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ID: 7014304
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014304
Record Type:
administrative
Orlando (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 28 32 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 28.5333
decimal degrees
Long: 081 22 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -81.3667
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in central Florida; S Florida Railroad arrived in 1880; economy & population have benefited from development of Cape Canaveral aerospace complex (after 1950) & Disney World recreation complex (1971).
Names:
Orlando
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
named changed in 1857 in honor of Orlando Reeves, a sentry killed in the Seminole Wars
Jernigan
(
H
,
V
)
............
used from 1856 to 1857
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Florida
(state) (
P
)
................
Orange
(county) (
P
)
....................
Orlando
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settlement began ca. 1844 around Fort Gatlin
city (
C
)
............
incorporated in 1875
county seat (
C
)
............
since 1856
commercial center (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
............
for electronic & aerospace missile components
agricultural center (
C
)
............
for farming distribution & winter citrus-vegetable industries
tourist center (
C
)
............
Walt Disney World is 15 miles to the SW
educational center (
C
)
............
houses Jones College at Orlando, Florida Technological University & Valencia Community College
Sources and Contributors:
Jernigan..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 1001-1002
Orlando..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 1001-1002
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS12013341
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
900
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 1001-1002
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS12013341
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
900
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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