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ID: 2012271
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2012271
Record Type:
administrative
Lompoc (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 34 38 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 34.6333
decimal degrees
Long: 120 27 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -120.4500
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in Santa Ynez Valley; name is Chumash meaning "burial mound"; subdivided from lands comprising Rancho Lompoc & MisÃon Vieja (1787); important for flower-seed market; the large aerospace complex Vandenberg Air Force Base is nearby.
Names:
Lompoc
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C
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V
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California
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Santa Barbara
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Lompoc
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Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
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founded as a farming community in 1874 by the California Immigrant Union on land previously occupied by Chumash Amerindians
city (
C
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incorporated in 1888
petroleum refining center (
C
)
military center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Lompoc..........
[
VP Preferred
]
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Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 457
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USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS6051008
Subject:
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Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 457
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USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS6051008
Note:
English
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[
VP
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