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- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine , accessed February 3, 2012
- ↑ "Little Silver River | Natural Atlas". naturalatlas.com. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
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