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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Alamo

nickname of Franciscan Mission San Antonio de Valeroin (begun 1718, dissolved 1793) in San Antonio, Texas; American Spanish, literally "poplar" (in New Spain, also "cottonwood"), from alno "the black poplar," from Latin alnus "alder" (see alder).\n

\nPerhaps so called in reference to trees growing nearby (compare Alamogordo, New Mexico, literally "big poplar," and Spanish alameda "a public walk with a row of trees on each side"); but the popular name seems to date from the period 1803-13, when the old mission was the base for a Spanish cavalry company from the Mexican town of Alamo de Parras in Nueva Vizcaya.

Wiktionary
alamo

n. A poplar tree of Southwestern U.S.; the cottonwood.

Gazetteer
Alamo, CA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in California
Population (2000): 15626
Housing Units (2000): 5497
Land area (2000): 20.573616 sq. miles (53.285418 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.003251 sq. miles (0.008421 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 20.576867 sq. miles (53.293839 sq. km)
FIPS code: 00618
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 37.858988 N, 122.032722 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 94507
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Alamo, CA
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Alamo, NM -- U.S. Census Designated Place in New Mexico
Population (2000): 1183
Housing Units (2000): 272
Land area (2000): 39.670736 sq. miles (102.746730 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 39.670736 sq. miles (102.746730 sq. km)
FIPS code: 01710
Located within: New Mexico (NM), FIPS 35
Location: 34.409157 N, 107.514762 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 87825
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Alamo, NM
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Alamo, GA -- U.S. city in Georgia
Population (2000): 1943
Housing Units (2000): 414
Land area (2000): 1.915186 sq. miles (4.960310 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.005474 sq. miles (0.014177 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.920660 sq. miles (4.974487 sq. km)
FIPS code: 00996
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 32.148305 N, 82.778565 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 30411
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Headwords:
Alamo, GA
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Alamo, ND -- U.S. city in North Dakota
Population (2000): 51
Housing Units (2000): 43
Land area (2000): 0.542334 sq. miles (1.404638 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.022344 sq. miles (0.057870 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.564678 sq. miles (1.462508 sq. km)
FIPS code: 00940
Located within: North Dakota (ND), FIPS 38
Location: 48.580065 N, 103.469390 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Alamo, IN -- U.S. town in Indiana
Population (2000): 137
Housing Units (2000): 53
Land area (2000): 0.057357 sq. miles (0.148553 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.057357 sq. miles (0.148553 sq. km)
FIPS code: 00784
Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
Location: 39.983709 N, 87.055078 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Alamo, TN -- U.S. town in Tennessee
Population (2000): 2392
Housing Units (2000): 1076
Land area (2000): 2.150025 sq. miles (5.568538 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.150025 sq. miles (5.568538 sq. km)
FIPS code: 00440
Located within: Tennessee (TN), FIPS 47
Location: 35.784201 N, 89.115729 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 38001
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Headwords:
Alamo, TN
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Alamo, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 14760
Housing Units (2000): 6208
Land area (2000): 5.719155 sq. miles (14.812543 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 5.719155 sq. miles (14.812543 sq. km)
FIPS code: 01576
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 26.185113 N, 98.117892 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 78516
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Headwords:
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Wikipedia
Alamo (disambiguation)

Alamo is the Spanish name of Populus fremontii, a species of cottonwood or poplar native to the Southwestern United States, and of Populus alba, a similar European species. The Battle of the Alamo was a battle fought during the Texas Revolution.

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Alamo (sculpture)

Alamo, also known as the Astor Place Cube or simply The Cube, is an outdoor sculpture by Bernard (Tony) Rosenthal, located on Astor Place, in the East Village, Manhattan, New York City. It takes the form of a black cube, long on each side, mounted on a corner. The cube is made of Cor-Ten steel and weighs about . The faces of the cube are not flat but have various indentations, protrusions, and ledges. The sculpture's name, Alamo, is designated on a small plaque on one corner of the base and was selected by the artist's wife because its scale and mass reminded her of the Alamo Mission.

Usage examples of "alamo".

JENNIFER RED CLOUD christened the iceberg Alamo with a bottle of the mixed waters of the Pecos, Rio Grande, Colorado, Brazos, Neches, Nueces, Trinity, and Guadalupe, the principal rivers of the Republic of Texas, which during the drought, now in its fifth year, had dwindled to little more than muddy rivulets.

This time I will be walking in your shadow from the moment you find your blessed Alamo until it floats away in little pieces.

Lagos, was devoted entirely to the report of Meyer Horowitz on the iceberg Alamo operation.

If that schedule is carried through, the Alamo will be berthed in Matagorda Bay, the Republic of Texas, shortly before the presidential conventions begin.

The other eleven men in the sparsely furnished room knew exactly what he meant: The Alamo must be destroyed.

In short, the Alamo project on which America was pinning its hopes for recovery was for Russia, and for communism as well, the promise of salvation.

To that end, Piatakov demanded every scrap of information that concerned SD-1, the Alamo operation, and Ripley Forte and his associates, their relatives, the friends of their relatives, and the relatives of their friends.

The three options concerned the iceberg Alamo, which Piatakov surmised, based on the information in his files about the Salvation, must still be part of a glacier in Antarctica, as yet unseen by man.

If successfully brought to safe harbor in Matagorda Bay, the Alamo would go far toward relieving the mounting hardships of the republic.

The Alamo had been under satellite surveillance since Triple Eye had received official U.

These so-called gyres are basically what is gong to bring the Alamo into port.

There we have to nudge the Alamo at that point into the Guiana Current that flows up the northern Brazilian coast.

Do you mean that the Alamo is going to float all the way from the Antarctic to Texas on ocean currents?

Still, the currents meander around the shores of the continents, and by the time the Alamo reaches this point, it will still have 9,300 nautical miles to go.

Figuring the current carries the Alamo at an average thirty-two nautical miles per day, it would take us 290 days to reach our destination.