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Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Biological Water-quality 2001-09-12 2003-01-13
Information Water-quality 2001-09-12 2003-01-13
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 2001-09-12 2003-01-13
Microbiological Water-quality 2001-09-12 2002-11-04
Nutrient Water-quality 2001-09-12 2003-01-13
Physical Water-quality 2001-09-12 2003-01-13
Sediment Water-quality 2001-09-12 2003-01-13
n/a Site Visits 2001-09-12 2002-12-06
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 05045900 is associated with a Stream in Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Water data back to 2001 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
05045900 n/a
Site name
OTTER TAIL RIVER BELOW FERGUS FALLS, MN n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 461632 n/a
DMS longitude 0960803 n/a
Decimal latitude 46.2755152 n/a
Decimal longitude -96.1345044 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
North Dakota 38
State
Minnesota 27
County
Otter Tail County 111
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 n/a
Method altitude determined n/a
Altitude accuracy n/a
Altitude datum
n/a
Subbasin hydrologic unit
09020103
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 20011012 n/a
Drainage area
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 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-00101 n/a