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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 2010-10-07 2011-09-02
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1921-06-01 2024-11-13
n/a Peak Measurements 1924-05-19 2023-05-10
n/a Site Visits 1950-02-15 2024-08-05
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2023-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 04010500 is associated with a Stream in Cook County, Minnesota. Current conditions of Discharge and Gage height are available. Water data back to 1921 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
04010500 n/a
Site name
PIGEON RIVER AT MIDDLE FALLS NR GRAND PORTAGE MN n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 480044 n/a
DMS longitude 0893658 n/a
Decimal latitude 48.01210765 n/a
Decimal longitude -89.6161984 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
Minnesota 27
State
Minnesota 27
County
Cook County 031
Country US n/a
Land net location description SWNE S24 T64N R6E n/a
Name of location map n/a
Scale of location map n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 787.58 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Level or other surveyed method. L
Altitude accuracy .01 feet n/a
Altitude datum
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 NGVD29
Subbasin hydrologic unit
04010101
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
609 square miles n/a
Contributing drainage area n/a
Time Zone abbreviation CST 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 MN-00106 n/a