These particular points in this layer were selected from the USGS GNIS data download .txt files for Washington state. This layer may have been modified from the original to be simplified for the tutorial. The data in this layer are not better than the original sources from which they were derived. There is no guarantee of data accuracy with this modified layer. It is the responsibility of the data user to use the data consistent within its limitations. See the original data's metadata at: https://geonames.usgs.gov/docs/metadata/gnis.txt