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ID: 7014085
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014085
Record Type:
administrative
Missoula (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 46 52 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 46.8667
decimal degrees
Long: 113 59 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -113.9833
decimal degrees
Note:
Situated at Clark Fork of Columbia River & at mouth of Bitterroot River in W Montana; 1st settler in area was Father Pierre Jean de Smet; became a division point on Northern Pacific Railway; site of Northern Forest Fire Laboratory.
Names:
Missoula
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hellgate
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Montana
(state) (
P
)
................
Missoula
(county) (
P
)
....................
Missoula
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was a trading post located on a wilderness trail between Fort Benton & Walla Walla Washington during late 19th cen.
city (
C
)
agricultural center (
C
)
............
for agricultural marketing & dairy farming
manufacturing center (
C
)
............
for lumber & paper milling & beet sugar refining
educational center (
C
)
............
includes University of Montana & other educational facilities
tourist center (
C
)
............
includes entry points to Lolo, Clearwater, Bitterroot & Flathead National Forests
Sources and Contributors:
Hellgate..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 189
Missoula..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 189
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS30016546
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 189
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS30016546
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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