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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values 1980-10-01 2024-11-21
n/a Peak Measurements 1953-04-29 2024-04-10
n/a Site Visits 1960-05-06 2019-05-09
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2024-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 02485700 is associated with a Stream in Hinds County, Mississippi. Current conditions of Discharge and Gage height are available. Water data back to 1953 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
02485700 n/a
Site name
HANGING MOSS CREEK NR JACKSON, MS n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 322154 n/a
DMS longitude 0900841 n/a
Decimal latitude 32.365 n/a
Decimal longitude -90.1447222 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Mapping grade GPS unit (handheld accuracy range 12 to 40 ft) G
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Accurate to + or - .5 sec (PLGR/PPS GPS). 5
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
Hinds County 049
Country US n/a
Land net location description SWNES 13T06N R01E O n/a
Name of location map 229C JACKSON n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 259.77 feet n/a
Method altitude determined GNSS2 - Level 2 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System X
Altitude accuracy .01 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
03180002
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
Stream channel
C
Flags for instruments at site NNNNYNNNNYNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 19521113 n/a
Drainage area
16.8 square miles n/a
Contributing drainage area 16.8 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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