Kentucky River at Lock 4 at Frankfort, KY - 03287500
This site can be affected by variable backwater. During certain flows, discharge at this site is calculated by a complex method that uses the water surface slope between a Base and Auxiliary station.
Location details and information
Metadata Element | Location Metadata | Metadata Code |
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Agency
|
U.S. Geological Survey | USGS |
Site identification number
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03287500 | n/a |
Site name
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KENTUCKY RIVER AT LOCK 4 AT FRANKFORT, KY | n/a |
Site type
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Stream
|
ST |
DMS latitude | 381240.8 | n/a |
DMS longitude | 0845226.8 | n/a |
Decimal latitude | 38.2113333 | n/a |
Decimal longitude | -84.8741111 | n/a |
Latitude-longitude method
|
Interpolated from Digital MAP. | N |
Latitude-longitude accuracy
|
Accurate to + or - .1 sec (Differentially-Corrected GPS). | 1 |
Latitude-longitude datum
|
North American Datum of 1983 | NAD83 |
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum | North American Datum of 1983 | NAD83 |
District
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Kentucky | 21 |
State
|
Kentucky | 21 |
County
|
Franklin County | 073 |
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 | 461.58 feet | n/a |
Method altitude determined | Level or other surveyed method. | L |
Altitude accuracy | .01 feet | n/a |
Altitude datum
|
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 | NAVD88 |
Subbasin hydrologic unit
|
Lower Kentucky | 05100205 |
Drainage basin
|
n/a | |
Topographic setting
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n/a | |
Flags for instruments at site | NNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN | n/a |
Date of first construction
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n/a | |
Date site established or inventoried | n/a | |
Drainage area
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5411.0 square miles | n/a |
Contributing drainage area | 5292.00 square miles | 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 | 452107100 | n/a |