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Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 213
Land area (2000): 12.527831 sq. miles (32.446933 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 7.162822 sq. miles (18.551624 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 19.690653 sq. miles (50.998557 sq. km)
FIPS code: 84510
Located within: Alaska (AK), FIPS 02
Location: 60.774174 N, 148.677649 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Whittier
Housing Units (2000): 28977
Land area (2000): 14.630972 sq. miles (37.894041 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 14.630972 sq. miles (37.894041 sq. km)
FIPS code: 85292
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 33.965662 N, 118.024495 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 90601 90602 90603 90604 90605
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Whittier
Wikipedia
Whittier may refer to:
- Charles A. Whittier, American Civil War Union brevet brigadier general
- John Greenleaf Whittier, an American poet and abolitionist
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Whittier, Alaska
- Whittier Airport
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Whittier, California, named for John Greenleaf Whittier
- Whittier College
- Whittier High School
- Whittier Hills, a local name for the western end of the Puente Hills
- Whittier Narrows
- Whittier, Denver, Colorado, neighborhood
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Whittier, Iowa
- Whittier Friends Meeting House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places
- Whittier, Minneapolis, Minnesota, neighborhood
- Whittier, North Carolina
- Mt. Whittier Ski Area, a defunct New Hampshire alpine ski area
- Mount Whittier, a mountain in New Hampshire.
The Whittier line was a line on the Pacific Electric Railway that operated between 1904 and 1935. The line served Downtown Los Angeles and Whittier via Huntington Park, Rivera, and Los Nietos. Due to its roundabout route, the line quickly lost out to bus and automobile service along Whittier Boulevard.
Usage examples of "whittier".
The crowd fled in panic and anger, inflaming hundreds of young spectators who ran the few blocks to Whittier Boulevard and began trashing every store in sight.
Alan Whittier, who as a teenager had murdered his mother and sister in their trailer in Palm Desert, and then had gone on to kill six people at a gas station and three others in a supermarket parking lot, until he finally turned himself in to the police, sobbing, hysterical with guilt and remorse.
Only then did it dawn on Norman who this man was: Alan Whittier, who as a teenager had murdered his mother and sister in their trailer in Palm Desert, and then had gone on to kill six people at a gas station and three others in a supermarket parking lot, until he finally turned himself in to the police, sobbing, hysterical with guilt and remorse.