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ID: 7014132
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014132
Record Type:
administrative
Greeley (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 40 25 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 40.4167
decimal degrees
Long: 104 42 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -104.7000
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in N Colorado near Rocky Mountain National Park & Fort Vasquez; named for Horace Greeley (leading journalist of his time) who instigated the foundation of Greeley.
Names:
Greeley
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Union Colony
(
H
,
V
)
Greely
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Colorado
(state) (
P
)
................
Weld
(county) (
P
)
....................
Greeley
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded as temperance & cooperative agricultural enterprise in 1870 by Nathan Meeker, New York Tribune's agricultural editor
city (
C
)
............
incorporated 1885
county seat (
C
)
agricultural center (
C
)
............
for irrigated farming & for large terminal stockyards for cattle feeding
manufacturing center (
C
)
............
for food processing & canning
oil field site (
C
)
mining center (
C
)
............
for coal
irrigation center (
C
)
............
for Colorado-Big Thompson water diversion project
educational center (
C
)
............
for University of Northern Colorado (1890) & Aims Community College (1970)
Sources and Contributors:
Greeley..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 352
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
V, 463
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS8012633
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
463
Greely..........
[
VP
]
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS8012633
Union Colony..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
V, 463
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 352
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
V, 463
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS8012633
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
463
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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