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ID: 7013446
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013446
Record Type:
administrative
Boulder (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 40 00 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 40.0000
decimal degrees
Long: 105 16 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -105.2667
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in N central Colorado on Boulder Creek at foot of Flatiron Range; was founded as a mining community in 19th cen.; by 1873 was a thriving center & gateway to mines in nearby mountains; expanded with arrival of railroads & farmers.
Names:
Boulder
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
named for large rocks in area
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Colorado
(state) (
P
)
................
Boulder
(county) (
P
)
....................
Boulder
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled by miners in 1858
city (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
............
for aircraft
manufacturing center (
C
)
............
for computers, electronic equipment, sporting goods & chemicals
agricultural center (
C
)
mining center (
C
)
scientific center (
C
)
............
for space & environmental research since 1950s
administrative center (
C
)
............
for National Bureau of Standards, National Center for Atmospheric Research & US branch of World Data Center of Solar Activity
transportation center (
C
)
............
railroads arrived in 1873
tourist center (
C
)
............
for Boulder & other scenic canyons, Rocky Mountain National Park, Roosevelt National Forest & mineral springs
educational center (
C
)
............
for University of Colorado (1861)
Sources and Contributors:
Boulder..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
87
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 421
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS8010447
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
166
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
87
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 421
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS8010447
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
166
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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