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ID: 7014454
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014454
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of San Bernardino (inhabited place)  San Bernardino (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 34 05 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 34.0833  decimal degrees
Long: 117 16 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -117.2667  decimal degrees

Note: Located at base of San Bernardino Mountains; sold to Mormons & laid out as town ca. 1852; developed as trade & processing center for local crops; main industries are Kaiser Steel Corporation, Santa Fe Railroad yards & Norton Air Force Base.

Names:
San Bernardino (preferred,C,V)  ............ since 1810

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 California (state)  ............  California (state) (P)
Hierarchy of San Bernardino (county)  ................  San Bernardino (county) (P)
Hierarchy of San Bernardino (inhabited place)  ....................  San Bernardino (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  first visited in 1772 & named by Spanish missionaries for Saint Bernardino of Siena in 1810
city (C)  ............  incorporated in 1869
county seat (C)  ............  since 1853
agricultural center (C)
industrial center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
San Bernardino..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.............................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 820
.............................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 385
.............................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS6057065
.............................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 820
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 385
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS6057065
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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