California Gazetteers

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. (.)

Sanchez, Nellie Van de Grift. Spanish and Indian Place Names of California. San Francisco, California: A.M. Robertson, 1930. (.)

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