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ID: 7017456
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7017456
Record Type:
administrative
Hot Springs (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 34 30 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 34.5000
decimal degrees
Long: 093 03 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -93.0500
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in Hot Springs National Park; area was frequented by Spanish & French in 1700s; became a resort focusing on the thermal springs.
Names:
Hot Springs
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Man-a-tak-a
(
C
,
V
)
Valley of Vapors
(
C
,
V
)
Warm Springs
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
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North and Central America
(continent) (
P
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United States
(nation) (
P
)
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Arkansas
(state) (
P
)
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Garland
(county) (
P
)
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Hot Springs
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
permanent settlement dates from 1807; springs were frequented by Amerindians & probably visited by De Soto in 1541
city (
C
)
............
since 1886
county seat (
C
)
resort center (
C
)
spa center (
C
)
............
frequented since pre-Colombian times; 47 thermal springs were designated a public reserve in 1832
medical center (
C
)
............
home to some 20 hydrotherapeutic institutions & the Libbey Memorial Physical Medicine Center
Sources and Contributors:
Hot Springs..........
[
FDA
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
6:79
.......................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1990)
87
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS5009699
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Man-a-tak-a..........
[
VP
]
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS5009699
Valley of Vapors..........
[
VP
]
.............................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS5009699
Warm Springs..........
[
VP
]
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS5009699
Subject:
.....
[
FDA
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 79; 6:79
..................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1990)
87
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS5009699
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
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VP
]
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