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Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Inorganics, Major, Metals Water-quality 1968-06-25 1973-05-14
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 1968-06-25 1973-05-14
Inorganics, Minor, metals Water-quality 1968-06-25 1973-05-14
Microbiological Water-quality 1970-12-10 1971-03-18
Nutrient Water-quality 1968-06-25 1973-05-14
Organics, other Water-quality 1968-06-25 1973-05-14
Physical Water-quality 1968-06-25 1973-05-14
n/a Site Visits 1987-11-25 1994-09-22
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 03162850 is associated with a Stream in Alleghany County, North Carolina. Water data back to 1968 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
03162850 n/a
Site name
NEW RIVER AT AMELIA, NC n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 363308 n/a
DMS longitude 0811100 n/a
Decimal latitude 36.5523492 n/a
Decimal longitude -81.1831456 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
North Carolina 37
State
North Carolina 37
County
Alleghany County 005
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 n/a
Method altitude determined n/a
Altitude accuracy n/a
Altitude datum
n/a
Subbasin hydrologic unit
05050001
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried n/a
Drainage area
820.00 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