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ID: 2077588 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2077588			Record Type: administrative

Fargo (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 46 52 00 N degrees minutes			Lat: 46.8667 decimal degrees
Long: 096 47 00 W degrees minutes			Long: -96.7833 decimal degrees

Note: State's largest city; located on Red River; began as rail & stagecoach outpost & expanded as shipment point for local wheat supplies; other industries include meat-packing, automobile & farm implement manufacturing; site of North Dakota State University.

Names:

Fargo (preferred,C,V)	............	named after William George Fargo, founder of Wells, Fargo & Company
Centralia (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:

World (facet)

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North and Central America (continent) (P)

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United States (nation) (P)

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North Dakota (state) (P)

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Cass (county) (P)

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Fargo (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:

inhabited place (preferred, C)	............	founded in 1871 by the Northern Pacific Railroad as an outpost for settlers
city (C)	............	incorporated in 1875
county seat (C)	............	since 1873
transportation center (C)
industrial center (C)
manufacturing center (C)
financial center (C)

Sources and Contributors:

Centralia..........	[VP]
....................	USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS38001647

Fargo..........	[VP Preferred]
..............	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IV, 683
..............	USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS38001647

Subject: .....	[VP]
..................	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IV, 683
..................	USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS38001647


Note:
English	..........	[VP]

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