Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 102
Land area (2000): 0.755866 sq. miles (1.957685 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.755866 sq. miles (1.957685 sq. km)
FIPS code: 11620
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 34.322178 N, 78.928100 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 28430
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Headwords:
Cerro Gordo
Housing Units (2000): 583
Land area (2000): 0.740968 sq. miles (1.919098 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.740968 sq. miles (1.919098 sq. km)
FIPS code: 12268
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 39.891002 N, 88.733362 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 61818
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Cerro Gordo
Housing Units (2000): 21488
Land area (2000): 568.326395 sq. miles (1471.958543 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 6.798600 sq. miles (17.608293 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 575.124995 sq. miles (1489.566836 sq. km)
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 43.111998 N, 93.265669 W
Headwords:
Cerro Gordo, IA
Cerro Gordo County
Cerro Gordo County, IA
Wikipedia
Cerro Gordo ("Fat Hill" in Spanish) may refer to several places:
Mexico- Cerro Gordo (Durango)
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Cerro Gordo (Veracruz)
- The Battle of Cerro Gordo in the Mexican–American War
- Cerro Gordo, the mountain north of Teotihuacan
- Cerro Gordo (Bayamón), one of the 12 settlements in the District of Bayamón, Puerto Rico
- Cerro Gordo, Illinois
- Cerro Gordo Township, Minnesota
- Cerro Gordo, North Carolina
- Cerro Gordo, Tennessee
- Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
- Cerro Gordo, California, east of the Owens Valley
- The Cerro Gordo Mines of Inyo County, California
Cerro Gordo is one of the 12 settlements in the District of Bayamón, Puerto Rico.
Usage examples of "cerro gordo".
Whittlesey [8] ignored him, absently scratching insect bites on the back of his neck and staring up toward Cerro Gordo.
He laid siege against the fortress at Veracruz for 18 days, forcing Santa Anna to withdraw to the steep Cerro Gordo canyon with 8,000 of his best troops.
Instead, he sent part of his force to cut paths up either side of Cerro Gordo and attacked in a pincers movement, sending Santa Anna's troops into headlong retreat all the way to Mexico City.
When we got to San Luis an aide to Pacheco decided we weren't being too useful as spies, so we got assigned to a hospital detail, and stayed there while others went on south with Santa Anna to get blown apart at Cerro Gordo and Chapultepec.
I kept my fingers crossed through Sidney, Sadorus, Cerro Gordo, Decatur, and Blue Mound, and coasted into Taylorville on the fumes.