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ID: 7013948
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013948
Record Type:
administrative
Carson City (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 39 09 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 39.1500
decimal degrees
Long: 119 45 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -119.7500
decimal degrees
Note:
Located 14 miles E of Lake Tahoe; settled by Mormons; became a stop on wagon trail to California; expanded with discovery of silver in 1859; was site of a mint 1870-1893; today economy is based on gambling & tourism.
Names:
Carson City
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Carson
(
C
,
V
)
Ormsby County
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Nevada
(state) (
P
)
................
Carson City
(independent city) (
P
)
....................
Carson City
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 1858 on site of Eagle Station & later renamed after frontiersman "Kit" Carson
city (
C
)
............
incorporated in 1875 & consolidated with former Ormsby county to become an independent city in 1969
state capital (
C
)
............
since 1864
mining center (
C
)
............
since the discovery of silver in nearby Virginia City area in 1859
tourist center (
C
)
agricultural center (
C
)
county seat (
H
)
............
of Carson county, Utah Territory, in 1861; of Ormsby county, from November 29, 1861 until 1864, when it became the state capital
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Nevada
.......... (state)
..................
(World, North and Central America, United States) [7007526]
Sources and Contributors:
Carson..........
[
VP
]
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS32002026
Carson City..........
[
FDA
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
2:158
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
2:904
.......................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS32002026
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Ormsby County..........
[
VP
]
..........................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS32024456
Subject:
.....
[
FDA
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 158; 2:158
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 904; 2:904
..................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS32002026; GNIS32024456
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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