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ID: 7014491
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014491
Record Type:
administrative
Scottsdale (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 33 30 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 33.5000
decimal degrees
Long: 111 53 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -111.8833
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in S central Arizona E of Phoenix; mainly a residential suburb with important business district specializing in local fashions, arts & crafts; traversed by canals of the Salt River Project; retirement center.
Names:
Scottsdale
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
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United States
(nation) (
P
)
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Arizona
(state) (
P
)
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Maricopa
(county) (
P
)
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Scottsdale
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled originally as a stagecoach stop by Winfield Scott in 1895, incorporated in 1961
city (
C
)
agricultural center (
C
)
............
for lettuce, cotton & grain
resort center (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
............
for electronic equipment
cultural center (
C
)
............
for nearby Cosanti Foundation (architectural & crafts complex) & Taliesin West (Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural school)
Sources and Contributors:
Scottsdale..........
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
578
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 568
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS4020126
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1092
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
578
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 568
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS4020126
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1092
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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