Culture
Geographic renaming directedUpdate the map without moving the water
The Gulf and the mountain have received new federal names.
- Executive owner
- Donald J. Trump / Interior Department
- Status
- Geographic renaming directed
- Due
- Federal naming and map updates
- Paying for it
- Federal mapping, signage and publication budgets
Entered in the archive 2026-10-16.
ACTIVITY
Record dateInterior opened two naming requests.
GULF OF AMERICA, sounds better already!
Mapping confirmed that the coordinates remain available.
Very beautiful Water, we should have a beautiful Name. Nobody had to dredge anything, look at the Savings..... tremendous Rebranding for very little Digging!
Signage asked whether the previous signs count as obsolete inventory.
McKinley gets his Mountain back, strong Mountain Name.
PUBLIC RECORD
Executive Order 14172, signed January 20, 2025: Directed federal use of Gulf of America for the U.S. continental-shelf area described in the order and restoration of Mount McKinley as the mountain's federal name. It did not relocate the geographic features or determine every other country's terminology.