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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values 1998-10-28 2024-11-21
n/a Peak Measurements 1999-03-18 2024-04-12
n/a Site Visits 1999-02-08 2016-03-16
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2014-01-01 2024-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 02485600 is associated with a Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment in Rankin County, Mississippi. Current conditions of Gage height are available. Water data back to 1998 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
02485600 n/a
Site name
ROSS BARNETT RESERVOIR NR JACKSON, MS n/a
Site type
Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment
LK
DMS latitude 322352 n/a
DMS longitude 0900354 n/a
Decimal latitude 32.39777778 n/a
Decimal longitude -90.065 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Mapping grade GPS unit (handheld accuracy range 12 to 40 ft) G
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
Mississippi 28
State
Mississippi 28
County
Rankin County 121
Country US n/a
Land net location description NENWS 02T06N R02E O n/a
Name of location map 229B MADISON n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 0.00 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Level or other surveyed method. L
Altitude accuracy 0.1 feet n/a
Altitude datum
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 NGVD29
Subbasin hydrologic unit
03180002
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
Stream channel
C
Flags for instruments at site NNNNYNNNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 197911 n/a
Drainage area
3050.00 square miles n/a
Contributing drainage area 3050.00 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 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 452800100 n/a

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