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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
Information Water-quality 1960-06-01 1988-07-05
Inorganics, Major, Metals Water-quality 1960-06-01 1969-06-04
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 1960-06-01 1969-06-04
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals Water-quality 1960-06-01 1969-06-04
Inorganics, Minor, metals Water-quality 1960-06-01 1969-06-04
Nutrient Water-quality 1960-06-01 1969-06-04
Organics, other Water-quality 1967-01-12 1967-01-12
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1910-04-01 2024-12-03
Sediment Daily Values, Water-quality 1960-10-02 1988-08-31
n/a Peak Measurements 1910-03-08 2022-05-31
n/a Site Visits 1950-01-06 2024-09-12
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2022-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 05291000 is associated with a Stream in Grant County, South Dakota. Current conditions of Discharge, Gage height, and Stream water level elevation above NAVD 1988 are available. Water data back to 1910 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
05291000 n/a
Site name
WHETSTONE RIVER NEAR BIG STONE CITY, SD n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 451730 n/a
DMS longitude 0962914 n/a
Decimal latitude 45.2916316 n/a
Decimal longitude -96.487557 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
South Dakota 46
County
Grant County 051
Country US n/a
Land net location description SENW S18 T121N R46W n/a
Name of location map n/a
Scale of location map n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 995.12 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Differentially corrected Global Positioning System. D
Altitude accuracy 0.1 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
07020001
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
398 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-00111 n/a