Skip to main content

Important for you to know:

  • New to WDFN: see current water conditions throughout the state using the new State Pages. Filter by continuous data type and age of data, view latest values, and link to graphing options to explore the data further. To learn more, read our announcement on the Water Data for the Nation blog.
Important Legacy real-time page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 1981-10-02 1984-05-16
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1925-07-17 2024-11-21
Sediment Daily Values, Water-quality 1979-10-01 1981-09-29
n/a Peak Measurements 1926-02-25 2023-02-27
n/a Site Visits 1979-10-01 2024-07-02
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2023-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 05439000 is associated with a Stream in DeKalb County, Illinois. Current conditions of Discharge and Gage height are available. Water data back to 1925 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
05439000 n/a
Site name
SOUTH BRANCH KISHWAUKEE RIVER AT DEKALB, IL n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 415552 n/a
DMS longitude 0884535 n/a
Decimal latitude 41.9311111 n/a
Decimal longitude -88.7597222 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
Illinois 17
State
Illinois 17
County
DeKalb County 037
Country US n/a
Land net location description SWNES22 T40N R4E n/a
Name of location map n/a
Scale of location map n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 831.82 feet n/a
Method altitude determined GNSS2 - Level 2 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System X
Altitude accuracy .04 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
07090006
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site NNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried n/a
Drainage area
77.7 square miles n/a
Contributing drainage area n/a
Time Zone abbreviation CST n/a
Site honors Daylight Saving Time
N 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 n/a

Operated in cooperation with:

logo for City of DeKalb
City of DeKalb
logo for USGS - Cooperative Matching Funds
USGS - Cooperative Matching Funds