Are Fallout's locations tied to real world locations?

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Jagasian

First time out of the vault
The Boneyard is definitely LA, but what about the other locations in Fallout?
http://mikesrpgcenter.com/fallout/maps.html

It seems that The Glow is located in the same area as the USMC military base Camp Pendleton, which is south of Orange County:
http://www.idcide.com/i/mc2/ca/camp-pendleton-north.gif
http://www.fws.gov/Carlsbad/Rules/GnatCatcher_Documents/Htms/CAGN_Pendleton.htm

Is there a chart listing the remaining locations and their real world counterparts? It is an interesting aspect of Fallout's lore.
 
If you search for "Klamath Falls" for instance you can find a few threads on this.
 
Redding and Kalamath falls are real cities in Oregon. it's just not where it is in the game. I always thought the glow was Alamogordo and the white sands missile range. I've seen signs for places called Arroyo although they were mostly in utah and southern Oregon.

Jericho is where Ogden utah is for F3
 
Also this post: http://www.nma-fallout.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=42886 which is where I will post updates.

Thanks to Alec, I know my FO 3 map was newsposted. Nice!

At some point, I ought to collect up some of the tidbits of info in the Atlas and put them in a text format or something. But most of what follows is in the various location info popup thingies that you can see if you view the Atlas in it's Google Earth glory.

Redding: The in-game location is near Reading Peak (on the east flank of Mount Lassen). Reading is pronounced "redding", and the real city of Redding, California, was originally named Reading. The town and the peak were both named after the same early pioneer.

Klamath: Don't forget there is a Klamath, California as well, by the Great Salt Water. It's very small, a bit southeast of Crescent City. But the in-game Klamath location isn't near either that one or "K-Falls". It's just west of Yreka, California, near the Klamath River. I guess that placemat on the FO 2 town map screen floated down the river or something, probably right before the river dried up.

The Glow is just southwest of the Salton Sea. It's grid square overlaps the Carrizo Impact Area, where I believe the Navy used to drop bombs. There's military stuff, mostly Navy and Marines, peppered all over the area though.

I think that "arroyo" is spanish for "canyon". (Damn, that's not in the Atlas...) Historically, there wasn't much Spanish settlement that far north in California (Russians and British piled in earlier).
 
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