Bald Eagle Creek at Tyrone, PA

Important information about this monitoring location

Oct. 1, 1944 to Nov. 15, 1950, water-stage recorder, and Nov. 16, 1950 to Nov. 30, 1952, non-recording gage at site 0.5 mi downstream at datum 17.99 ft lower. Prior to Nov. 30, 1952, daily discharges were affected by West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company diversion.

Location details and information

Metadata Element	Location Metadata	Metadata Code
Agency	U.S. Geological Survey	USGS
Site identification number	01557500	_n/a
Site name	Bald Eagle Creek at Tyrone, PA	_n/a
Site type	Stream	ST
DMS latitude	404101	_n/a
DMS longitude	0781402	_n/a
Decimal latitude	40.6836733	_n/a
Decimal longitude	-78.23362439	_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	Blair County	013
Country	US	_n/a
Land net location description		_n/a
Name of location map		_n/a
Scale of location map		_n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface	921.80 feet	_n/a
Method altitude determined	Level or other surveyed method.	L
Altitude accuracy	.01 feet	_n/a
Altitude datum	National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929	NGVD29
Subbasin hydrologic unit	Upper Juniata	02050302
Drainage basin		_n/a
Topographic setting		_n/a
Flags for instruments at site	NNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN	_n/a
Date of first construction		_n/a
Date site established or inventoried		_n/a
Drainage area	44.1 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	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		_n/a

Operated in cooperation with:

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Safe Drinking Water

USGS - Cooperative Matching Funds