Kentucky River at Lock 2 at Lockport, KY - 03290500

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.

Important Legacy real-time page

Location details and information

Metadata Element	Location Metadata	Metadata Code
Agency	U.S. Geological Survey	USGS
Site identification number	03290500	_n/a
Site name	KENTUCKY RIVER AT LOCK 2 AT LOCKPORT, KY	_n/a
Site type	Stream	ST
DMS latitude	382620	_n/a
DMS longitude	0845748	_n/a
Decimal latitude	38.43895654	_n/a
Decimal longitude	-84.9632844	_n/a
Latitude-longitude method	Interpolated from MAP.	M
Latitude-longitude accuracy	Accurate to + or - 5 sec.	F
Latitude-longitude datum	North American Datum of 1927	NAD27
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum	North American Datum of 1983	NAD83
District	Kentucky	21
State	Kentucky	21
County	Henry County	103
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	433.36 feet	_n/a
Method altitude determined	Interpolated from topographic map.	M
Altitude accuracy	1 feet	_n/a
Altitude datum	National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929	NGVD29
Subbasin hydrologic unit	Lower Kentucky	05100205
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	6180.0 square miles	_n/a
Contributing drainage area	5984.0 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		_n/a

Operated in cooperation with:

Kentucky River Authority

US Army Corps of Engineers - Louisville District

USGS - Cooperative Matching Funds

USGS - Federal Priority Streamgages

USGS - Observing Systems Division