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ID: 7014180
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014180

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Napa (inhabited place)  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:
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 Napa (county)  ................  Napa (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Napa (inhabited place)  ....................  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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