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Silver Springs Shores, Florida

Census-designated place in Florida, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 3, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Silver Springs Shores is a census-designated place (CDP) in Marion County, Florida, United States. The population was 24,846 at the 2020 census, up from 6,539 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Ocala, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Editorial summary

“Silver Springs Shores, Florida” enters the record as census-designated place in Florida, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Silver, Springs and Shores can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020, 2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Silver, Springs and Shores.
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Why this record matters

“Silver Springs Shores, Florida” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Silver, Springs and Shores provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Apr 3, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2020 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Silver Springs Shores, Florida” 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.