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Little Swan, Hibbing, Minnesota

neighborhood of Hibbing, Minnesota, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ6652133 ↗
Source-derived summary

Little Swan is a neighborhood of the city of Hibbing in St. Louis County, Minnesota, United States. Previously, Little Swan was its own unincorporated community before it was annexed by the city of Hibbing. Little Swan is located at the East Swan River, near County Highway 5.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Little Swan, Hibbing, Minnesota” as neighborhood of Hibbing, Minnesota, United States. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 47-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Little, Swan and Hibbing can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as neighborhood of Hibbing, Minnesota, United States. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6652133. VIAF identifies the subject as 144344086. The Library of Congress control number is n87865336. Authority coordinates are 47.297, -92.831. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Little Swan, Hibbing, Minnesota” 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.