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ID: 7014125
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014125
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Grand Forks (inhabited place)  Grand Forks (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 47 55 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 47.9167  decimal degrees
Long: 097 01 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -97.0167  decimal degrees

Note: State's second largest city; began as North West Company post 1801 & expanded with Great Northern railroad 1880; economy based on food-processing & shipment, & nearby Grand Forks Air Force Base; site of several research laboratories & medical centers.

Names:
Grand Forks (preferred,C,V)  ............ named by French fur traders as Les Grandes Fourches ("the grand forks") in 18th cen.

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 North Dakota (state)  ............  North Dakota (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Grand Forks (county)  ................  Grand Forks (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Grand Forks (inhabited place)  ....................  Grand Forks (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  visited by French fur traders in 18th cen. & permanently settled in 1871
city (C)  ............  incorporated in 1873
county seat (C)
trade center (C)
transportation center (C)
industrial center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Grand Forks..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) V, 417
.......................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS38001941
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) V, 417
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS38001941
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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