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ID: 7013300
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013300
Record Type:
administrative
Anderson (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 40 06 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 40.1000
decimal degrees
Long: 085 40 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -85.6667
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on West Fork of White River in corn- & wheat-producing area; was founded on site of a Delaware village; town grew when natural gas was discovered in 1886; noted for nearby Mounds State Park containing several prehistoric mounds.
Names:
Anderson
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Andersontown
(
H
,
V
)
............
named for a subchief of the local Delaware, Koktowhanund, also known as William Anderson
Andersonton
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
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North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
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Indiana
(state) (
P
)
................
Madison
(county) (
P
)
....................
Anderson
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 1863 on site of earlier settlement, incorporated in 1865
city (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
............
from 1828
agricultural center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Anderson..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 383
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS18000201
Andersonton..........
[
VP
]
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS18000201
Andersontown..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 383
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS18000201
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 383
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS18000201
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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