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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Unit Values 2019-02-27 2024-11-21
n/a Peak Measurements 2019-03-04 2023-01-05
n/a Site Visits 2002-05-13 2019-02-27
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 02400175 is associated with a Stream in Cherokee County, Alabama. Current conditions of Gage height are available. Water data back to 2002 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
02400175 n/a
Site name
COOSA RIVER AT ADAMS FERRY BR NR BALLPLAY, AL n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 340512 n/a
DMS longitude 0854724 n/a
Decimal latitude 34.08676436 n/a
Decimal longitude -85.789967 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 1927 NAD27
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
Alabama 01
State
Alabama 01
County
Cherokee County 019
Country US n/a
Land net location description SESES09 T11S R08E n/a
Name of location map BALLPLAY, AL n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 556.29 feet n/a
Method altitude determined GNSS1 - Level 1 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System W
Altitude accuracy .21 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
03150105
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
Stream channel
C
Flags for instruments at site YNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 20190226 n/a
Drainage area
5605 square miles n/a
Contributing drainage area 5605 square miles n/a
Time Zone abbreviation CST n/a
Site honors Daylight Saving Time
Y n/a
Data reliability
n/a
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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