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snow fence

type of fence that forces drifting snow to accumulate in a desired place
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snow fence

Summary

snow fence ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (228 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • snow fence is a type of fence[2].
  • snow fence's Commons category is recorded as Snow fences[3].
  • snow fence's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as man_made=snow_fence[4].
  • snow fence's different from is recorded as avalanche control[5].

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Definition and Type

snow fence is a type of fence[2].

Why It Matters

snow fence ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (228 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[6]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Q6804
    Verbaalpina id → C7914
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  2. 15d ago · Pyrog · 2026-08-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → fence
    Subclass of → —
    Different from → avalanche control
    Aliases → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P279]]: [[Q1809060]]"
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