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ID: 2083143
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2083143
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Durant (inhabited place)  Durant (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 33 59 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 33.9833  decimal degrees
Long: 096 22 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -96.3667  decimal degrees

Note: Settled by Choctaw family named Durant in 1870; developed as railroad junction; today produces cotton gins & compresses, & cottonseed oil.

Names:
Durant (preferred,C,V)  ............ used from 1882
Durant Junction (H,V)  ............ "junction" refers to arrival of railroad in 1872

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 Oklahoma (state)  ............  Oklahoma (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Bryan (county)  ................  Bryan (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Durant (inhabited place)  ....................  Durant (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled in 1870
town (C)
agricultural center (C)
university center (C)  ............  Southeastern Oklahoma State University was founded in 1909

Sources and Contributors:
Durant..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS40003297
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 348
Durant Junction..........  [VP]
.............................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 259
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 259
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS40003297
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 348
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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