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ID: 7014311
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014311
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Rapid City (inhabited place)  Rapid City (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 44 04 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 44.0667  decimal degrees
Long: 103 13 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -103.2167  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Rapid Creek; important gold trade center 1880s; site of Dakota School of Mines & Technology (1885), Ellesworth Air Force Base, nearby Mount Rushmore & Crazy Horse Memorial; suffered flash flood in June 1972.

Names:
Rapid City (preferred,C,V)
Hay Camp (C,V)
Rapid (C,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 South Dakota (state)  ............  South Dakota (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Pennington (county)  ................  Pennington (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Rapid City (inhabited place)  ....................  Rapid City (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled in 1876 during the Black Hills gold rush
city (C)  ............  incorporated in 1882
county seat (C)
tourist center (C)
trade center (C)
mining center (C)
manufacturing center (C)  ............  produces cement, electronics, pottery & jewelry

Sources and Contributors:
Hay Camp..........  [VP]
.................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS46005532
Rapid..........  [VP]
..............  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS46005532
Rapid City..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 942
.......................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS46005532
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 942
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS46005532
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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