Upper Iowa River at Lime Springs, IA

Data collection will be discontinued, July 13, 2025, due to loss of funding. Please contact the Central Midwest Water Science Center, Acting Data Chief, Clint Bailey (cbailey@usgs.gov) if you have an interest in continuance and/or support of data collection at this site.

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Location details and information

Metadata Element	Location Metadata	Metadata Code
Agency	U.S. Geological Survey	USGS
Site identification number	05387320	_n/a
Site name	Upper Iowa River at Lime Springs, IA	_n/a
Site type	Stream	ST
DMS latitude	432800.4	_n/a
DMS longitude	0921751.1	_n/a
Decimal latitude	43.46677778	_n/a
Decimal longitude	-92.2975278	_n/a
Latitude-longitude method	Interpolated from Digital MAP.	N
Latitude-longitude accuracy	Accurate to + or - .1 sec (Differentially-Corrected GPS).	1
Latitude-longitude datum	North American Datum of 1983	NAD83
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum	North American Datum of 1983	NAD83
District	Iowa	19
State	Iowa	19
County	Howard County	089
Country	US	_n/a
Land net location description	SWSWNWS20 T100N R12W 5	_n/a
Name of location map	Lime Springs NE	_n/a
Scale of location map	24000	_n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface	1186.15 feet	_n/a
Method altitude determined	GNSS2 - Level 2 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System	X
Altitude accuracy	.01 feet	_n/a
Altitude datum	North American Vertical Datum of 1988	NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit	Upper Iowa	07060002
Drainage basin	01	_n/a
Topographic setting	Stream channel	C
Flags for instruments at site	YNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN	_n/a
Date of first construction		_n/a
Date site established or inventoried	20110504	_n/a
Drainage area	181 square miles	_n/a
Contributing drainage area		_n/a
Time Zone abbreviation	CST	_n/a
Site honors Daylight Saving Time	Y	_n/a
Data reliability		_n/a
Data-other GW files	Y	_n/a
National aquifer		_n/a
Local aquifer		_n/a
Local aquifer type		_n/a
Well depth		_n/a
Hole depth		_n/a
Source of depth data		_n/a
Project number		_n/a

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Winneshiek County, Iowa