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ID: 7014130
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014130
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Great Falls (inhabited place)  Great Falls (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 47 30 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 47.5000  decimal degrees
Long: 111 18 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -111.3000  decimal degrees

Note: Located in W central Montana on Missouri River near falls for which it was named; state's 2nd largest city; important regional distributing center; Lewis & Clark documented falls in 1805; Manitoba railway sustained community since its inception in 1807.

Names:
Great Falls (preferred,C,V)

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 Montana (state)  ............  Montana (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Cascade (county)  ................  Cascade (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Great Falls (inhabited place)  ....................  Great Falls (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled in late 19th cen.
city (C)
agricultural center (C)  ............  for wheat & livestock
manufacturing center (C)  ............  for processing copper, zinc, silver, coal, natural gas, lead deposits & aluminum & for flour milling
financial center (C)
educational center (C)  ............  includes College of Great Falls, Montana School for Deaf & Blind & state rehabilitation center for physically handicapped
cultural center (C)  ............  includes studio & house of Western artist Charles M Russel
tourist center (C)  ............  is site of annual state fair & rodeo & headquarters of Lewis & Clark National forest

Sources and Contributors:
Great Falls..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) V, 444
.......................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS30010523
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) V, 444
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS30010523
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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