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ID: 7014762
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014762
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Covington (inhabited place)  Covington (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 39 05 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 39.0833  decimal degrees
Long: 084 30 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -84.5000  decimal degrees

Note: Located at junction of Ohio and Licking rivers, adjoining Newport and opposite Cincinnati, Ohio; site given to G Muse as payment for military services, exchanged for a keg of whiskey in 1780; flourished with surge of river traffic in 19th century.

Names:
Covington (preferred,C,V)  ............ named for General Leonard Covington, who died in the War of 1812

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of United States (nation)  ........  United States (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Kentucky (state)  ............  Kentucky (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Kenton (county)  ................  Kenton (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Covington (inhabited place)  ....................  Covington (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  town was laid out in 1815
city (C)
county seat (C)  ............  one of 2 seats of Kenton county, other is Independence
market center (C)
manufacturing center (C)
university center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Covington..........  [FDA, VP Preferred]
....................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) 1:209
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) 2:694
....................  National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
....................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS21006504
....................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject: .....  [FDA, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 209; 1:209
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 694; 2:694
..................  National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS21006504
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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