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ID: 2498231
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2498231

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Mazuma (deserted settlement)  Mazuma (deserted settlement)

Coordinates:
Lat: 40 27 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 40.4500  decimal degrees
Long: 118 45 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -118.7500  decimal degrees

Note: Was located NW of Lovelock at mouth of Seven Troughs Canyon; was a mining camp, destroyed by flash flood in 1912; name derived from Yiddish slang word for money.

Names:
Mazuma (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 Nevada (state)  ............  Nevada (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Pershing (county)  ................  Pershing (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Mazuma (deserted settlement)  ....................  Mazuma (deserted settlement) (P)

Place Types:
deserted settlement (preferred, C)
inhabited place (C)
mining center (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Mazuma..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS32016420
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS32016420
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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