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ID: 7014454
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014454
Record Type:
administrative
San Bernardino (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 34 05 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 34.0833
decimal degrees
Long: 117 16 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -117.2667
decimal degrees
Note:
Located at base of San Bernardino Mountains; sold to Mormons & laid out as town ca. 1852; developed as trade & processing center for local crops; main industries are Kaiser Steel Corporation, Santa Fe Railroad yards & Norton Air Force Base.
Names:
San Bernardino
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
since 1810
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
California
(state) (
P
)
................
San Bernardino
(county) (
P
)
....................
San Bernardino
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
first visited in 1772 & named by Spanish missionaries for Saint Bernardino of Siena in 1810
city (
C
)
............
incorporated in 1869
county seat (
C
)
............
since 1853
agricultural center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
San Bernardino..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.............................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 820
.............................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 385
.............................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS6057065
.............................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 820
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 385
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS6057065
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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