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ID: 2111086
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2111086
Record Type:
administrative
Chesapeake (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 36 49 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 36.8167
decimal degrees
Long: 076 16 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -76.2667
decimal degrees
Note:
Virginia's largest city in area, extending from South Hampton Roads to the North Carolina border. It's crisscrossed by many waterways and inlets. The economy is based on oil-storage, steel, cement, and truck-farm produce.
Names:
Chesapeake
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Chesapeack
(
C
,
V
)
Norfolk County
(
C
,
V
)
South Norfolk
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Virginia
(state) (
P
)
................
Chesapeake
(independent city) (
P
)
....................
Chesapeake
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled by Colonists in early 1630s, on land previously occupied by the Chesapeake Amerindians
city (
C
)
............
formed as an independent city in 1963 by a merger of Norfolk city (incorporated 1921) & Norfolk county (created 1636)
port (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
transport point (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Chesapeack..........
[
VP
]
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS51005258
Chesapeake..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 176
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS51005258
Norfolk County..........
[
VP
]
.............................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS51005258
South Norfolk..........
[
VP
]
..........................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS51005258
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 176
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS51005258
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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