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ID: 7014386
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014386
Record Type:
administrative
Palo Alto (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 37 26 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 37.4333
decimal degrees
Long: 122 08 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -122.1333
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on W shore of San Francisco Bay; name means "tall tree" and town was named after Senator Leland Standford's Palo Alto farm; site of Stanford University (1891) and related research-oriented industries.
Names:
Palo Alto
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English-P
)
פאלו אלטו
(
C
,
U
,
Hebrew
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
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North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
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United States
(nation) (
P
)
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California
(state) (
P
)
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Santa Clara
(county) (
P
)
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Palo Alto
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
reputedly visited by Gaspar de Portolá in 1769
city (
C
)
............
incorporated in 1939
university center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
פאלו אלטו..........
[
IMJ
]
....................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Palo Alto..........
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
GRLPSC
,
IMJ Preferred
,
VP Preferred
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
4:97
....................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
....................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
....................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS6024190
....................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
GRLPSC
,
IMJ
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IV, 97; 4:97
..................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS6024190
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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