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ID: 7014462
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014462
Record Type:
administrative
San Mateo (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 37 33 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 37.5500
decimal degrees
Long: 122 19 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -122.3167
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on W shore of San Francisco Bay; was Mexican colony 1822-1846; comprised estates of wealthy gold prospectors in mid-19th cen.; laid out as a residential community & connected by rail to San Francisco in 1863.
Names:
San Mateo
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
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named for St. Matthew by Spanish explorers in 1793
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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San Mateo
(county) (
P
)
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San Mateo
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
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site of a mission hospice built in 1793, received great influx of residents made homeless by San Francisco earthquake in 1906
city (
C
)
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incorporated in 1894
Sources and Contributors:
San Mateo..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
....................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 825
....................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
....................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS6028332
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 825
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS6028332
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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