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ID: 2121307
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2121307
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Green Bay (inhabited place)  Green Bay (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 44 31 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 44.5167  decimal degrees
Long: 088 01 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -88.0167  decimal degrees

Note: French-Canadian explorer Jean Nicolet established trading post in area 1634; Claude-Jean Allouez founded mission nearby at present De Pere 1671; French constructed fort at mouth of Fox river 1717; ceded to US 1783; American army built fort 1816.

Names:
Green Bay (preferred,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 Wisconsin (state)  ............  Wisconsin (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Brown (county)  ................  Brown (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Green Bay (inhabited place)  ....................  Green Bay (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  oldest settlement in Wisconsin; settled by Langlade in 1745
city (C)  ............  incorporated 1854
county seat (C)  ............  since 1818
port (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Green Bay..........  [VP Preferred]
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) V, 466
....................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS55006204
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) V, 466
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS55006204
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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