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Brandywine Creek

creek in southeastern Pennsylvania and Delaware, United States
Place River Q898425

Facts

10 properties

Identity

Instance of
river, Pennsylvania Scenic River[5]

Location

Country
United States[4]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 39.732°, -75.531°[7]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Delaware, Pennsylvania[2][3]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata Delaware · Pennsylvania GNIS (USGS) New Castle County edition 2026-09-26 · us-gov-usgs-pd ↗

Population and size

Length
+32[13]
More facts +5
Described by source
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10][11][12]
Drainage basin
Delaware River basin[15]
Mouth of the watercourse
Christina River[6]
Tributary
East Branch Brandywine Creek, West Branch Brandywine Creek[8][9]
Watershed area
+300[14]
🏷️ Also known as
en Brandywine Creek en Brandywine Creek (Pensylvánie a Delaware : potok) en Brandywine River de Brandywine Creek (Pensylvánie a Delaware : potok) fr Brandywine ja ブランディワイン川 ko 브랜디와인강 zh 布兰迪万河 zh 布蘭迪萬河 zh 布蘭迪萬溪
🔖 Identifiers · 12
Library of Congress Authorities ID
sh86006793
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Brandywine Creek Wilmington.jpg ↗
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Brandywine-Creek
Freebase ID
/m/03270j
GNIS Feature ID
213697
GeoNames ID
4141598
Harper's tag
brandywine-creek
J9U entity ID
987007529601005171
NE.se ID
brandywine-creek
NL CR AUT ID
ge1148723
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1231216
Yale LUX ID
place/145eb038-9705-4de5-ae78-21f3650d2e26
📚 Sources · 1
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Elevation above sea levelP2044
-5 m 2026-09-26 H/STM · US GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
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🔗 Connections
Described by source 2
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
Pennsylvania, Delaware
Country 1
United States
Instance of 1
river
Mouth of the watercourse 1
Christina River
← Tributary 1
Christina River
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Summary

Brandywine Creek is a river[1].

Body

Geography

Located in include Delaware[2], an U.S. state[16], in United States[17], founded in 1787[18], headquartered in New Castle[19] and Pennsylvania[3], an U.S. state[20], in United States[21], founded in 1787[22].

Related Entities

Delaware Pennsylvania United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [16] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [19] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [20] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [21] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [22] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → brandywine-creek
    "Created claim: Harper's tag: brandywine-creek, Matched to brandywine creek (#289920147) in Harpe…"
  2. 9w ago · IdeasMagnet · 2026-09-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Tributary → East Branch Brandywine Creek, West Branch Brandywine Creek
    Instance of → river, Pennsylvania Scenic River
    Watershed area → 300
    Country → United States
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: OpenStreetMap relation ID: 1231216, Adding OSM relation id claim from wikidata tag on relation/1231216 in United States"
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