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ID: 7014427
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014427
Record Type:
administrative
Roswell (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 33 23 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 33.3833
decimal degrees
Long: 104 31 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -104.5167
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in SE New Mexico on Rio Hondo River near Pecos River; named for father of first settler; prospered with construction of Walker Air Force Base in 1941, & with discovery of oil & gas nearby in 1950s.
Names:
Roswell
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
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North and Central America
(continent) (
P
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United States
(nation) (
P
)
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New Mexico
(state) (
P
)
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Chaves
(county) (
P
)
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Roswell
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded as a trading post in 1871, incorporated in 1891
city (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
oil field site (
C
)
............
for oil & gas since 1950
agricultural center (
C
)
............
for cotton, truck crops, meat, fruit, livestock & alfalfa irrigated by artesian wells
mining center (
C
)
............
for potash
trade center (
C
)
............
especially for Walker Air Force Base since 1941
educational center (
C
)
............
for New Mexico Military Institute (1891)
resort center (
C
)
............
for winter visitors
tourist center (
C
)
............
for Bottomless Lakes State Park & Lincoln National Forest
cultural center (
C
)
............
for museum, including pioneering rocketry
Sources and Contributors:
Roswell..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
547
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 198
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS35019977
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1032
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
547
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 198
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS35019977
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1032
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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