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ID: 2055406
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2055406
Record Type:
administrative
Saint Cloud (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 45 33 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 45.5500
decimal degrees
Long: 094 09 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -94.1500
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in central Minnesota on Mississippi River; named for French city; fortified in Sioux uprising of 1862 & served as refuge for thousands of fleeing settlers.
Names:
Saint Cloud
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
St. Cloud
(
C
,
V
)
Granite City
(
C
,
V
)
............
nickname referring to granite quarries
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
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North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
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United States
(nation) (
P
)
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Minnesota
(state) (
P
)
................
Stearns
(county) (
P
)
....................
Saint Cloud
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Minnesota
(state) (
P
)
................
Sherburne
(county) (
P
)
....................
Saint Cloud
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled in 1851, laid out in 1854 & incorporated as city in 1889
city (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
............
for granite & granite products, railroad shops, refrigeration equipment, paper & metalworking
agricultural center (
C
)
............
for dairy farming & grains
trade center (
C
)
............
for agricultural products
quarrying center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
............
for St. Cloud State University (1866)
prison center (
C
)
............
for Minnesota State Reformatory since 1887
fur station (
C
)
............
was a terminus for Hudson's Bay Company
Sources and Contributors:
Granite City..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 313-314
Saint Cloud..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS27018181
St. Cloud..........
[
VP
]
....................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 803
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 313-314
....................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1045
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 803
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 313-314
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS27018181
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1045
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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