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GUNPOWDER FALLS NEAR PARKTON, MD

Important Classic Page

Monitoring location 01581920 is associated with a STREAM in BALTIMORE COUNTY, MARYLAND. Current conditions of DISCHARGE, GAGE HEIGHT, and TEMPERATURE are available. Water data back to 1982 are available online.

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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 2017-10-05 2017-10-05
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 2000-07-19 2020-09-26
n/a Peak Measurements 2000-09-20 2019-03-22
n/a Site Visits 1982-11-24 2020-07-23
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2019-01-01
Classic Water Data for the Nation Inventory

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
01581920 n/a
Site name
GUNPOWDER FALLS NEAR PARKTON, MD n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 393708.6 n/a
DMS longitude 0764125.3 n/a
Decimal latitude 39.61905556 n/a
Decimal longitude -76.6903611 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from Digital MAP. N
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
Maryland 24
State
Maryland 24
County
Baltimore County 005
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map HEREFORD, MD n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 355.43 n/a
Method altitude determined Differentially corrected Global Positioning System. D
Altitude accuracy .01 n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
Gunpowder-Patapsco 02060003
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site YNNNYNNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried n/a
Drainage area
81.5 n/a
Contributing drainage area n/a
Time Zone abbreviation EST n/a
Site honors Daylight Savings 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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