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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Unit Values 2024-10-01 2024-12-27
n/a Site Visits 1995-11-27 1995-11-27
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 05045950 is associated with a Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment in Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Current conditions of Gage height are available. Water data back to 1995 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
05045950 n/a
Site name
ORWELL LAKE AT ORWELL DAM NEAR FERGUS FALLS, MN n/a
Site type
Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment
LK
DMS latitude 461259 n/a
DMS longitude 0961041 n/a
Decimal latitude 46.21638889 n/a
Decimal longitude -96.1780556 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 1983 NAD83
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
Minnesota 27
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
Lake or Swamp
L
Flags for instruments at site NNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried n/a
Drainage area
1739.00 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-00100 n/a