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ID: 2035847
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2035847
Record Type:
administrative
Waterloo (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 42 29 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 42.4833
decimal degrees
Long: 092 20 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -92.3333
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Cedar River in NE Iowa; is center for agriculture & livestock-farming; hosts of annual National Dairy Congress.
Names:
Waterloo
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
was taken from postal directory to petition for a post office in 1851
Prairie Rapids
(
H
,
V
)
............
was used from 1845 to 1851
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Iowa
(state) (
P
)
................
Black Hawk
(county) (
P
)
....................
Waterloo
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled in 1845 as a railroad stop & trade center
city (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
agricultural center (
C
)
............
for livestock farming
manufacturing center (
C
)
............
for meat-packing, textiles, leather goods & soybean processing
industrial center (
C
)
............
for metal products, construction machinery & farm & tractor equipment
educational center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Prairie Rapids..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 523
Waterloo..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 523
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS19009821
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1322
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 523
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS19009821
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1322
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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