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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
n/a Peak Measurements 1987-07-12 2023-07-05
n/a Site Visits 1986-05-09 1989-03-22
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2013-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 02173491 is associated with a Stream in Orangeburg County, South Carolina. Water data back to 1986 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
02173491 n/a
Site name
HESS BRANCH AT MIDDLETON RD AT ORANGEBURG n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 333011 n/a
DMS longitude 0805241 n/a
Decimal latitude 33.50320899 n/a
Decimal longitude -80.87787 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
South Carolina 45
State
South Carolina 45
County
Orangeburg County 075
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map n/a
Scale of location map n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 100. feet n/a
Method altitude determined U n/a
Altitude accuracy 5 feet n/a
Altitude datum
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 NGVD29
Subbasin hydrologic unit
North Fork Edisto 03050203
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site YNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 19860509 n/a
Drainage area
.52 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 454505800 n/a