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Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 1994-06-24 1996-05-31
Physical Water-quality 1994-06-24 1996-05-31
n/a Site Visits 1994-06-24 1996-05-31
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 05464580 is associated with a Stream in Benton County, Iowa. Water data back to 1994 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
05464580 n/a
Site name
Prairie Creek downstream of Blairstown, IA n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 415421 n/a
DMS longitude 0920242 n/a
Decimal latitude 41.9058346 n/a
Decimal longitude -92.0451814 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from MAP. M
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Accurate to + or - 5 sec. F
Latitude-longitude datum
North American Datum of 1927 NAD27
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
Iowa 19
State
Iowa 19
County
Benton County 011
Country US n/a
Land net location description NWNWNWS20 T082N R10W 5 n/a
Name of location map BLAIRSTOWN n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 820 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Interpolated from topographic map. M
Altitude accuracy 5 feet n/a
Altitude datum
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 NGVD29
Subbasin hydrologic unit
07080205
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
Flood plain
G
Flags for instruments at site NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 19940802 n/a
Drainage area
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 461900100 n/a