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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values 1997-08-15 2023-03-22
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2008-01-01 2022-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 05536121 is associated with a Stream in Cook County, Illinois. Current conditions of Gage height are available. Water data back to 1997 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
05536121 n/a
Site name
CHICAGO RIVER AT CHICAGO LOCK AT CHICAGO, IL n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 415318 n/a
DMS longitude 0873627 n/a
Decimal latitude 41.88836638 n/a
Decimal longitude -87.6075518 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
Illinois 17
State
Illinois 17
County
Cook County 031
Country US n/a
Land net location description NWNESES10 T39N R14E 3 n/a
Name of location map CHICAGO LOOP n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 579.48 n/a
Method altitude determined Reported method of determination. R
Altitude accuracy .01 n/a
Altitude datum
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 NGVD29
Subbasin hydrologic unit
Chicago 07120003
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site NNNNYNNNNNNYNNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 20070907 n/a
Drainage area
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 000100 n/a

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