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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 1981-10-07 1984-03-12
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1966-04-01 2024-04-25
n/a Peak Measurements 1958-01-25 2022-09-12
n/a Site Visits 1966-04-25 2024-04-16
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2022-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 01589440 is associated with a Stream in Baltimore County, Maryland. Current conditions of Discharge and Gage height are available. Water data back to 1958 are available online.

Datum of gage is 229.04 ft above North American Vertical Datum of 1988. April 1966 to April 2021, gage at site 900 ft downstream at the same gage datum. January 1958 to April 1966, non-recording gage at site 450 ft downstream at same gage datum.
Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
01589440 n/a
Site name
JONES FALLS AT SORRENTO, MD n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 392344.7 n/a
DMS longitude 0763946.4 n/a
Decimal latitude 39.39575 n/a
Decimal longitude -76.66288889 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from Digital MAP. N
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Accurate to + or - .1 sec (Differentially-Corrected GPS). 1
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 COCKEYSVILLE, MD n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 229.04 n/a
Method altitude determined Differentially corrected Global Positioning System. D
Altitude accuracy .13 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 YNNNYNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried n/a
Drainage area
25.2 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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