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Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 1955-10-12 1993-01-22
Inorganics, Minor, metals Water-quality 2013-07-10 2013-07-10
Organics, other Water-quality 2013-07-10 2013-07-10
Physical Daily Values, Water-quality 1910-07-14 2019-11-13
Sediment Water-quality 2013-07-10 2013-07-10
n/a Peak Measurements 1911-03-27 1989-10-24
n/a Site Visits 1938-09-21 2024-09-17
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2014-01-01 2020-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 01180500 is associated with a Stream in Hampshire County, Massachusetts. Water data back to 1910 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
01180500 n/a
Site name
MIDDLE BRANCH WESTFIELD RIVER AT GOSS HEIGHTS, MA n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 421531 n/a
DMS longitude 0725223 n/a
Decimal latitude 42.25870025 n/a
Decimal longitude -72.8725975 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from MAP. M
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Accurate to + or - 1 sec. S
Latitude-longitude datum
North American Datum of 1927 NAD27
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
Massachusetts 25
State
Massachusetts 25
County
Hampshire County 015
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map CHESTER, MA n/a
Scale of location map 25000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 398.65 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Level or other surveyed method. L
Altitude accuracy .01 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
Westfield 01080206
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site YNNNYNNNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 20061130 n/a
Drainage area
52.7 square miles n/a
Contributing drainage area 52.7 square miles n/a
Time Zone abbreviation EST n/a
Site honors Daylight Saving Time
Y n/a
Data reliability
n/a
Data-other GW files NNNNNNNN 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 244100100 n/a