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Important Legacy real-time page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 1983-10-13 2001-10-02
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 1971-12-15 1975-08-19
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1971-10-01 2024-11-21
Sediment Water-quality 1971-12-15 1973-07-24
n/a Peak Measurements 1972-06-20 2024-05-21
n/a Site Visits 1971-09-24 2024-11-19
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2024-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 05485640 is associated with a Stream in Polk County, Iowa. Current conditions of Discharge and Gage height are available. Water data back to 1971 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
05485640 n/a
Site name
Fourmile Creek at Des Moines, IA n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 413649.7 n/a
DMS longitude 0933243.9 n/a
Decimal latitude 41.61380556 n/a
Decimal longitude -93.5455278 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
GNSS2 - Level 2 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System X
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Accurate to + or - 5 sec. F
Latitude-longitude datum
North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
Iowa 19
State
Iowa 19
County
Polk County 153
Country US n/a
Land net location description NWNENES32 T079N R23W 5 n/a
Name of location map Des Moines SW n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 795.58 feet n/a
Method altitude determined GNSS2 - Level 2 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System X
Altitude accuracy .13 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
07100008
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
Stream channel
C
Flags for instruments at site YNNNYNYNNNNNNYNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 197110 n/a
Drainage area
92.7 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 YYNNNNNN 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

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