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ID: 7014300
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014300
Record Type:
administrative
Pueblo (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 38 15 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 38.2500
decimal degrees
Long: 104 36 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -104.6000
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Arkansas River in S central Colorado; Jim Beckwourth, once a warchief of Crow Indians, established a trading post here; damaged by floods in 1921 which spurred construction of dam & flood control system.
Names:
Pueblo
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Fountain City
(
H
,
V
)
Pueblo City
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Colorado
(state) (
P
)
................
Pueblo
(county) (
P
)
....................
Pueblo
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
trading post was established 1842, community founded by gold miners ca. 1858, laid out in 1860 & incorporated 1873
city (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
............
for iron & steel & for high-tech industry
manufacturing center (
C
)
agricultural center (
C
)
............
for squash, canteloupe, onions & cucumber seed produced on irrigated land
mining center (
C
)
............
for coal
transportation center (
C
)
............
for Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad (1872) & for Santa Fe line (1876) which stimulated growth, also for trucking
trade center (
C
)
tourist center (
C
)
............
for San Isabel National Forest, headquartered here
educational center (
C
)
............
for University of Southern Colorado (1933)
Sources and Contributors:
Fountain City..........
[
VP
]
..........................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 784
Pueblo..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 784
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS8027086
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
986
Pueblo City..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 784
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 784
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS8027086
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
986
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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