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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values 1981-10-01 2024-11-21
n/a Peak Measurements 1982-02-03 2023-07-09
n/a Site Visits 1981-08-23 2024-10-17
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2023-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 01472199 is associated with a Stream in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Current conditions of Discharge and Gage height are available. Water data back to 1981 are available online.

Prior to February 24, 2022, gage included broad-crested concrete control.
Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
01472199 n/a
Site name
West Branch Perkiomen Creek at Hillegass, PA n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 402226 n/a
DMS longitude 0753122 n/a
Decimal latitude 40.3739879 n/a
Decimal longitude -75.5224034 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
Pennsylvania 42
State
Pennsylvania 42
County
Montgomery County 091
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map SASSAMANSVILLE n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 290.00 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Reported method of determination. R
Altitude accuracy .1 feet n/a
Altitude datum
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 NGVD29
Subbasin hydrologic unit
Schuylkill 02040203
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site YNYNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 19900111 n/a
Drainage area
23.0 square miles n/a
Contributing drainage area 23.0 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 3 n/a

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