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ID: 7014311
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014311
Record Type:
administrative
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:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
South Dakota
(state) (
P
)
................
Pennington
(county) (
P
)
....................
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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