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ID: 2014826
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2014826
Record Type:
administrative
Visalia (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 36 19 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 36.3167
decimal degrees
Long: 119 17 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -119.2833
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Kaweah River delta in San Joaquin Valley; developed as processing center for local olive, grape & cotton crops; economy now supplanted by light manufacturing; Sequoia & Kings Canyon national parks are nearby.
Names:
Visalia
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
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United States
(nation) (
P
)
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California
(state) (
P
)
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Tulare
(county) (
P
)
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Visalia
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded by Nathaniel Wise in 1852, incorporated in 1923
city (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
............
since 1853
manufacturing center (
C
)
agricultural center (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Visalia..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 393
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS6061074
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 393
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS6061074
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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