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ID: 2040656
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2040656
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Paducah (inhabited place)  Paducah (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 37 05 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 37.0833  decimal degrees
Long: 088 36 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -88.6000  decimal degrees

Note: Located at confluence of Ohio & Tennessee rivers; was part of grant to George Rogers Clark, soldier & frontiersman; was important for strategic location in Civil War, held by Union under General US Grant & raided by Confederate General NB Forrest.

Names:
Paducah (preferred,C,V)
Paduke (H,V)  ............ named for local Chicksaw chief in 1827
Pekin (H,V)  ............ name of site in original land grant

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of United States (nation)  ........  United States (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Kentucky (state)  ............  Kentucky (state) (P)
Hierarchy of McCracken (county)  ................  McCracken (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Paducah (inhabited place)  ....................  Paducah (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  laid out in 1827, incorporated in 1856
city (C)
county seat (C)
river settlement (C)
power production center (C)
market center (C)
resort center (C)
educational center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Paducah..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 703
.................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS21020611
Paduke..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 54
Pekin..........  [VP]
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 54
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 703
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 54
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS21020611
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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