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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Unit Values 2012-11-02 2024-11-15
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2013-01-01 2013-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 01599200 is associated with a Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment in Grant County, West Virginia. Current conditions of Gage height are available. Water data back to 2012 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
01599200 n/a
Site name
LINTON CREEK NEAR LAUREL DALE, WV n/a
Site type
Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment
LK
DMS latitude 391610 n/a
DMS longitude 0790753 n/a
Decimal latitude 39.26944444 n/a
Decimal longitude -79.13138889 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 1983 NAD83
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
West Virginia 54
State
West Virginia 54
County
Grant County 023
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map Mount Storm n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 1599.50 feet n/a
Method altitude determined GNSS2 - Level 2 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System X
Altitude accuracy .08 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
North Branch Potomac 02070002
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
Stream channel
C
Flags for instruments at site NNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried n/a
Drainage area
5.02 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
Data have been checked by the reporting agency. C
Data-other GW files 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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