More Hlocations in Unlikely Places

US Place Names

Alaska

Feature Name:
Hlukkuhoan
Feature Type: locale
Description: in SE Alaska.
History Notes: Former Tlingit Indian town listed in Hodge (1907, p. 554)

BAE, as Laxq! uxo-an meaning: town where people do not sleep much.
State: Alaska
County: Undetermined
USGS 7.5' x 7.5' Map: Unknown

Texas

Feature Name: Hlavacek Lake Dam
Feature Type: dam
State: Texas
County: Milam
USGS 7.5' x 7.5' Map: Pettibone



And also:

Feature Name: Hlavacek Lake
Feature Type: reservoir
State: Texas
County: Milam
USGS 7.5' x 7.5' Map: Pettibone
Coordinates: 304818N @ 0970318W

Now these aren't eactly HL names -- but they were listed in the website.

Feature Name: HL and P South Houston Helistop
Feature Type: airport
Description: Facility is located 2 mi SE from South Houston


Feature Name: HLCX STRT Water Well
Feature Type: well
State: New Mexico
County: Santa Fe
USGS 7.5' x 7.5' Map: Santa Fe

Now, Here's a search I did of the

Geographic Names Database (GNDB)

You can go to this website and search by just plugging in
Hla, Hle, Hli, Hlo, Hlu, Hly and also Hlw and Hll

I wound up with this world wide count

333 place names starting with HLA
120 place names starting with HLE
139 place names starting with HLI
110 place names starting with HLO
108 place names starting with HLU
12 place names starting with HLY
31 place names starting with HLW
2, with three variants, starting with HLL

Now here's how it broke down by country:

One that surprised me:
94 places names in Iceland
So that's yet another HL place

Asia

168 Places in BURMA
32 Places in Thailand
2 in Cambodia

Europe

124 in Czech Republic
36 for Slovakia
14 places in Croatia
3 places in Poland
7 places in Slovenia
5 in Yugoslavia
1 in Bulgaria = Hlebovo
13 places names in Bosnia Herzogovinia

6 places in Albania, all with similar names
Hllomo
(2) PPL 40° 04' 08" N 020° 20' 42" E AL45 DK43 NK34-11 -105295 -157197 2002-05-28
Variant: Hllomo-Mavrojer
Variant: Hllomo-Mavrojeri
Variant: Hlomo
Variant: Hlomá
Variant: Hllomoja

Africa

225 places in South Africa
12 in Zimbabwe
12 in Swaziland
16 in Lesotho

And in northern Africa:

5 in Morocco
3 in Algeria

UKRAINE

Hlyboka
Hlukhiv
Hlyboke (variants:Hlyboka Hluboká)
Hlybochok
Hlobyne
Hlynna
Hlinia
Hlibiv
Hlazove
Hlazivka
Hladkivka
Hleyuvatka
Hlynka
Hladke

Happy Hlandings