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ID: 2010808
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http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2010808
Record Type:
administrative
Compton (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 33 53 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 33.8833
decimal degrees
Long: 118 13 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -118.2167
decimal degrees
Note:
Originally part of Rancho San Pedro land grant 1874; began as farming village & extensively modernized after earthquake of 1933; site of Compton Community College (1927).
Names:
Compton
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Place Types:
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founded as a Methodist colony & named after pioneer settler GD Compton in 1867, incorporated in 1888
city (
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market center (
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Sources and Contributors:
Compton..........
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VP Preferred
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Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 506
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USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS6044070
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Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 506
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USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS6044070
Note:
English
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