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ID: 7014285
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014285
Record Type:
administrative
Omaha (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 41 15 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 41.2500
decimal degrees
Long: 095 56 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -95.9333
decimal degrees
Note:
On W bank of Missouri river; site of trading post established by Manuel Lisa 1812; site of Utah-bound Mormon camp 1846-1847; suffered in great blizzard of 1888; declined after panic of 1893, but economy has improved greatly since 1914.
Names:
Omaha
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Nebraska
(state) (
P
)
................
Douglas
(county) (
P
)
....................
Omaha
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 1854 on land previously visited by explorers Lewis & Clark in 1804
city (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
............
one of the nation's largest railroad centers, since construction of Union Pacific Railroad 1863
agricultural center (
C
)
............
world's largest livestock market & meat-packing center
industrial center (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
college center (
C
)
capital (
H
)
............
of the Nebraska Territory from 1854-1867
Sources and Contributors:
Omaha..........
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
..............
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 687
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 944
..............
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS31005543
..............
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 687
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 944
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS31005543
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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