Twenty-Fifth Annual
Conference on Geographic Names
Roger Payne, Conference Chairman
Hyatt Regency, Inner Harbor

Baltimore, Maryland
July 23--27, 2002

Co-Hosted by the
U.S. Board on Geographic Names
Domestic Names Committee
Roger Payne, Executive Secretary

Sponsored by the
Council of Geographic Names Authorities
T. Wayne Furr, Executive Secretary

Agenda

Tuesday July 23
    3:00 — 6:00 p.m.                    Registration: Second Floor Lobby, Hyatt Regency
    6:30 p.m.                                Welcome Reception: Harborview Room, Hyatt Regency

Wednesday July 24 

All Meetings and Presentations were held in Constellation Rooms C & D, Second Floor, Hyatt Regency, Inner Harbor

    9:00 a.m.                                Opening Remarks by Roger L. Payne, Conference Chair
                                                    Introduction of Staff; Logistics; Overview of Agenda

    9:15 a.m.                                Keynote speaker: The National Map: Topographic Mapping for the 21st Century
                                                   Barbara J. Ryan Associate Director for Geography. U.S. Geological Survey

    9:30 — 10:00a.m.                   An Introduction to Baltimore History and Geography
                                                   Michael Ratcliffe; U.S. Census Bureau

    10:00 — 10:30 a.m.                Break

    10:30 — 11:00 a.m.                An Overview of the Year’s Names Activities (State Names Authority Delegates)

    11:00 — 11:30 a.m.                Paper: Naming Our Streams and Creeks: Anne Arundel County Tidal Rivers Pilot Project
                                                             Peter Bergstrom; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

    11:30 a.m. — 12:00 noon       Paper: Names-Places, GIS and Preservation of Tribal Culture
                                                            John Hartman; Coeur d Alene Tribe

    12:00 noon — 1:30 p.m.         Lunch on your own

    1:30 — 2:20 p.m.                    Panel Discussion: Publishing a Placename Book
                                                   Moderator: Dr. Ren Vasiliev; Chair, Geography Department, SUNY Geneseo
                                                   Panel Members:
                                                       Dr. William Bright, University of Colorado
                                                       Bob Julyan, New Mexico Subcommittee on Geographic Names
                                                       Lewis McArthur, Oregon Geographic Names Board
                                                       Dr. Richard Randall, Executive Secretary Emeritus, U.S. Board on Geographic Names
                                                       Alan Rayburn, Executive Secretary Emeritus, Canadian Board on Geographical Names
                                                       Dr. Robert Rennick, Kentucky Geographic Names Committee

    2:20 — 2:45 p.m.                    Paper: How Far Does a Locality Name Extend? The Australian Experience of the
                                                              Importance of Legally Fixing Locality Boundaries
                                                              Dr. John Parker; Surveyor General Emeritus, Victoria, Australia

    2:45 — 3:15 p.m.                    Paper: Traveling Again in Shem Pete’s Alaska: The Reconstruction of Upper Inlet
                                                              Dena ‘ma Geography (Dr. James Kari; Professor Emeritus, Alaska Native
                                                              Language Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks)

    3:15 — 3:45 p.m.                    Break

    3:45 — 4:15 p.m.                    Paper: Native American Placenames (Dr. William Bright; Linguistics Professor
                                                              University of Colorado, and Colorado State Board on Geographic Names)

Thursday July 25

    7:30 — 9:00 a.m.                    Workshop: Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) Maintenance/Web-based
                                                                    Input/Edit Software (Robin Worcester; U.S. Geological Survey Geographic
                                                                    Names Office and Dwight Hughes, Chief Software Engineer, GNIS)

    9:00 — 9:20 a.m.                    Paper: The Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) and the Geographic Names Data
                                                             Theme of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (Bruce McKenzie; U.S. Geological
                                                             Survey, and Assistant Staff Director, FGDC; and Alison Kieman, Executive
                                                             Secretary, FGDC)

    9:20 - 9:40 a.m.                     Paper: Delaware Data and Map Integration Laboratory (Sandy Schenck; Chair, Delaware
                                                             State Mapping Advisory Committee and Delaware Geographic Names Committee)

    9:40 —10:00 a.m.                   Paper: Developing the Canadian Geographic Names System (Barbara MacIntosh;
                                                             Geographical Names Board of Canada)

    10:00—10:30 a.m.                  Break

    10:30 — 10:50 a.m.                Paper: GNIS and the Land View DVD (Jerry McFaul; U.S. Geological Survey)

