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ID: 7014491
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014491
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Scottsdale (inhabited place)  Scottsdale (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 33 30 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 33.5000  decimal degrees
Long: 111 53 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -111.8833  decimal degrees

Note: Located in S central Arizona E of Phoenix; mainly a residential suburb with important business district specializing in local fashions, arts & crafts; traversed by canals of the Salt River Project; retirement center.

Names:
Scottsdale (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 Arizona (state)  ............  Arizona (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Maricopa (county)  ................  Maricopa (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Scottsdale (inhabited place)  ....................  Scottsdale (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled originally as a stagecoach stop by Winfield Scott in 1895, incorporated in 1961
city (C)
agricultural center (C)  ............  for lettuce, cotton & grain
resort center (C)
manufacturing center (C)  ............  for electronic equipment
cultural center (C)  ............  for nearby Cosanti Foundation (architectural & crafts complex) & Taliesin West (Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural school)

Sources and Contributors:
Scottsdale..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.......................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 578
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 568
.......................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS4020126
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1092
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 578
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 568
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS4020126
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1092
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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