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ID: 7014573
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014573
Record Type:
administrative
Virginia City (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 39 18 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 39.3000
decimal degrees
Long: 119 38 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -119.6333
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on E slope of Sierra Nevada; became boom town after discovery of famous Comstock Lode of silver & gold in 1859; "bonanza barons" G Hearst & J MacKay built huge mansions & public buildings; Samuel Clemens was a newspaper reporter here.
Names:
Virginia City
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
named for prospector "Old Virginia" Fennimore
Ophir
(
C
,
V
)
Pleasant Hill
(
C
,
V
)
Silver City
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Nevada
(state) (
P
)
................
Storey
(county) (
P
)
....................
Virginia City
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled in 1859
town (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Ophir..........
[
VP
]
..............
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS32012537
Pleasant Hill..........
[
VP
]
..........................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS32012537
Silver City..........
[
VP
]
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS32012537
Virginia City..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
..........................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..........................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 390-391
..........................
Rand McNally Road Atlas, USA (1986)
..........................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS32012537
..........................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1305
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 390-391
..................
Rand McNally Road Atlas, USA (1986)
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS32012537
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1305
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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