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ID: 7013443
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013443
Record Type:
administrative
Boise (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 43 36 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 43.6000
decimal degrees
Long: 116 12 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -116.2000
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Boise River in SW Idaho; largest city in state; named by French-Cannadian trappers for river running through surrounding woods; economy flourished due to excellent location on Oregon Trail.
Names:
Boise
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Idaho
(state) (
P
)
................
Ada
(county) (
P
)
....................
Boise
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
originated as Fort Boise in 1863
city (
C
)
state capital (
C
)
............
since 1864
county seat (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
............
for packing houses & food processing
quarrying center (
C
)
............
for stone
agricultural center (
C
)
............
produces fruit, sugar beets & livestock
mill center (
C
)
............
for lumber
commercial center (
C
)
administrative center (
C
)
............
for federal & state agencies
educational center (
C
)
............
includes Boise State University founded in 1932
tourist center (
C
)
............
noted for Boise National Forest, with remnants of empty gold mines & ghost towns
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Idaho
.......... (state)
..................
(World, North and Central America, United States) [7007250]
Sources and Contributors:
Boise..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
..............
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 110
..............
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 333
..............
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS16002446
..............
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
157
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 110
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 333
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS16002446
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
157
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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