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ID: 2012741
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2012741
Record Type:
administrative
Modesto (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 37 38 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 37.6333
decimal degrees
Long: 120 59 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -120.9833
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Tuolomne River in N San Joaquin Valley; named Modesto after railway magnate WC Ralston "modestly" declined to have town named after him; economy based on food-processing & light industry.
Names:
Modesto
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V
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California
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Stanislaus
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Modesto
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Place Types:
inhabited place (
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C
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incorporated 1884
city (
C
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incorporated in 1884
county seat (
C
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agricultural center (
C
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Sources and Contributors:
Modesto..........
[
VP Preferred
]
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Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 216
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USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS6031932
Subject:
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Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 216
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USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS6031932
Note:
English
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VP
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