Metadata are crucial to interpreting and understanding USGS water data. With the modernization of WDFN, we are changing the way you access and explore USGS water data metadata.
Keywords: Water Data
Water Data for the Nation (WDFN) is being modernized to simplify our data delivery and enable all data collection categories to be found from the same pages and tools. This post will orient you to where to find water data in the modernized WDFN.
Plotting hydrography data has never been easier with the latest versions of nhdplusTools and ggplot2. This blog demonstrates how to fetch and map National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) rivers and waterbodies with several reproducible examples.
Where to find and download daily data in Water Data for the Nation
We are releasing new, modernized Water Data APIs this year and are beginning the process to decommission legacy APIs. This blog discusses the decommissioning of the “gwlevels” and “SensorThings” APIs. The gwlevels API will be decommissioned beginning November 1st, 2025. The SensorThings service will be decommissioned on December 9th, 2025.
Where to find and download field measurements in Water Data for the Nation
Reproducible workflows that provide the data and tools for you to get started making your own 3D graphics of topographic, satellite, and water data
Add assertion tests to your functions to ensure assumptions are met and errors are helpful.
This blog post demonstrates how we used the core principles of user-centered design, “learn,” “build,” and “refine” to modernize Water Data for the Nation (WDFN)
The USGS Real-Time Flood Impact (RT-FI) API service helps communities protect lives and property by providing flood risk context to widely-available USGS streamgage height measurements.