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  • New to WDFN: see current water conditions throughout the state using the new State Pages. Filter by continuous data type and age of data, view latest values, and link to graphing options to explore the data further. To learn more, read our announcement on the Water Data for the Nation blog.
Important Legacy real-time page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 1958-10-24 1983-11-17
Inorganics, Major, Metals Water-quality 1971-02-23 1971-05-18
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 1969-10-14 1981-09-11
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1958-10-24 2024-11-21
n/a Peak Measurements 1959-01-22 2023-02-18
n/a Site Visits 1985-04-02 2024-10-15
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2020-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 03196600 is associated with a Stream in Braxton County, West Virginia. Current conditions of Discharge, Gage height, and Precipitation are available. Water data back to 1958 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
03196600 n/a
Site name
ELK RIVER NEAR FRAMETOWN, WV n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 383532 n/a
DMS longitude 0805305 n/a
Decimal latitude 38.59232159 n/a
Decimal longitude -80.8845474 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
West Virginia 54
State
West Virginia 54
County
Braxton County 007
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 774.81 feet n/a
Method altitude determined GNSS2 - Level 2 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System X
Altitude accuracy .07 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
05050007
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site NNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried n/a
Drainage area
751 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

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