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ID: 7014335
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014335
Record Type:
administrative
Richmond (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 37 56 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 37.9333
decimal degrees
Long: 122 20 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -122.3333
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on NE shore of San Francisco Bay; connected to Marin county by Richmond-San Rafael Bridge; expanded with ferry service & railroads ca. 1900; center for petroleum-refining & naval bases.
Names:
Richmond
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C
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V
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Hierarchical Position:
World
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North and Central America
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United States
(nation) (
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California
(state) (
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Contra Costa
(county) (
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Richmond
(inhabited place) (
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)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
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settled as part of Rancho San Pablo by Don Francisco Castro in 1823, on location of an ancient Amerindian burial site
city (
C
)
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incorporated in 1905
port (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
petroleum refining center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Richmond..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 55
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS6026852
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
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VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 55
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS6026852
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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