In addition to googling US place names, may I suggest searching the USGS
Geographic Names Information System database
http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/ ?  Thanks for the interesting example of
a difficult geographic research question.

Karen Stuart




On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Jim Glanville <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Fellow List Members:
>
> The Virginia chapter of the "Atlas of Historical County Boundaries" is a
> welcome addition to our arsenal of on line resources for carrying out
> Virginia history research. The Atlas will no doubt provide good service when
> used in conjunction with other Virginia County resources such as Martha
> Hiden's "How Justice Grew" and the on-line county road order files provided
> by the Virginia Transportation Research Council.
>
<snip>

> The location of the boundary-defining Culbertson's Creek is not well
> settled. Mary Kegley (Kegley and Kegley 1980: 22) notes a land grant on
> Culbertson's Creek that does not mention the Greenbrier River. The
> Greenbrier River is near the Googlable Culbertson Creek in present-day
> Greenbrier County, West Virginia. This Greenbrier County Culbertson's Creek
> does not geographically fit the above language specifying the boundaries of
> Fincastle County.
>

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