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ID: 7007708

Record Type: administrative

Oregon (state)

Coordinates:
Lat: 44 00 00 N degrees minutes			Lat: 44.0000 decimal degrees
Long: 120 00 00 W degrees minutes			Long: -120.0000 decimal degrees

Note: Inhabited by Chinook, Tillamook, Yamel, Northern Paiute, Modoc & many others when Spanish & English arrived in 16th cen.; settled by fur merchants in 18th cen.; great influx of settlers from E arrived in mid-19th cen.

Names:

Oregon (preferred,C,V)

OR (C,V,USPS)

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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Oregon (state) (P)

Place Types:

state (preferred, B)	............	since February 14, 1859
first level subdivision (C)

Sources and Contributors:

OR..........	[VP]
...........	Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1257

Oregon..........	[BHA, FDA, VP Preferred]
.................	Canby, Historic Places (1984) 2:690-691
.................	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) 29:452 ff.
.................	Times Atlas of the World (1994) Plate 102
.................	USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS88000337
.................	Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)

Subject: .....	[BHA, FDA, VP]
..................	Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 690-691; 2:690-691
..................	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XXIX, 452 ff.; 29:452 ff.
..................	Times Atlas of the World (1994) Plate 102
..................	USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS88000337
..................	Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................	Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1257


Note:
English	..........	[VP]
	..........	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)

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