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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values 1985-02-11 2024-11-21
n/a Peak Measurements 1986-05-13 2023-02-17
n/a Site Visits 1985-03-06 2024-10-24
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2023-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 03212980 is associated with a Stream in McDowell County, West Virginia. Current conditions of Discharge, Gage height, and Precipitation are available. Water data back to 1985 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
03212980 n/a
Site name
DRY FORK AT BEARTOWN, WV n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 372343 n/a
DMS longitude 0814810 n/a
Decimal latitude 37.39538968 n/a
Decimal longitude -81.8026142 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
McDowell County 047
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 1055.40 feet n/a
Method altitude determined GNSS2 - Level 2 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System X
Altitude accuracy .15 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
05070201
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
209 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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