    10:50 —12:00 noon                Domestic Names Committee Meeting I (Robert Hiatt; Chair, Domestic Names Committee)
                                                   Reports; “Anatomy of a Proposal”; Online Domestic Geographic Name Report

    12:00 — 1:30 p.m.                  Lunch on your own

    1:30 — 3:00 p.m.                    Domestic Names Committee Meeting II (Docket Review List)

    3:00 — 3:30 p.m.                    Break

    3:30 — 5:00 p.m.                    Review of U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN) “Principles, Policies, and Procedures:
                                                   Domestic Geographic Names” (PPP) (DNC staff)

                                                   Evening Free

 Friday July 26

    8:00 — 8:30 a.m.                    Business Meeting of the Toponymy Interest Group (TIG) (Formerly PLANSUS)
                                                   Dr. Grant Smith; President

    8:30 — 9:00 a.m.                    Paper: Place Names Derived from Chinook Jargon in the Pac Northwest
                                                             Dr. Grant Smith; Washington State Board on Geographic Names

    9:00 — 9:20 a.m.                    Paper: A Dual-Naming Strategy for Multi-Lingual Areas
                                                              Dr. André Lapierre; Chairman, Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa

    9:20 — 9:40 a.m.                    Paper: Geographic Name Challenges for the Desk User vs. the Field User
                                                              Leo Dillon; U.S. State Department, and Chair, U.S. Board on Geographic Names

    9:40 — 10:00 a.m.                  Paper: Some Observations from 30 Years in Toponymy
                                                              Dr. Robert Rennick; Kentucky Geographic Names Committee

    10:00 — 10:30 a.m.                Break

    10:30 —11:00 a.m.                 Panel Status Report: The “Squaw” and Derogatory Names Issue
                                                   Moderator: Lee Fleming, Bureau of Indian Affairs
                                                   Panel Members:
                                                       Glen Yakel, Minnesota Board on Geographic Names
                                                       Dr. Thomas Gasque, South Dakota Board on Geographic Names
                                                       Tim Norton, Arizona Board on Geographic Historic Names
                                                       John Hartman, Coeur d’Alene Tribe
                                                       Bonnie Gallahan, U.S. Geological Survey, American Indian Liaison, and FGDC

    11:00—12:00 a.m.                  Panel Discussion: Soliciting/Determining Local Opinion on Proposals
                                                   Moderator: Bob Julyan; New Mexico Subcommittee on Geographic Names
                                                   Panel Members:
                                                       Chick Fagan, National Park Service
                                                       Susan Tingley, Nevada Board on Geographic Names
                                                       Wayne Furr, Oklahoma Board on Geographic Names
                                                       Jennifer Runyon, BGN Domestic Names Committee Staff
                                                       Leslie Norton, Arizona Board on Geographic & Historic Names

    12:00 — 1:30 p.m.                  Lunch on your own

                                                   Executive Committee Luncheon: COGNA Business Meeting (Voting Delegates
                                                   only) Pratt/Calvert Room, Hyatt Regency

    1:30 — 1:50 p.m.                    Paper: Virginia in Maps: A New Atlas by the Library of Virginia
                                                              Marianne McKee; The Library of Virginia
                                                              and Virginia State Board on Geographic Names

    1:50 — 3:00 p.m.                    State/Federal Roundtable I

    3:00 — 3:20 p.m.                    Break

    3:20 — 4:45 p.m.                    State/Federal Roundtable II

    4:50 — 5:00 p.m.                    Invitation to COGNA 2003
                                                   Paul Veisze; California Advisory Committee on Geographic Names

    5:00 p.m.                                Review of Toponymic Tour Logistics

    6:00 p.m.                                Social Hour/Cash Bar

    7:00 p.m.                                Banquet Speaker: Where Is Watkins Point?
                                                                               Dr. Edward Papenfuse; Maryland State Archives

 
Saturday July 27                         Baltimore to Annapolis: A Toponymic Tour of the Chesapeake Bay

Our Toponymic Tour departed Baltimore's Inner Harbor at 8 on the tall ship "Clipper City." A discussion of the geography and history of the Chesapeake Bay was provided by Dr. Kent Mountford, Estuarine Ecologist and Environmental Historian, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, retired.

Refreshments and brunch was served on board.

We arrived in Annapolis with free time to explore. The group traveled by bus back to Baltimore Inner Harbor, with a tour through Baltimore’s Ethnic Neighborhoods with a description by Michael Ratcliffe, U.S. Census Bureau and Colleen Joyce, U.S. Census Bureau.