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  • 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 1989-08-28 2013-07-09
Information Water-quality 1989-04-20 2015-08-05
Inorganics, Major, Metals Water-quality 1967-10-12 2019-10-08
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 1967-10-12 2013-08-05
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals Water-quality 1967-10-12 1991-03-27
Inorganics, Minor, metals Water-quality 1967-10-12 2019-10-08
Microbiological Water-quality 1989-08-28 1990-08-29
Nutrient Water-quality 1967-10-12 2013-08-05
Organics, PCBs Water-quality 1990-08-29 1990-08-29
Organics, other Water-quality 1989-08-28 2013-08-19
Organics, pesticide Water-quality 1990-08-29 2013-08-19
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1939-10-01 2024-11-21
Sediment Water-quality 1989-08-28 2015-08-05
Stable Isotopes Water-quality 2013-06-04 2013-07-30
n/a Peak Measurements 1940-06-08 2023-05-16
n/a Site Visits 1951-04-11 2024-10-24
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2022-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 05320500 is associated with a Stream in Blue Earth County, Minnesota. Current conditions of Discharge, Gage height, and Stream water level elevation above NAVD 1988 are available. Water data back to 1939 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
05320500 n/a
Site name
LE SUEUR RIVER NEAR RAPIDAN, MN n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 440635 n/a
DMS longitude 0940230 n/a
Decimal latitude 44.10968777 n/a
Decimal longitude -94.0419002 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
Blue Earth County 013
Country US n/a
Land net location description SESW S35 T108N R27W n/a
Name of location map n/a
Scale of location map n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 775.88 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
07020011
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
1110 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