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ID: 2084583
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2084583
Record Type:
administrative
Corvallis (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 44 33 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 44.5500
decimal degrees
Long: 123 15 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -123.2500
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in W Oregon on Willamette River; name in Latin means "heart of the valley."
Names:
Corvallis
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Marysville
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
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Oregon
(state) (
P
)
................
Benton
(county) (
P
)
....................
Corvallis
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled in 1845, incorporated in 1857
city (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
............
for Oregon State University (1868), city's major economic asset
manufacturing center (
C
)
............
for lumber products & sawmilling, dairy products, business machines & tile
agricultural center (
C
)
............
especially for truck farming
tourist center (
C
)
............
as headquarters for Siuslaw National Forest
cultural center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Corvallis..........
[
VP Preferred
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 656-657
....................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS41006526
....................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
294
Marysville..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 656-657
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 656-657
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS41006526
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
294
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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