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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Unit Values 2024-07-23 2024-11-21
n/a Peak Measurements 2014-06-20 2023-04-01
n/a Site Visits 1966-05-02 2024-06-03
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 05355080 is associated with a Stream in Goodhue County, Minnesota. Current conditions of Gage height and Stream water level elevation above NAVD 1988 are available. Water data back to 1966 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
05355080 n/a
Site name
PRAIRIE CREEK NEAR CANNON FALLS, MN n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 442818 n/a
DMS longitude 0930013 n/a
Decimal latitude 44.47166667 n/a
Decimal longitude -93.0036111 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Mapping grade GPS unit (handheld accuracy range 12 to 40 ft) G
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
Goodhue County 049
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 885.72 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
07040002
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 20120618 n/a
Drainage area
78.9 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