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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Unit Values 2008-11-06 2024-11-21
n/a Site Visits 2008-09-17 2008-09-17
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2009-01-01 2013-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 05536160 is associated with a Stream in Lake County, Indiana. Current conditions of Gage height and Stream water level elevation above NAVD 1988 are available. Water data back to 2008 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
05536160 n/a
Site name
LITTLE CALUMET RIVER NEAR HAMMOND, IN n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 413406 n/a
DMS longitude 0872828 n/a
Decimal latitude 41.56836897 n/a
Decimal longitude -87.4744848 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
Indiana 18
State
Indiana 18
County
Lake County 089
Country US n/a
Land net location description SESES17 T36N R9W n/a
Name of location map HIGHLAND n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 584.31 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Interpolated from topographic map. M
Altitude accuracy .01 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
07120003
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
Stream channel
C
Flags for instruments at site YNNNYNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
20081105 n/a
Date site established or inventoried 20081106 n/a
Drainage area
14.6 square miles n/a
Contributing drainage area n/a
Time Zone abbreviation EST n/a
Site honors Daylight Saving Time
N n/a
Data reliability
n/a
Data-other GW files 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 2412-00100 n/a

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