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ID: 2014500
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2014500
Record Type:
administrative
Sunnyvale (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 37 22 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 37.3667
decimal degrees
Long: 122 02 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -122.0333
decimal degrees
Note:
Located at S end of San Francisco Bay; began as fruit processing center & expanded with construction of US Navy dirigible base, built at nearby Moffett Field in 1930s & Westinghouse Electric (1942); manufactures guided missles & electronics.
Names:
Sunnyvale
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Encinal
(
H
,
V
)
Murphy's Station
(
H
,
V
)
............
from 1850-1930
Hierarchical Position:
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North and Central America
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United States
(nation) (
P
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California
(state) (
P
)
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Santa Clara
(county) (
P
)
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Sunnyvale
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled in 1850
city (
C
)
............
incorporated in 1912
industrial center (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Encinal..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 397
Murphy's Station..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 397
Sunnyvale..........
[
VP Preferred
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 397
....................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS6034756
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 397
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS6034756
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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