How this works
Corrections
A register whose whole claim is that its entries can be checked has to publish its own mistakes on the same terms. Reviewed August 8, 2026.
Why this page exists
Because checking a name invites a particular test: go to the plat book, the nomination or the federal names record, read it, and see whether this register read it correctly.
Sometimes the answer will be no. A date can be transcribed wrongly, a standing account can be printed as an established act, a name can be assigned to the wrong layer, and a document can turn up that closes a gap this site left open. When that happens the correction is printed here with a date rather than edited away, because a register that silently overwrites its errors has withdrawn the offer to be checked.
How to report one
Write to [email protected], which reaches the same desk with the subject already sorted, or to [email protected], or telephone +1 (904) 296-5137 during posted hours, Tuesday to Friday, 9:30 am to 3:30 pm Eastern. The form on contact does the same job.
What helps: the entry, the sentence, and what record you think it disagrees with. What is not needed and is never asked for: anything about your own travel.
A correspondent does not have to be right, or certain. A letter saying only that a paragraph does not match the plat book is a useful letter and gets the same treatment as a confident one.
What happens to it
The record is read again at the source, not against this site's own summary of it and not against a search result about it. If the reading here was wrong, three things happen: the entry is fixed, its checked date changes, and a dated line appears below saying what was wrong and what it now says.
If the reading here was right, that is answered too, with the passage it rests on, so the working can be checked rather than taken on trust. A correspondent who still disagrees is welcome to say so again.
The five gaps, which are not errors
These are printed on the entries themselves and gathered here so nobody has to hunt for them. They are places where the record runs out, not places where this register got something wrong.
| Entry | What could not be established | What would close it |
|---|---|---|
| Talleyrand | Who applied the name, and when | A plat or municipal record from the period the street was laid out |
| Mandarin | Any document performing the naming | A recorded act, rather than the standing account every source repeats |
| Murray Hill | Who chose the borrowed name | The same: a plat or a developer's record naming the chooser |
| Baldwin | The physician's exact connection to the line, and which line | Company records for the railroad concerned |
| San Marco | The 1925 start and the eighty acres, at first hand | The subdivision's plat book entry and the 1932 annexation record |
A reader who can name any of those documents is doing this register a larger favor than a reader who finds a typo.
What does not get changed on request
An entry does not change because somebody prefers a better story. The clearest case is Riverside, where the neighborhood's tradition about who designed its Prairie School houses is contradicted by the federal nomination that listed the district. The nomination is public, it is quoted, and this register follows it.
Nor does an entry change because a preservation body, a historical society or a civic organization would prefer different wording. None of them has seen a page here before a reader did, and none has any standing to ask.
The record
Corrections are listed newest first, with the date the fix went up.
No corrections yet. This register went up on August 8, 2026 and nothing has needed fixing since. That is a statement about how new it is rather than a claim about how careful it is: a publication that reads plat books for a living and never corrects anything is either very lucky or is not being checked. When the first correction arrives it will appear here in full, including the part where this site had it wrong.