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ID: 7013856
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013856
Record Type:
administrative
Lake Charles (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 30 13 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 30.2167
decimal degrees
Long: 093 13 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -93.2167
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Calcasieu River in SW Louisiana; in 1880s flourished as lumber industrial center specializing in pine; port situated on a deepwater channel connects to Gulf of Mexico; among nation's leading petrochemical producers.
Names:
Lake Charles
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Charlestown
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Louisiana
(state) (
P
)
................
Calcasieu
(parish (political)) (
P
)
....................
Lake Charles
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled by Charles Sallier in 1781
city (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
port (
C
)
............
ships cotton, sugar & rice
manufacturing center (
C
)
............
for chemicals & rubber
industrial center (
C
)
............
for sulfur, oil deposits & oil refineries
agricultural center (
C
)
............
noted as leading rice-growing center in nation
mill center (
C
)
............
for lumber
educational center (
C
)
............
home of McNeese State University
Sources and Contributors:
Charlestown..........
[
VP
]
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS22009141
Lake Charles..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 108
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS22009141
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
643
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 108
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS22009141
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
643
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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