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The industrial age

1,127 places on Detourmap founded from 1800 to 1950 — mines, works, forts and the towns they left, in 101 countries. The best known is Yellowstone National Park. Dates come from Wikidata, and only 5,549 of the 39,832 places here have one.

In this era
1,127
Countries
101
Oldest
Inagua 1800
Of all dated
20%

The industrial age, by country

Other eras

Prehistoric164 The ancient world388 Medieval458 Early modern293

Questions about this page

What is the best known the industrial age place here?

Yellowstone National Park in United States. First national park in the world, located in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho in the United States.

Is this every place from that era?

No, and it is worth being plain about it: this is every place on this atlas that Wikidata gives a founding date inside the band. 5,549 of the 39,832 places here carry a date at all, so the list is a slice of a slice. It is not a survey of the period.

Where does this information come from?

Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.