Deadwood River
right tributary of the Red River in British Columbia, Canada
The Deadwood River is a tributary of the Dease River in the far north of British Columbia, Canada. It forms the southeastern boundary of the Dease Plateau, which extends northward to the Yukon-British Columbia boundary and beyond.
References
"Deadwood River". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada.
"Dease Plateau". BC Geographical Names. Government of British Columbia – B.C. Geographical Names Office (BCGNO).
“Deadwood River” enters the record as right tributary of the Red River in British Columbia, Canada. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Deadwood, River and right can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 1, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q270449. Authority coordinates are 59.398, -128.208. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference.
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This entry incorporates text from “Deadwood River” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.