Piscataway Creek at Piscataway, MD - 01653600
Important information about this monitoring location
LOCATION.-- at downstream side of bridge on State Highway 223, at Piscataway, 0.4 mi upstream from Tinkers Creek, and 4.8 mi upstream from mouth. PERIOD OF RECORD.-- October 1965 to September 2005. October 2006 to current year. GAGE.-- Water-stage recorder, crest-stage gage, and concrete control. Datum of gage is 7.61 ft above North American Vertical Datum of 1988. Prior to April 28, 2016, gage located on left bank, 75 ft downstream at same gage datum.
Location details and information
Metadata Element | Location Metadata | Metadata Code |
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Agency
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U.S. Geological Survey | USGS |
Site identification number
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01653600 | n/a |
Site name
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PISCATAWAY CREEK AT PISCATAWAY, MD | n/a |
Site type
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Stream
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ST |
DMS latitude | 384220.8 | n/a |
DMS longitude | 0765758.3 | n/a |
Decimal latitude | 38.70577778 | n/a |
Decimal longitude | -76.9661944 | n/a |
Latitude-longitude method
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Interpolated from MAP. | M |
Latitude-longitude accuracy
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Accurate to + or - 1 sec. | S |
Latitude-longitude datum
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North American Datum of 1983 | NAD83 |
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum | North American Datum of 1983 | NAD83 |
District
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Maryland | 24 |
State
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Maryland | 24 |
County
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Prince George's County | 033 |
Country | US | n/a |
Land net location description | n/a | |
Name of location map | Piscataway | n/a |
Scale of location map | 24000 | n/a |
Altitude of Gage/land surface | 7.61 feet | n/a |
Method altitude determined | GNSS2 - Level 2 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System | X |
Altitude accuracy | .14 feet | n/a |
Altitude datum
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North American Vertical Datum of 1988 | NAVD88 |
Subbasin hydrologic unit
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Middle Potomac-Anacostia-Occoquan | 02070010 |
Drainage basin
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n/a | |
Topographic setting
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n/a | |
Flags for instruments at site | YNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN | n/a |
Date of first construction
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n/a | |
Date site established or inventoried | n/a | |
Drainage area
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39.5 square miles | n/a |
Contributing drainage area | n/a | |
Time Zone abbreviation | EST | n/a |
Site honors Daylight Saving Time
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Y | n/a |
Data reliability
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n/a | |
Data-other GW files | NNNNNNNN | n/a |
National aquifer | n/a | |
Local aquifer | n/a | |
Local aquifer type
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n/a | |
Well depth | n/a | |
Hole depth
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n/a | |
Source of depth data | n/a | |
Project number | n/a |