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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 1985-06-08 1992-09-22
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1985-06-08 2024-11-12
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2011-01-01 2024-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 05390500 is associated with a Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment in Vilas County, Wisconsin. Current conditions of Gage height and Lake or reservoir water surface elevation above NAVD 1988 are available. Water data back to 1985 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
05390500 n/a
Site name
ANVIL LAKE NEAR EAGLE RIVER, WI n/a
Site type
Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment
LK
DMS latitude 455700.5 n/a
DMS longitude 0890315.3 n/a
Decimal latitude 45.95013889 n/a
Decimal longitude -89.05425 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from Digital MAP. N
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
Wisconsin 55
State
Wisconsin 55
County
Vilas County 125
Country US n/a
Land net location description NWNES13 T40N R11E 4 n/a
Name of location map ANVIL LAKE n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 1601.00 feet n/a
Method altitude determined GNSS4 - Level 4 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System Z
Altitude accuracy .07 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
07070001
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
Lake or Swamp
L
Flags for instruments at site NNNNYNNNNNNNNYNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried n/a
Drainage area
4.11 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
Data have been checked by the reporting agency. C
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 24919KB45 n/a

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