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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values 2019-09-27 2024-11-21
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2019-01-01 2023-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 01538720 is associated with a Stream in Columbia County, Pennsylvania. Current conditions of Gage height are available. Water data back to 2019 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
01538720 n/a
Site name
Fishing Creek at Grassmere Park, PA n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 411629.5 n/a
DMS longitude 0762240.30 n/a
Decimal latitude 41.2748611 n/a
Decimal longitude -76.3778611 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Mapping grade GPS unit (handheld accuracy range 12 to 40 ft) G
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Accurate to + or - 1 sec. S
Latitude-longitude datum
North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
Pennsylvania 42
State
Pennsylvania 42
County
Columbia County 037
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map Elk Grove, PA n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 927 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Light Detection And Ranging, airplane J
Altitude accuracy 2.0 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
Upper Susquehanna-Lackawanna 02050107
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site YNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 20190923 n/a
Drainage area
53.2 square miles n/a
Contributing drainage area n/a
Time Zone abbreviation EST n/a
Site honors Daylight Saving Time
Y n/a
Data reliability
n/a
Data-other GW files 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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