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ID: 7013422
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013422
Record Type:
administrative
Billings (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 45 47 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 45.7833
decimal degrees
Long: 108 30 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -108.5000
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in S central Montana on Yellowstone River; metropolis of "Midland Empire"; prospered after arrival of railroad in 1883; flourished with development cattle industry & irrigated agriculture.
Names:
Billings
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Montana
(state) (
P
)
................
Yellowstone
(county) (
P
)
....................
Billings
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
established by Northern Pacific Railway in late 19th cen.
city (
C
)
agricultural center (
C
)
............
producing sugar beets, varied truck crops, wool & livestock
industrial center (
C
)
............
includes beet sugar & oil refining, meat-packing & flour milling
educational center (
C
)
............
home of Eastern Montana College & Rocky Mountain College
tourist center (
C
)
............
for Custer National forest, Grasshopper Glacier & Pictograph Cave State Monument, site of prehistoric artifacts
Sources and Contributors:
Billings..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 214
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS30002362
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 214
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS30002362
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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