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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values 1993-10-01 2024-11-07
n/a Peak Measurements 1993-10-21 2023-05-08
n/a Site Visits 1993-09-15 2024-08-06
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2023-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 04044724 is associated with a Stream in Alger County, Michigan. Current conditions of Discharge, Gage height, and Stream water level elevation above NAVD 1988 are available. Water data back to 1993 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
04044724 n/a
Site name
AU TRAIN RIVER AT FOREST LAKE, MI n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 462027 n/a
DMS longitude 0865100 n/a
Decimal latitude 46.34077908 n/a
Decimal longitude -86.8501514 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from MAP. M
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Accurate to + or - 1 min. M
Latitude-longitude datum
North American Datum of 1927 NAD27
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
Michigan 26
State
Michigan 26
County
Alger County 003
Country US n/a
Land net location description SENES31 T46N R20W M n/a
Name of location map FOREST LAKE n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 638.56 feet n/a
Method altitude determined GNSS4 - Level 4 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System Z
Altitude accuracy 1.6 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
04020201
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site YNNNYNNNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried n/a
Drainage area
81 square miles n/a
Contributing drainage area n/a
Time Zone abbreviation EST n/a
Site honors Daylight Saving Time
N n/a
Data reliability
n/a
Data-other GW files NYNNNNNN 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 244500100 n/a

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