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Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 1972-10-02 1973-09-13
Physical Daily Values, Water-quality 1951-10-01 1975-08-13
n/a Peak Measurements 1952-03-31 1973-11-22
n/a Site Visits 1951-04-07 1976-08-10
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 05478000 is associated with a Stream in Kossuth County, Iowa. Water data back to 1951 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
05478000 n/a
Site name
East Fork Des Moines River near Burt, IA n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 431240 n/a
DMS longitude 0941039.8 n/a
Decimal latitude 43.2110738 n/a
Decimal longitude -94.1779615 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
Iowa 19
State
Iowa 19
County
Kossuth County 109
Country US n/a
Land net location description NWNE S20 T097N R28W 5 n/a
Name of location map BURT n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 1114.42 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
07100003
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
Stream channel
C
Flags for instruments at site NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 195110 n/a
Drainage area
462 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 461900100 n/a