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ID: 7014508
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014508
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Sioux City (inhabited place)  Sioux City (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 42 30 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 42.5000  decimal degrees
Long: 096 24 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -96.4000  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Missouri River in NW Iowa; site where Lewis & Clark camped & buried Sgt. Charles Floyd; Théophile Bruguier, a French-Canadian trader, settled site with his Sioux wives & their father, Chief War Eagle, who helped European pioneers in area.

Names:
Sioux City (preferred,C,V,English-P)
סו סיטי (C,U,Hebrew )
Thomsonville (H,V)  ............ used when William Thompson laid out site in 1848

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 Iowa (state)  ............  Iowa (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Woodbury (county)  ................  Woodbury (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Sioux City (inhabited place)  ....................  Sioux City (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  laid out by William Thompson in 1848 & settled by Théophile Bruguier & his Sioux wives in 1849
city (C)  ............  incorporated in 1857
county seat (C)
manufacturing center (C)  ............  for meat packing, automobile parts, tools & foundries
agricultural center (C)  ............  for grain, feed, fertilizer & flour
trade center (C)
transportation center (C)
mill center (C)  ............  for lumber
educational center (C)  ............  houses Morningside College & Briar Cliff College

Sources and Contributors:
סו סיטי..........  [IMJ]
.................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Sioux City..........  [BHA, IMJ Preferred, VP Preferred]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 842
.......................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
.......................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS19008655
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1120
Thomsonville..........  [VP]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 842
Subject: .....  [BHA, IMJ, VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 842
..................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS19008655
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1120
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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