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  • New to WDFN: see current water conditions throughout the state using the new State Pages. Visit the Louisiana page for an example. Filter by continuous data type and age of data, view latest values, and link to graphing options to explore the data further. You can update the state name in the URL to visit your State Page or read our announcement on the Water Data for the Nation blog to find links to all the state and territory pages.
Important Legacy real-time page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 1966-04-14 1969-08-26
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1955-10-01 1991-09-30
n/a Peak Measurements 1956-03-06 1991-05-31
n/a Site Visits 1983-05-03 1991-10-11
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 04161500 is associated with a Stream in Oakland County, Michigan. Water data back to 1955 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
04161500 n/a
Site name
PAINT CREEK NEAR LAKE ORION, MI n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 424603 n/a
DMS longitude 0831312 n/a
Decimal latitude 42.76753105 n/a
Decimal longitude -83.219938 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
Michigan 26
State
Michigan 26
County
Oakland County 125
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 929.8 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Reported method of determination. R
Altitude accuracy .10 feet n/a
Altitude datum
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 NGVD29
Subbasin hydrologic unit
04090003
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried n/a
Drainage area
38.5 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