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  • New to WDFN: see current water conditions throughout the state using the new State Pages. Visit the Louisiana page for an example. Filter by continuous data type and age of data, view latest values, and link to graphing options to explore the data further. You can update the state name in the URL to visit your State Page or read our announcement on the Water Data for the Nation blog to find links to all the state and territory pages.
Important Legacy real-time page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 1984-10-16 2002-09-29
Inorganics, Major, Metals Water-quality 1985-02-22 1993-03-25
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Daily Values, Water-quality 1985-01-29 1991-06-30
Inorganics, Minor, metals Water-quality 1985-02-22 2000-05-30
Microbiological Water-quality 1990-10-05 1998-09-22
Nutrient Daily Values, Water-quality 1984-10-01 2002-03-08
Organics, pesticide Water-quality 1991-06-14 1994-05-17
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1984-10-01 2005-09-30
Sediment Daily Values, Water-quality 1984-10-01 1998-09-29
n/a Peak Measurements 1985-07-25 2002-06-03
n/a Site Visits 1989-10-05 2005-10-14
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 05406470 is associated with a Stream in Dane County, Wisconsin. Water data back to 1984 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
05406470 n/a
Site name
BREWERY CREEK AT CROSS PLAINS, WI n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 430709 n/a
DMS longitude 0893825 n/a
Decimal latitude 43.11916068 n/a
Decimal longitude -89.6403997 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 SWSWS35 T8N R7E 4 n/a
Name of location map CROSS PLAINS n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 900 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Interpolated from topographic map. M
Altitude accuracy 10 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 NNNNNNYNNNNYNYNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried n/a
Drainage area
10.5 square miles n/a
Contributing drainage area 7.7 square miles 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 24919KH49 n/a