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ID: 7014316
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014316
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Oshkosh (inhabited place)  Oshkosh (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 44 01 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 44.0167  decimal degrees
Long: 088 32 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -88.5333  decimal degrees

Note: Began as a French fur-trading post; named for a local Menominee Amerindian chief; grew as a major lumbering center in the second half of the 19th cen.; downtown district destroyed by fire in 1875; now a center for woodworking & leather finishing.

Names:
Oshkosh (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 Winnebago (county)  ................  Winnebago (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Oshkosh (inhabited place)  ....................  Oshkosh (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled 1836
city (C)  ............  incorporated 1853
county seat (C)
industrial center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Oshkosh..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 695
.................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS55012325
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 695
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS55012325
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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