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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values 2007-10-01 2024-11-12
n/a Site Visits 1963-02-21 1963-08-27
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2017-01-01 2023-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 01573600 is associated with a Stream in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Current conditions of Gage height are available. Water data back to 1963 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
01573600 n/a
Site name
Swatara Creek at Middletown, PA n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 401132.86 n/a
DMS longitude 0764341.58 n/a
Decimal latitude 40.1925531 n/a
Decimal longitude -76.7279083 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from MAP. M
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Unknown or unspecified. U
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
Dauphin County 043
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map MIDDLETOWN n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface n/a
Method altitude determined n/a
Altitude accuracy n/a
Altitude datum
n/a
Subbasin hydrologic unit
Lower Susquehanna-Swatara 02050305
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site NNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried n/a
Drainage area
569 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

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