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Important Legacy real-time page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 1978-11-29 1991-09-26
Inorganics, Major, Metals Water-quality 1978-11-29 1978-11-29
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 1978-11-29 1978-11-29
Microbiological Water-quality 1978-11-29 1978-11-29
Nutrient Water-quality 1978-11-29 1978-11-29
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1922-06-13 2024-11-21
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2023-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 05404500 is associated with a Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment in Sauk County, Wisconsin. Current conditions of Gage height and Precipitation are available. Water data back to 1922 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
05404500 n/a
Site name
DEVILS LAKE NEAR BARABOO, WI n/a
Site type
Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment
LK
DMS latitude 432535 n/a
DMS longitude 0894340 n/a
Decimal latitude 43.42638889 n/a
Decimal longitude -89.7277778 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 1983 NAD83
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
Wisconsin 55
State
Wisconsin 55
County
Sauk County 111
Country US n/a
Land net location description SWSES13 T11N R6E 4 n/a
Name of location map BARABOO n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 954.88 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Level or other surveyed method. L
Altitude accuracy .01 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
07070004
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site NNYNNNYNNNNYNYNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried n/a
Drainage area
4.79 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 249100100 n/a

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