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ID: 7013779
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013779
Record Type:
administrative
Fort Collins (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 40 35 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 40.5833
decimal degrees
Long: 105 05 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -105.0833
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in N Colorado on Cache la Poudre River in E foothills of Rockies; original fort was built to guard the Overland Trail but was abandoned in 1867.
Names:
Fort Collins
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Colorado
(state) (
P
)
................
Larimer
(county) (
P
)
....................
Fort Collins
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1864 around a military outpost, incorporated in 1879
city (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
............
for plastics
manufacturing center (
C
)
............
for canned goods & sugar
timber center (
C
)
agricultural center (
C
)
............
for dairying
educational center (
C
)
............
for Colorado State University (1870)
fort (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Fort Collins..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 302
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IV, 889
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS8008962
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
406
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 302
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IV, 889
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS8008962
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
406
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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