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Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 92
Land area (2000): 0.348016 sq. miles (0.901358 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.348016 sq. miles (0.901358 sq. km)
FIPS code: 10180
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 41.556919 N, 99.241292 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 68828
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Comstock
Housing Units (2000): 49
Land area (2000): 0.215615 sq. miles (0.558439 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.215615 sq. miles (0.558439 sq. km)
FIPS code: 12862
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 46.659932 N, 96.746933 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 56525
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Comstock
Wikipedia
Comstock may refer to:
Comstock is a lunar crater that is located on the far side of the Moon. It lies to the northeast of the walled plain Fersman, and north of the crater Weyl.
This is an eroded crater formation with several small craters lying long the rim. One of these lies attached to the inner side of the rim and inner wall, extending part way across the floor. A cluster of small craters lie across the south-southwest rim and inner wall. The interior floor is marked by several tiny craterlets, and traces of ray material from the crater Ohm to the east-southeast.
Comstock is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- A. B. Comstock, American politician
- Ada Comstock (1876-1973), U.S. women's education pioneer
- Adam Comstock (1740—1819), Revolutionary War veteran and New York politician
- Albert C. Comstock (1845–1910), New York lawyer and politician
- Anna Botsford Comstock (1854–1930), U.S. artist, educator, and conservationist
- Anthony Comstock (1844–1915), U.S. moral reformer and namesake of the Comstock laws
- Barbara Comstock (born 1959), member of the U.S. House of Representatives
- Charles Carter Comstock (1818–1900), U.S. politician from Michigan
- Christopher Comstock (1635–1702), early settler of Norwalk, Connecticut and a deputy of the General Assembly of the Colony of Connecticut
- Cyrus B. Comstock (1831-1910), U.S. Army corps of engineers officer, member of the NAS
- Daniel Frost Comstock (1883–1970), U.S. physicist and engineer
- Daniel Webster Comstock (1840–1917), U.S. politician from Indiana
- Dorothy Comstock Riley (1924–2004), lawyer and judge from the U.S. state of Michigan
- Frank Comstock (1922–2013), American music arranger, composer and conductor
- Frank Comstock (politician) (1856–1914), American politician
- George F. Comstock (1811–1892), Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals 1860–1861
- George G. Comstock (1855–1934), American astronomer
- Henry Tompkins (or Thomas) Paige Comstock (1820–1870), American miner after whom Comstock Lode was named
- Harriet Theresa Comstock (1860-1925), American novelist and author of children's books
- Isaac N. Comstock (1808–1883), New York politician and prison warden
- John Henry Comstock (1849–1931), U.S. entomologist, co-creator of the Comstock-Needham system
- Keith Comstock (born 1955), major league baseball player
- Nanette Comstock (1866-1942), Broadway actress, niece of Isaac N. Comstock
- Noah D. Comstock (1832-1890), American politician
- Oliver C. Comstock (1780–1860), U.S. politician from New York
- "Bloody" Sam Comstock (1800-1822), leader of the Globe mutiny; killed by fellow mutineers
- Samuel Comstock (1680–1752), member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk, Connecticut
- Solomon Gilman Comstock (1842–1933), U.S. politician from Minnesota
- William Comstock (1877–1949), Governor of Michigan
- William G. Comstock (1810–1899), gardening expert, author, and founder of seed company
- William Henry Comstock (1830–1919), American-Canadian businessman and politician
Fictional characters:
- Earl Comstock, character in Neal Stephenson's novel Cryptonomicon novel
- Gordon Comstock character in George Orwell's novel Keep the Aspidistra Flying
- Julian Comstock, character in Robert Charles Wilson's novel Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America
- Radborne Comstock, character in Elizabeth Hand's novel Mortal Love
- Roger Comstock, character in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle of novels
- Zachary Hale Comstock, character in the video game BioShock Infinite
Usage examples of "comstock".
The patriarch, Thomas More Anglesey, Duke of Gunfleet, had been a contemporary, and a mortal rival, of John Comstock, who was the Earl of Epsom and the first great noble backer of the Royal Society.
Comstock had been the C, and Anglesey the first A, in the CABAL, the group of five who had run the Restoration government of Charles II.
As it was, the laboratory that those three lonely hereticks had set up on the Masham estate seemed a masque of what Wilkins and Hooke had done as guests of John Comstock.
Same thing that happened to Derek Comstock after he sent the message Billie needed him to send.
Willis Comstock Krebbs, Caucasian male, age sixty-three, born in Tucson, Arizona.
He was a principal contributor to the Comstock gubernatorial campaign.
Although none of the criminal allegations were proven by the investigating committee, the Michigan Democratic Party still did not trust Leebove and castigated Comstock for appointing him.
Under it was another busy city, down in the bowels of the earth, where a great population of men thronged in and out among an intricate maze of tunnels and drifts, flitting hither and thither under a winking sparkle of lights, and over their heads towered a vast web of interlocking timbers that held the walls of the gutted Comstock apart.
Personally, I am never in Ossining, although once I make Auburn, and once Comstock, but the scenery in these localities is nothing to speak of.
They were getting ready to transfer him to the work camp at Comstock and would only let me see him for a few minutes He was doing alright, I guess, but he still has more than three years to serve.
The system of espionage established by this man Comstock puts to shame the infamous Third Division of the Russian secret police.
Simply because Comstock is but the loud expression of the Puritanism bred in the Anglo-Saxon blood, and from whose thraldom even liberals have not succeeded in fully emancipating themselves.
Christian Temperance Unions, Purity Leagues, American Sabbath Unions, and the Prohibition Party, with Anthony Comstock as their patron saint, are the grave diggers of American art and culture.
Anthony Comstock, or some other equally ignorant policeman, has been given power to desecrate genius, to soil and mutilate the sublimest creation of nature--the human form.
Comstock had spent twenty years using his congressionally mandated (and constitutionally quite questionable) powers to persecute zealously anyone who dealt in contraceptive devices, pregnancy abortions, ribald literature and photographs, and anything else that met his rather expansive definition of “obscene.