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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values 1974-07-01 2024-11-21
n/a Peak Measurements 1971-05-30 2022-11-11
n/a Site Visits 1973-07-12 2024-06-25
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2023-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 02056650 is associated with a Stream in Roanoke County, Virginia. Current conditions of Discharge and Gage height are available. Water data back to 1971 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
02056650 n/a
Site name
BACK CREEK NEAR DUNDEE, VA n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 371339 n/a
DMS longitude 0795206 n/a
Decimal latitude 37.22763879 n/a
Decimal longitude -79.8680915 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from MAP. M
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Unknown or unspecified. U
Latitude-longitude datum
North American Datum of 1927 NAD27
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
Virginia 51
State
Virginia 51
County
Roanoke County 161
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map HARDY n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 822.1 feet n/a
Method altitude determined GNSS2 - Level 2 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System X
Altitude accuracy .10 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
Upper Roanoke 03010101
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site NNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 19901213 n/a
Drainage area
55.8 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 n/a

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