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ID: 7013513
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013513
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of De Kalb (inhabited place)  De Kalb (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 41 55 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 41.9167  decimal degrees
Long: 088 45 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -88.7500  decimal degrees

Note: Current name refers to Baron Johann De Kalb, an American Revolutionary general; noted for barbed-wire industry, that was established here in 1874 by Joseph E Glidden; due to demand for fencing in burgeoning cattle industry of the West, city flourished.

Names:
De Kalb (preferred,C,V)
Buena Vista (H,V)  ............ until 1856

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 Illinois (state)  ............  Illinois (state) (P)
Hierarchy of De Kalb (county)  ................  De Kalb (county) (P)
Hierarchy of De Kalb (inhabited place)  ....................  De Kalb (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded in 1838
city (C)
industrial center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Buena Vista..........  [VP]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 232
De Kalb..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS17004492
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 321
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 232
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS17004492
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 321
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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