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Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 1985-05-04 1991-08-18
Physical Daily Values, Water-quality 1966-11-18 2003-09-28
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 05406050 is associated with a Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment in Dane County, Wisconsin. Water data back to 1966 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
05406050 n/a
Site name
FISH LAKE NEAR SAUK CITY, WI n/a
Site type
Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment
LK
DMS latitude 431702 n/a
DMS longitude 0893915 n/a
Decimal latitude 43.28387815 n/a
Decimal longitude -89.6542885 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
Wisconsin 55
State
Wisconsin 55
County
Dane County 025
Country US n/a
Land net location description NE SW S3 T9N R7E n/a
Name of location map SAUK CITY n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 848.07 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Level or other surveyed method. L
Altitude accuracy .01 feet n/a
Altitude datum
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 NGVD29
Subbasin hydrologic unit
07070005
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site YNNNNNNNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried n/a
Drainage area
2.23 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 445517301 n/a