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ID: 7013300
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013300
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Anderson (inhabited place)  Anderson (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 40 06 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 40.1000  decimal degrees
Long: 085 40 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -85.6667  decimal degrees

Note: Located on West Fork of White River in corn- & wheat-producing area; was founded on site of a Delaware village; town grew when natural gas was discovered in 1886; noted for nearby Mounds State Park containing several prehistoric mounds.

Names:
Anderson (preferred,C,V)
Andersontown (H,V)  ............ named for a subchief of the local Delaware, Koktowhanund, also known as William Anderson
Andersonton (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 Indiana (state)  ............  Indiana (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Madison (county)  ................  Madison (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Anderson (inhabited place)  ....................  Anderson (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded in 1863 on site of earlier settlement, incorporated in 1865
city (C)
county seat (C)  ............  from 1828
agricultural center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Anderson..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) I, 383
.................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS18000201
Andersonton..........  [VP]
.......................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS18000201
Andersontown..........  [VP]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) I, 383
.......................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS18000201
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) I, 383
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS18000201
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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