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ID: 7014509
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014509
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Sioux Falls (inhabited place)  Sioux Falls (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 43 33 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 43.5500  decimal degrees
Long: 096 42 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -96.7000  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Big Sioux river; Minnesota Sioux (Dakota) Indians evicted original settlers in 1862; settlers returned with establishment of Fort Dakota 1865; site of one of nation's largest livestock markets & memorial to battleship USS South Dakota.

Names:
Sioux Falls (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 South Dakota (state)  ............  South Dakota (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Minnehaha (county)  ................  Minnehaha (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Sioux Falls (inhabited place)  ....................  Sioux Falls (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled in 1857
city (C)  ............  incorporated in 1883
transportation center (C)
agricultural center (C)
industrial center (C)  ............  includes meat-packing, metal & wood working & farm machinery manufacturing
power production center (C)  ............  site of one of the world's first nuclear power plants, located on city's edge

Sources and Contributors:
Sioux Falls..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.......................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 843
.......................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS46006596
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 843
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS46006596
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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