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ID: 2116485
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2116485
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Pasco (inhabited place)  Pasco (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 46 14 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 46.2333  decimal degrees
Long: 119 05 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -119.0833  decimal degrees

Note: Located in SE Washington on Columbia River; possibly named by railroad surveyors for Cerro de Pasco, Peru; site chosen to build large scale production reactors for development of atomic bomb under US government's Manhattan Project during 1940s.

Names:
Pasco (preferred,C,V)

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 Washington (state)  ............  Washington (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Franklin (county)  ................  Franklin (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Pasco (inhabited place)  ....................  Pasco (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  established in 1880 as a stop located on Northern Pacific Railway's line
city (C)
county seat (C)
port (C)  ............  located on Snake & Columbia rivers
transportation center (C)  ............  for rail lines
educational center (C)  ............  includes Columbia Basin College

Sources and Contributors:
Pasco..........  [VP Preferred]
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIX, 180
..............  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS53015321
..............  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 930
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIX, 180
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS53015321
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 930
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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