John,
Proposing a heading for this geographic place name is really no different
from any other. You simply need literary warrant, which you have, and you
need reference sources to back up your heading and any other variants.
You've got to search GNIS and I would suggest searching to see if Quad
Cities is listed in a general encyclopedia or dictionary. I searched the
Columbia Gazetteer of North America online and you can also cite this:
670 Columbia gaz. of No. Amer., via WWw, Nov. 19, 2002 $b (Rock Island,
city, NW Ill., on the Mississippi and Rock rivers, adjacent to Moline and
opposite Davenport, Iowa. These 3 cities, with East Moline, are called the
Quad Cities)
GNIS has the following:
670 GNIS, Nov. 19, 2002 $b (Quad Cities, variant name for Moline, Ill. and
for Rock Island, Ill.)
Since Quad Cities really represents a geographic region rather than a
jurisdiction, you need to submit this through SACO. It wouldn't be a name
authority record. I think the form it would be is:
151 Quad Cities (Ill. and Iowa)
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On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, John Lavalie wrote:
> Has anyone done a heading for a group of cities? I'm trying to establish the
> Quad Cities but I can't find any guidance in the documentation. The closest
> example is the Twin Cities, but the Quad Cities is more than 2 cities (and more
> than 4 for that matter) so it's not quite the same.
>
> 5 670 Quad Cities white & yellow pages, c2002.
> 6 670 Davenport PL website, Nov. 12, 2002 b (The Quad-Cities is the
> name given to our cluster of cities along the Mississippi River. Actually,
> there are five main cities - Davenport and Bettendorf in Iowa and Rock Island,
> Moline and East Moline in Illinois - but "quad" sticks as the name. If you
> count contiguous communities there are many more - LeClaire, Eldridge and Blue
> Grass, in Iowa, and Milan, Coal Valley, Port Byron, Carbon Cliff, Hampton,
> Hillsdale, Rapids City, Andalusia, Silvis, Colona and Cordova in Illinois. And
> more.)
>
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
>
> John Lavalie
> IAhCCS
>
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