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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values 1991-01-18 2024-12-27
n/a Peak Measurements 1992-06-05 2023-01-26
n/a Site Visits 1990-10-29 2024-04-18
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2023-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 01472810 is associated with a Stream in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Current conditions of Discharge and Gage height are available. Water data back to 1990 are available online.

Drainage Area does not include distributary. Stream has received pumpage from Bradshaw Reservoir since August 1989. Peak flows are unregulated. Irrigation pond for the county golf course 300 ft upstream also occasionally draw water from the creek.
Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
01472810 n/a
Site name
East Branch Perkiomen Creek near Schwenksville, PA n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 401531 n/a
DMS longitude 0752545 n/a
Decimal latitude 40.2587137 n/a
Decimal longitude -75.4287873 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 PERKIOMENVILLE n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 150 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Interpolated from topographic map. M
Altitude accuracy 20 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 NNYNYNNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 19901001 n/a
Drainage area
58.7 square miles n/a
Contributing drainage area 58.7 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 444200140 n/a

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