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Important for you to know:

  • New to WDFN: see current water conditions throughout the state using the new State Pages. Filter by continuous data type and age of data, view latest values, and link to graphing options to explore the data further. To learn more, read our announcement on the Water Data for the Nation blog.
Important Legacy real-time page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Biological Water-quality 1974-11-18 1977-09-06
Information Water-quality 1967-09-28 1977-09-06
Inorganics, Major, Metals Water-quality 1963-03-20 1977-09-06
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 1963-03-20 1977-09-06
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals Water-quality 1963-03-20 1977-06-13
Inorganics, Minor, metals Water-quality 1963-03-20 1977-06-13
Microbiological Water-quality 1974-10-08 1977-09-06
Nutrient Water-quality 1963-03-20 1977-09-06
Organics, other Water-quality 1974-10-08 1977-06-13
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1909-09-01 2024-11-21
Population/Community Water-quality 1974-11-18 1977-09-06
Sediment Water-quality 1974-10-08 1977-09-06
n/a Peak Measurements 1910-04-19 2023-04-15
n/a Site Visits 1913-01-16 2024-06-11
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2023-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 05132000 is associated with a Stream in Koochiching County, Minnesota. Current conditions of Discharge, Gage height, Precipitation, and more are available. Water data back to 1909 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
05132000 n/a
Site name
BIG FORK RIVER AT BIG FALLS, MN n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 481145 n/a
DMS longitude 0934825 n/a
Decimal latitude 48.1957849 n/a
Decimal longitude -93.8071245 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
Minnesota 27
State
Minnesota 27
County
Koochiching County 071
Country US n/a
Land net location description S35 T155N R25W 5 n/a
Name of location map BIG FALLS, MN n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 1145.77 feet n/a
Method altitude determined GNSS3 - Level 3 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System Y
Altitude accuracy .04 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
09030006
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site NNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried n/a
Drainage area
1480 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 YNNNNNNN 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-00112 n/a