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ID: 2032474
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2032474
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Kokomo (inhabited place)  Kokomo (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 40 29 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 40.4833  decimal degrees
Long: 086 08 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -86.1333  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Wildcat Creek; was laid out by trader David Foster on reservation of Chief La Fontaine; city grew when natural gas was discovered in 1886; noted for pioneering work in design of automobile by E Haynes & E Apperson; industry grew in WW II.

Names:
Kokomo (preferred,C,V)  ............ named for a Miami chieftain

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 Indiana (state)  ............  Indiana (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Howard (county)  ................  Howard (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Kokomo (inhabited place)  ....................  Kokomo (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  laid out in 1844, modern city dates from 1886
city (C)
manufacturing center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Kokomo..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 935
.................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS18008635
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 935
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS18008635
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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