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ID: 2020771
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2020771
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Panama City (inhabited place)  Panama City (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 30 09 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 30.1500  decimal degrees
Long: 085 39 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -85.6500  decimal degrees

Note: Located in NW Florida on Saint Andrew Bay; named by George W West for Canal Zone; Loyalists flocked to site during American Revolution; during American Civil War Confederates constructed Saltworks; WW II initiated establishment of war & ship industries.

Names:
Panama City (preferred,C,V)  ............ combined with Millville & Saint Andrew in 1909
St. Andrew (H,V)
Old Town (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of United States (nation)  ........  United States (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Florida (state)  ............  Florida (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Bay (county)  ................  Bay (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Panama City (inhabited place)  ....................  Panama City (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled as an English fishing village in 1765
city (C)
county seat (C)
port of entry (C)
industrial center (C)  ............  for chemicals, defense technology & lumber
manufacturing center (C)  ............  for paper, clothing & plastics
shipbuilding center (C)
fish-processing center (C)
sporting center (C)  ............  for fishing
tourist center (C)
educational center (C)  ............  houses Gulf Coast Community College & Naval Coastal Systems Center, which is a driving school

Sources and Contributors:
Old Town..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 107
Panama City..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 491
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 107-106
.......................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS12013615
St. Andrew..........  [VP]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 107
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 491
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 107; IX, 107-106
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS12013615
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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