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ID: 2014500
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2014500

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Sunnyvale (inhabited place)  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:
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 Santa Clara (county)  ................  Santa Clara (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Sunnyvale (inhabited place)  ....................  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 .......... [VP]

 

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