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ID: 4006871
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/4006871
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Manzanar (former inhabited place)  Manzanar (former inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 36 44 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 36.7333  decimal degrees
Long: 118 04 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -118.0667  decimal degrees

Note: Located 12 miles north of Lake Owens. Former town founded by water engineer and land developer George Chaffey. It was situated on the former narrow-gauge railway line of the Southern Pacific Railroad 9 miles, with a post office 1911-1914. The site later contained a Japanese relocation center during WW II.

Names:
Manzanar (preferred,C,V)

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 California (state)  ............  California (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Inyo (county)  ................  Inyo (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Manzanar (former inhabited place)  ....................  Manzanar (former inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
former inhabited place (preferred, C)
inhabited place (H)
post office (H)

Related geographic places:
located on ....  Manzanar National Historic Site .......... (historic site)
..................  (World, North and Central America, United States, California, Inyo county) [7032211]

Sources and Contributors:
Manzanar..........  [BHA Preferred, M Adams Preferred, VP Preferred]
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-)
.................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS6020028
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 727
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS6020028
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 727
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-)

 

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