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ID: 7014154
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014154
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Evansville (inhabited place)  Evansville (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 37 58 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 37.9667  decimal degrees
Long: 087 33 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -87.5500  decimal degrees

Note: Located on the Ohio River at the bridge to Henderson, Kentucky; surrounded by fertile farmlands & coal deposits; town grew with establishment of Wabash & Erie Canal linking Lake Erie & Ohio River in 1853; produces refrigerators, & aluminum & rubber goods.

Names:
Evansville (preferred,C,V)  ............ named for Robert M Evans, a colonel of militia & member of territorial legislature

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 Vanderburgh (county)  ................  Vanderburgh (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Evansville (inhabited place)  ....................  Evansville (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded in 1812 by Hugh McGary, Jr., near the site of a prehistoric Amerindian settlement at Angel Mounds
city (C)
county seat (C)  ............  from 1818
port (C)
agricultural center (C)
transportation center (C)
power production center (C)
manufacturing center (C)
mining center (C)
university center (C)
cultural center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Evansville..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IV, 617
.......................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS18004925
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IV, 617
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS18004925
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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