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Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Biological Water-quality 2000-07-15 2000-07-15
Information Water-quality 2000-07-15 2000-07-15
Inorganics, Major, Metals Water-quality 2000-07-15 2000-07-15
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 2000-07-15 2000-07-15
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals Water-quality 2000-07-15 2000-07-15
Inorganics, Minor, metals Water-quality 2000-07-15 2000-07-15
Nutrient Water-quality 2000-07-15 2000-07-15
Organics, other Water-quality 2000-07-15 2000-07-15
Physical Water-quality 2000-07-15 2000-07-15
Radiochemistry Water-quality 2000-07-15 2000-07-15
Sediment Water-quality 2000-07-15 2000-07-15
n/a Site Visits 2000-07-15 2000-07-15
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 05550290 is associated with a Stream in Kane County, Illinois. Water data back to 2000 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
05550290 n/a
Site name
TYLER CREEK AT RANDALL ROAD NEAR ELGIN, IL n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 420325 n/a
DMS longitude 0882018 n/a
Decimal latitude 42.05697048 n/a
Decimal longitude -88.3384138 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
Kane County 089
Country US n/a
Land net location description NENWNWS9 T41N R8E 3 n/a
Name of location map ELGIN n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 830 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Interpolated from topographic map. M
Altitude accuracy 1 feet n/a
Altitude datum
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 NGVD29
Subbasin hydrologic unit
07120006
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried n/a
Drainage area
31.4 square miles n/a
Contributing drainage area 31.4 square miles 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 11200 n/a