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ID: 7013869
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013869
Record Type:
administrative
Las Cruces (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 32 18 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 32.3000
decimal degrees
Long: 106 46 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -106.7667
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in S New Mexico near Rio Grande River; Spanish name means "the crosses," referring to the massacre of some 40 travelers by Apache Indians in 1830 on this site.
Names:
Las Cruces
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
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North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
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United States
(nation) (
P
)
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New Mexico
(state) (
P
)
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Dona Ana county
(county) (
P
)
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Las Cruces
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1848 & incorporated 1907
town (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
agricultural center (
C
)
............
for livestock & for cotton, pecans, sugar beets, alfalfa & melons irrigated by Elephant Butte Dam
manufacturing center (
C
)
............
for cottonseed oil
educational center (
C
)
............
for New Mexico State University (1888), in nearby University Park
tourist center (
C
)
............
for nearby White Sands National Monument, Fort Fillmore (1851), Fort Seldon (1865) & Indian village of Tortugas
Sources and Contributors:
Las Cruces..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 505
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 169
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS35012947
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
651
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 505
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 169
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS35012947
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
651
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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