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ID: 2083143
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2083143
Record Type:
administrative
Durant (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 33 59 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 33.9833
decimal degrees
Long: 096 22 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -96.3667
decimal degrees
Note:
Settled by Choctaw family named Durant in 1870; developed as railroad junction; today produces cotton gins & compresses, & cottonseed oil.
Names:
Durant
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
used from 1882
Durant Junction
(
H
,
V
)
............
"junction" refers to arrival of railroad in 1872
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
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North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
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United States
(nation) (
P
)
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Oklahoma
(state) (
P
)
................
Bryan
(county) (
P
)
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Durant
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled in 1870
town (
C
)
agricultural center (
C
)
university center (
C
)
............
Southeastern Oklahoma State University was founded in 1909
Sources and Contributors:
Durant..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS40003297
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
348
Durant Junction..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 259
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 259
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS40003297
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
348
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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