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ID: 7013422
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013422
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Billings (inhabited place)  Billings (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 45 47 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 45.7833  decimal degrees
Long: 108 30 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -108.5000  decimal degrees

Note: Located in S central Montana on Yellowstone River; metropolis of "Midland Empire"; prospered after arrival of railroad in 1883; flourished with development cattle industry & irrigated agriculture.

Names:
Billings (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 Montana (state)  ............  Montana (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Yellowstone (county)  ................  Yellowstone (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Billings (inhabited place)  ....................  Billings (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  established by Northern Pacific Railway in late 19th cen.
city (C)
agricultural center (C)  ............  producing sugar beets, varied truck crops, wool & livestock
industrial center (C)  ............  includes beet sugar & oil refining, meat-packing & flour milling
educational center (C)  ............  home of Eastern Montana College & Rocky Mountain College
tourist center (C)  ............  for Custer National forest, Grasshopper Glacier & Pictograph Cave State Monument, site of prehistoric artifacts

Sources and Contributors:
Billings..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 214
.................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS30002362
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 214
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS30002362
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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