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ID: 2025927
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2025927
Record Type:
administrative
Nampa (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 43 32 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 43.5333
decimal degrees
Long: 116 33 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -116.5500
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in SW Idaho; was a desert hamlet until irrigated farming changed eeconomy; named for Shoshoni Indian chief Nampuh (Bigfoot).
Names:
Nampa
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
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North and Central America
(continent) (
P
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United States
(nation) (
P
)
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Idaho
(state) (
P
)
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Canyon
(county) (
P
)
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Nampa
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 1886 as a stop on Union Pacific Railroad's main line
city (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
............
for processing foods
agricultural center (
C
)
............
for vegetable seed production, milk-processing & sugar
transportation center (
C
)
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for railroad since 1886
educational center (
C
)
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includes Northwest Nazarene College
tourist center (
C
)
............
noted for National Wildlife Refuge
Sources and Contributors:
Nampa..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 494
..............
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS16015473
..............
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
809
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 494
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS16015473
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
809
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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