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ID: 7015470
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7015470
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Vallejo (inhabited place)  Vallejo (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 38 06 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 38.1000  decimal degrees
Long: 122 15 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -122.2500  decimal degrees

Note: Located on San Pablo Bay; land offered by General Mariano Vallejo served as site for new state capital in 1852-1853, but legislature only met briefly; expanded with construction of Mare Island Naval Shipyard 1854 and nearby Travis Air Force base.

Names:
Vallejo (preferred,C,V)

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 California (state)  ............  California (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Solano (county)  ................  Solano (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Vallejo (inhabited place)  ....................  Vallejo (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled ca. 1850, incorporated 1868
city (C)
military center (C)
agricultural center (C)
capital (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Vallejo..........  [FDA, VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) 12:248
.................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS6060786
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1283
Subject: .....  [FDA, VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 248; 12:248
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS6060786
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1283
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)

 

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