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ID: 7022656
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Staten Island (borough)  Staten Island (borough)

Coordinates:
Lat: 40 35 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 40.5833  decimal degrees
Long: 074 09 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -74.1500  decimal degrees

Note: Coextensive with Richmond County. Comprises much of the island of the same name.

Names:
Staten Island (preferred,C,V)
Richmond Borough (H,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 New York (state)  ............  New York (state) (P)
Hierarchy of New York (inhabited place)  ................  New York (inhabited place) (P)
Hierarchy of Staten Island (borough)  ....................  Staten Island (borough) (P)

Additional Parents:
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 New York (state)  ............  New York (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Richmond (county)  ................  Richmond (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Staten Island (borough)  ....................  Staten Island (borough) (P,C) the borough and the county are coextensive

Place Types:
borough (preferred, C)  ............  of New York City, coextensive with Richmond county
residential center (C)
political center (H)  ............  site of unsuccessful negotiations between Lord Howe & American patriots on the eve of the Revolution in 1776

Related geographic places:
coextensive with ....  Richmond .......... (county)
..............................  (World, North and Central America, United States, New York state) [7015817]

Sources and Contributors:
Richmond Borough..........  [VP]
.............................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1016
Staten Island..........  [BHA, FDA, VP Preferred]
..........................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..........................  National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..........................  Times Atlas of the World (1988)
..........................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS36028330
..........................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1153
Subject: .....  [BHA, FDA, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 889-890
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1988)
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS36028330
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1016; 1153
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)

 

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