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ID: 7014081
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014081
Record Type:
administrative
Minot (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 48 13 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 48.2167
decimal degrees
Long: 101 17 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -101.2833
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Souris River, 50 miles S of Canadian border; economy based mostly on agricultural processing & distribution; major oil fields & lignites mines are nearby; site of Minot State College (1913) & Minot Air Force Base.
Names:
Minot
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
named after Eastern railroad investor Henry D Minot in 1887
Hierarchical Position:
World
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North and Central America
(continent) (
P
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United States
(nation) (
P
)
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North Dakota
(state) (
P
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Ward
(county) (
P
)
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Minot
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded as a tent town of the Great Northern Railway in 1886
city (
C
)
............
incorporated in 1887
county seat (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
mining center (
C
)
oil field site (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Minot..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 170
..............
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS38003192
..............
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 170
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS38003192
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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