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Granite City, IL -- U.S. city in Illinois
Population (2000): 31301
Housing Units (2000): 14022
Land area (2000): 16.682987 sq. miles (43.208737 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.486917 sq. miles (1.261108 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 17.169904 sq. miles (44.469845 sq. km)
FIPS code: 30926
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 38.717849 N, 90.129529 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Housing Units (2000): 14022
Land area (2000): 16.682987 sq. miles (43.208737 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.486917 sq. miles (1.261108 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 17.169904 sq. miles (44.469845 sq. km)
FIPS code: 30926
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 38.717849 N, 90.129529 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Wikipedia
Granite City
Granite City may refer to:
- Granite City, Illinois, Illinois, United States
- Granite City, British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada
- Aberdeen, Scotland
- St. Cloud, Minnesota, Minnesota, United States
Usage examples of "granite city".
As the cab rattled north through first the suburbs, then the outlying slums and factory districts of the capital of the Empire of Ferryth, Joanna felt again the quickening of her heart and the hard twist of anxiety in her belly as she recognized landmark after landmark in that dark granite city.
I am Romnod, and borne of the blood of Teloth, but am not olf in the ways of the granite city, and yearn daily for the warm groves and the distant lands of beauty and song.
I knew almost nothing about it, other than that it was dominated by the North Sea oil industry and proudly called itself the 'Granite City'.