| LC control no. | no2002018956 |
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| Geographic heading | Moxee City (Wash.) |
| Geographic subdivision usage | Washington (State)--Moxee City |
| Variant(s) | Moxee (Wash.) Mooxee (Wash.) |
| Found in | King of the Road Map Service. Yakima & vicinity, 1999: map recto (Moxee) GNIS, Mar. 6, 2002 (Moxee City, pop. place, Wash., Yakima Co., 46°33ʹ14ʺN, 120°22ʹ55ʺW) Wash. place names database, via WWW, Mar. 6, 2002 (Moxee - a town five miles southeast of Yakima in northeast Yakima County. It was settled by Mortimer Thorp and a number of French-Canadian farmers in 1867 who specialized in hop growing. In 1921, the town was incorporated. The Indian name, which was Mooxee, "translates to Smoke on the water") |
| Geographic area code | n-us-wa |
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