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ID: 2010491
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2010491
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Cambria (inhabited place)  Cambria (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 35 33 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 35.5500  decimal degrees
Long: 121 04 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -121.0667  decimal degrees

Elevation:
65.000  feet    19.8120  meters

Note: Native peoples settled here around 9,000 years ago; settled by Europeans & became second largest city in the area by 1880s; town declined after 1897 when coastal trade routes were ruined because railroad lines were extended north from San Luis Obispo.

Names:
Cambria (preferred,C,V)  ............ name established in 1869
Santa Rosa (H,V)
San Simeon (H,V)  ............ historical name for Cambria, not to be confused with the nearby village of the same name
Rosaville (H,V)
Slabtown (H,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 San Luis Obispo (county)  ................  San Luis Obispo (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Cambria (inhabited place)  ....................  Cambria (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was ancient Native American settlement; settled by descendants of Europeans in 1860s
town (C)
tourist center (C)
shipping center (H)
mining center (H)
agricultural center (H)
timber center (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Cambria..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Cambria (2000) accessed 06/08/2000
.................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS6042626
Rosaville..........  [VP]
....................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS6042626
San Simeon..........  [VP]
.......................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS6042626
Santa Rosa..........  [VP]
.......................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS6042626
Slabtown..........  [VP]
.................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS6042626
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Cambria (2000) accessed 06/08/2000
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS6042626
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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