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ID: 7013262
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013262
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Abilene (inhabited place)  Abilene (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 38 55 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 38.9167  decimal degrees
Long: 097 12 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -97.2000  decimal degrees

Note: Located on the Smoky Hill River; was important frontier town & cattle transit point from 1867 to 1871; burial place of Dwight David Eisenhower.

Names:
Abilene (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 Kansas (state)  ............  Kansas (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Dickinson (county)  ................  Dickinson (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Abilene (inhabited place)  ....................  Abilene (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled in 1859
town (C)
county seat (C)
cow town (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Abilene..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 3
.................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS20008897
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 3
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS20008897
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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