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ID: 7014180
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014180
Record Type:
administrative
Napa (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 38 17 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 38.2833
decimal degrees
Long: 122 17 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -122.2833
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Napa River; became shipment port for cattle, lumber & quicksilver to San Francisco; famous as producer of fine wines; other industries include steel pipes & leather goods.
Names:
Napa
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
California
(state) (
P
)
................
Napa
(county) (
P
)
....................
Napa
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded as the county seat in 1848 by Nathan Coombs on the site of Rancho Napa, a Spanish land grant of 1838
city (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
............
since 1848
agricultural center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Napa..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
...........
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
...........
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 505
...........
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS6022577
...........
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 505
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS6022577
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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