Cranberry Branch Near Westminster, MD

Important information about this monitoring location

LOCATION.--on left bank 80 ft upstream from culvert, 0.7 mi upstream from mouth, and 1.8 mi northeast of Westminster. PERIOD OF RECORD.-- October 1949 to current year. GAGE.--Water-stage recorder, crest-stage gage, and concrete control. Datum of gage is 666.59 ft above North American Vertical Datum of 1988. REMARKS.--Occasional small diversions to and releases from Cranberry Reservoir, located offstream 1 mi upstream from station since August 1957, capacity, 113,700,000 gal. Beginning October 1972, occasional large diversions past the gaging station from the reservoir through a 30-inch pipe.

Location details and information

Metadata Element	Location Metadata	Metadata Code
Agency	U.S. Geological Survey	USGS
Site identification number	01585500	_n/a
Site name	CRANBERRY BRANCH NEAR WESTMINSTER, MD	_n/a
Site type	Stream	ST
DMS latitude	393533.7	_n/a
DMS longitude	0765805.7	_n/a
Decimal latitude	39.59269444	_n/a
Decimal longitude	-76.96825	_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	Carroll County	013
Country	US	_n/a
Land net location description		_n/a
Name of location map	Westminster	_n/a
Scale of location map	24000	_n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface	666.59 feet	_n/a
Method altitude determined	GNSS2 - Level 2 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System	X
Altitude accuracy	.13 feet	_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	YNNNYNYNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN	_n/a
Date of first construction	19490927	_n/a
Date site established or inventoried	19490927	_n/a
Drainage area	3.29 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	442400100	_n/a

Operated in cooperation with:

Maryland Department of the Environment