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ID: 7014573
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014573
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Virginia City (inhabited place)  Virginia City (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 39 18 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 39.3000  decimal degrees
Long: 119 38 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -119.6333  decimal degrees

Note: Located on E slope of Sierra Nevada; became boom town after discovery of famous Comstock Lode of silver & gold in 1859; "bonanza barons" G Hearst & J MacKay built huge mansions & public buildings; Samuel Clemens was a newspaper reporter here.

Names:
Virginia City (preferred,C,V)  ............ named for prospector "Old Virginia" Fennimore
Ophir (C,V)
Pleasant Hill (C,V)
Silver City (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 Nevada (state)  ............  Nevada (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Storey (county)  ................  Storey (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Virginia City (inhabited place)  ....................  Virginia City (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled in 1859
town (C)
county seat (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Ophir..........  [VP]
..............  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS32012537
Pleasant Hill..........  [VP]
..........................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS32012537
Silver City..........  [VP]
.......................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS32012537
Virginia City..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
..........................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..........................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 390-391
..........................  Rand McNally Road Atlas, USA (1986)
..........................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS32012537
..........................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1305
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 390-391
..................  Rand McNally Road Atlas, USA (1986)
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS32012537
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1305
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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