Nevada State Board on Geographic Names Bibliography

Ansari, Mary B., Carson City Place Names: The Names of Old Ormsby County, Nevada. Reno, NV : Camp Nevada, 1995.

Ansari, Mary B., Place Names of Lyon County, Nevada. Reno, NV : Camp Nevada, 2001.

Ansari, Mary B., Place Names of Douglas County, Nevada. Reno, NV : Camp Nevada, c2007.

Ansari, Mary B., Comstock Place Names, the Names of Storey County, Nevada. Camp Nevada Monograph No. 7. Reno: Camp Nevada, 1986. (Names, Geographical - Nevada. Names, Geographical - Storey County. Storey County - History.)

Ansari, Mary B., Mines and Mills of the Comstock Region Western Nevada. Reno: Camp Nevada, 1989.

Averett, Walter R., Directory of Southern Nevada Place Names. Revised edition. Las Vegas: Printed by the Author, 1962. Glendale, California: Privately Printed by Arthur H. Clark, 1962. Elliot & Poulton. (Names, Geographical - Nevada - Lincoln County. Names, Geographical - Nevada - Clark County. Clark County - History. Lincoln County - History.)

Carlson, Helen Swisher, Mine Names on the Nevada Comstock Lode. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1956. Reprinted from Western Folklore 15 no. 1 (January 1956).

Carlson, Helen Swisher, Names of Mines on the Comstock. Unpublished M.A. thesis. University of Nevada, 1955.

Carlson, Helen Swisher, Nevada Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1974. (Names, Geographical - Nevada.)

Hasch, Vera Ellen, The Significance of the Nomenclature in Churchill, Douglas, Lyon, Ormsby and Story Counties. Thesis (B.A.)--University of Nevada, 1911. [UNR only]

Leigh, Rufus Wood, Nevada Place Names, Their Origin and Significance. Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1964. (Names, Geographical - Nevada)

Lekisch, Barbara, Tahoe Place Names: The Origin and History of Names in the Lake Tahoe Basin. Forward by Richard H. Dillon. Lafayette, CA: Great West Books, 1988.

McLane, Alvin Rae, Silent Cordilleras [The Mountain Ranges of Nevada]. Camp Nevada Monograph No. 4. Reno: Camp Nevada, 1978. (Mountain Ranges - Nevada. Names, Geographical - Nevada.)

McVaugh, Rogers and F.R. Fosberg, Index to the Geographical Names of Nevada. Work Projects Administration of Nevada, 1941. Flora of Nevada No. 29. Issued by the Division of Plant Exploration and Introduction, Bureau of Plant Industry, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Collaborator, University of Nevada.

Nevada Department of Highways, Directory of Geographic Names in Nevada. [Carson City: State Printing Office], 1971.

Ohmert, Audrey Winifred, “Significance of Nomenclature in Washoe County.” B. A thesis, University of Nevada, 1910. A study of county place names.

Patterson, Edna. Who Named It? History of Elko County Place Names, Elko: Elko Independent, 1964.

Rathbun, Daniel C.B., Nevada Military Place Names of the Indian wars and Civil War. Las Cruces, N.M.: Yucca Tree Press, c2001.

Shamberger, Hugh A., The Evolution of Nevada by Boundaries with Name Places. [Carson City, Nev.? : s.n.], 1945.