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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Unit Values 2024-08-04 2024-10-22
n/a Site Visits 2011-10-12 2024-10-22
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 05056019 is associated with a Stream in Towner County, North Dakota. Water data back to 2011 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
05056019 n/a
Site name
MAUVAIS COULEE AT HIGHWAY 17 NEAR CANDO, ND n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 482911.41 n/a
DMS longitude 0990642.86 n/a
Decimal latitude 48.48650278 n/a
Decimal longitude -99.1119056 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from MAP. M
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Accurate to + or - .5 sec (PLGR/PPS GPS). 5
Latitude-longitude datum
North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
North Dakota 38
State
North Dakota 38
County
Towner County 095
Country US n/a
Land net location description NENWS25 T158N R66W 5 n/a
Name of location map CANDO NE, ND n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 1420.79 feet n/a
Method altitude determined GNSS2 - Level 2 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System X
Altitude accuracy .04 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
09020201
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
Stream channel
C
Flags for instruments at site YNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 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 8638001 n/a