# GNIS feature classes

IRI: <https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/vocab/geo/FeatureClassScheme>

Type: [skos:ConceptScheme](http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#ConceptScheme)

- `rdfs:label`: GNIS feature classes
- `skos:definition`: The U.S. Board on Geographic Names' classes of named features (lake, stream, island, bay, cape, bar, summit, ...), a feature's dcterms:type. Its concepts are made from the Board's published class list when features are loaded (docs/GEOGRAPHY.md).
- `skos:prefLabel`: GNIS feature classes

## Pointing here

- Its inScheme, from (32; `skos:inScheme`):
  - [arch](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/vocab/geo/gnisArch)
  - [area](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/vocab/geo/gnisArea)
  - [bar](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/vocab/geo/gnisBar)
  - [basin](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/vocab/geo/gnisBasin)
  - [bay](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/vocab/geo/gnisBay)
  - [beach](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/vocab/geo/gnisBeach)
  - [bend](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/vocab/geo/gnisBend)
  - [canal](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/vocab/geo/gnisCanal)
  - [cape](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/vocab/geo/gnisCape)
  - [census](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/vocab/geo/gnisCensus)
  - [channel](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/vocab/geo/gnisChannel)
  - [cliff](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/vocab/geo/gnisCliff)
  - [crossing](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/vocab/geo/gnisCrossing)
  - [falls](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/vocab/geo/gnisFalls)
  - [flat](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/vocab/geo/gnisFlat)
  - [gut](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/vocab/geo/gnisGut)
  - [island](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/vocab/geo/gnisIsland)
  - [lake](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/vocab/geo/gnisLake)
  - [lava](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/vocab/geo/gnisLava)
  - [levee](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/vocab/geo/gnisLevee)
  - [pillar](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/vocab/geo/gnisPillar)
  - [populated place](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/vocab/geo/gnisPopulatedPlace)
  - [range](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/vocab/geo/gnisRange)
  - [rapids](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/vocab/geo/gnisRapids)
  - [reservoir](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/vocab/geo/gnisReservoir)
  - [ridge](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/vocab/geo/gnisRidge)
  - [spring](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/vocab/geo/gnisSpring)
  - [stream](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/vocab/geo/gnisStream)
  - [summit](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/vocab/geo/gnisSummit)
  - [swamp](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/vocab/geo/gnisSwamp)
  - [valley](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/vocab/geo/gnisValley)
  - [woods](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/vocab/geo/gnisWoods)

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Cite as: GNIS feature classes. bc-ontology, release 0.1.0-rc12, 2026-09-27. https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/vocab/geo/FeatureClassScheme
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