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Silver Run (Delaware Bay tributary)

stream in Delaware, USA

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ85801188 ↗
Source-derived summary

Silver Run is a 3.03 mi (4.88 km) long tributary to Delaware Bay in New Castle County, Delaware. Silver Run is tidal for most of its course and drains a large part of Augustine Wildlife Area.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Silver Run (Delaware Bay tributary)” as stream in Delaware, USA. 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 36-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 Silver, Delaware and tributary 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 stream in Delaware, USA. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q85801188. Authority coordinates are 39.493, -75.649. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Silver Run (Delaware Bay tributary)” 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.