built across the course of a stream or into a body of water to control and (or) impound the flow of water (breakwater, dike, jetty). |
| Locale | 127 | place at which there is or was human activity; it does not include populated places, mines, and dams (battlefield, crossroad, camp, farm, ghost town, landing, railroad siding, ranch, ruins, site, station, windmill). |
| Mine | 22 | place or area from which commercial minerals are or were removed from the Earth; not including oilfield (pit, quarry, shaft). |
| Park | 12 | place or area set aside for recreation or preservation of a cultural or natural resource and under some form of government administration; not including National or State forests or Reserves (national historical landmark, national park, State park, wilde? |
| Pillar | 10 | vertical, standing, often spire shaped, natural rock formation (chimney, monument, pinnacle, pohaku, rock tower).
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| Pop place | 106 | (populated place) place or area with clustered or scattered buildings and a permanent human population (city, settlement, town, village). |
| Post office | 17 | (post office) an official facility of the U.S. Postal Service used for processing and distributing mail and other postal material. |
| Reservoir | 17 | artificially impounded body of water (lake, tank). |
| School | 8 | building or group of buildings used as an institution for study, teaching, and learning (academy, college, high school, university). |
| Tower | 5 | a manmade structure, higher than its diameter, generally used for observation, storage, or electronic transmission. |
| Trail | 12 | route for passage from one point to another; does not include roads or highways (jeep trail, path, ski trail). |
| Basin | 12 | relatively low area or natural depression enclosed by higher land (cirque, pit, sink, amphitheater). |
| Bay | 16 | shoreline or indentation of a coastline enclosing a part of a body of water; a body of water partly surrounded by land (arm, bight, cove, estuary, gulf, inlet, sound). |
| Beach | 2 | the sloping shore along a body of water that is washed by waves or tides and is usually covered by sand or gravel (coast, shore, strand). |
| Bend | 1 | curve in the course of a stream and (or) the land within the curve; a curve in a linear body of water (bottom, loop, meander). |
| Cape | 25 | projection of land extending into a body of water (lea, neck, peninsula, point). |
| Cliff | 3 | very steep or vertical slope (bluff, crag, head, headland, nose, palisades, precipice, promontory, rim, rimrock). |
| Flat | 54 | relative level area within a region of greater relief (clearing, glade, playa). |
| Forest | 4 | bounded area of woods, forest, or grassland under the administration of a political agency (see "woods") (national forest, national grasslands, State forest). |
| Gap | 7 | low point or opening between hills or mountains or in a ridge or mountain range (col, notch, pass, saddle, water gap, wind gap). |
| Gut | 1 | relatively small coastal waterway connecting larger bodies of water or other waterways (creek, inlet, slough). |
| Island | 15 | area of dry or relatively dry land surrounded by water or low wetland (archipelago, atoll, cay, hammock, hummock, isla, isle, key, moku, rock). |
| Lake | 37 | natural body of inland water (backwater, lac, lagoon, laguna, pond, pool, resaca, waterhole). |
| Range | 6 | chain of hills or mountains; a somewhat linear, complex mountainous or hilly area (cordillera, sierra). |
| Ridge | 80 | elevation with a narrow, elongated crest which can be part of a hill or mountain (crest, cuesta, escarpment, hogback, lae, rim, spur). |
| Slope | 2 | a gently inclined part of the Earth's surface (grade, pitch). |
| Spring | 51 | place where underground water flows naturally to the surface of the Earth (seep). |
| Stream | 255 | linear body of water flowing on the Earth's surface (anabranch, awawa, bayou, branch, brook, creek, distributary, fork, kill, pup, rio, river, run, slough). |
| Summit | 139 | prominent elevation rising above the surrounding level of the Earth's surface; does not include pillars, ridges, or ranges (ahu, berg, bald, butte, cerro, colina, cone, cumbre, dome, head, hill, horn, knob, knoll, mauna, mesa, mesita, mound, mount, mount? |
| Swamp | 1 | poorly drained wetland, fresh or saltwater, wooded or grassy, possibly covered with open water (bog, cienega, marais, marsh, pocosin). |
| Valley | 102 | linear depression in the Earth's surface that generally slopes from one end to the other (barranca, canyon, chasm, cove, draw, glen, gorge, gulch, gulf, hollow, ravine). |
| Woods | 1 | small area covered with a dense growth of trees; does not include an area of trees under the administration of a political agency (see "forest"). |