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ID: 2019106
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2019106
Record Type:
administrative
Delray Beach (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 26 27 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 26.4500
decimal degrees
Long: 080 04 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -80.0667
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Atlantic Ocean; settlers from Michigan named town for Congressman William S Linton in 1896.
Names:
Delray Beach
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
renamed for a district of Detroit in 1927
Linton
(
H
,
V
)
............
from 1896
Hierarchical Position:
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United States
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P
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Florida
(state) (
P
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Palm Beach
(county) (
P
)
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Delray Beach
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled in late 19th cen.; incorporated in 1927
city (
C
)
tourist center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Delray Beach..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS12004943
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
324
Linton..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 236
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 236
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS12004943
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
324
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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