| LC control no. | n 79124718 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Geographic heading | Spokane (Wash.) |
| Geographic subdivision usage | Washington (State)--Spokane |
| Variant(s) | Spokane City of Spokane (Wash.) Спокан (Wash.) Spokan (Wash.) スポケーン (Wash.) Supokēn (Wash.) Спокен (Wash.) Spoken (Wash.) Lilac City (Wash.) |
| See also | Spokane Falls (Wash.) |
| Geographic class no. | 4284 S7 |
| Beginning date | 1890 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Washington (State) |
| Special note | Non-Latin script references not evaluated. |
| Found in | GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009 (ppl; 47°39ʹ32ʺN 117°25ʹ34ʺW) Wikipedia, Dec. 14, 2010 (Spokane, Washington; City of Spokane; 47°39ʹ32ʺN 117°25ʹ30ʺW) Bulgarian page (Спокан = Spokan) Japanese page (スポケーン = Supokēn) Ukrainian page (Спокен = Spoken) Wikipedia, July 3, 2019 (Spokane, Washington; City of Spokane; city in Spokane County; official nickname is the "Lilac City"; county seat of Spokane County, a position it wrested from Cheney in 1886) GNIS, July 3, 2019 (Spokane, populated place, incorporated in 1881, reincorporated in 1890 and the current name adopted that same year; variant name: Spokane Falls; Spokane County, Washington, county seat; also lists City of Spokane, civil, Spokane County) Washington place names, via WWW, July 3, 2019 (Spokane; major city of the Inland Empire of Washington; at the falls of the Spokane River ninety miles south of the Canadian boundary in central Spokane County; on February 13, 1878, the town was platted as Spokane Falls, and in Nov. 29, 1881, was incorporated under the same name. When the town was reincorporated in 1890 the city council altered the name to its present form) |
| Geographic area code | n-us-wa |
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