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ID: 7013829
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013829
Record Type:
administrative
Kenosha (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 42 35 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 42.5833
decimal degrees
Long: 087 49 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -87.8167
decimal degrees
Note:
S of Milwaukee near border with Illinois; automobiles, furniture, clothing & metal products are manufactured; site of state's first public school 1849.
Names:
Kenosha
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
renamed 1850; Potawatomi word for "pike" or "pickerel"
Southport
(
H
,
V
)
Pike Creek
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Wisconsin
(state) (
P
)
................
Kenosha
(county) (
P
)
....................
Kenosha
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1835
city (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
............
since 1850
port (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Kenosha..........
[
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 802
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS55008158
Pike Creek..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 802
Southport..........
[
VP
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 802
Subject:
.....
[
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 802
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS55008158
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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