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Important Legacy real-time page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 1975-04-15 1985-03-11
Inorganics, Major, Metals Water-quality 1974-09-30 1974-09-30
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 1974-09-30 1985-03-11
Microbiological Water-quality 1975-04-15 1977-07-19
Nutrient Water-quality 1974-09-30 1974-09-30
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1938-10-01 2024-11-21
Population/Community Water-quality 1975-04-15 1977-07-19
n/a Peak Measurements 1921-05-05 2022-04-14
n/a Site Visits 1964-10-07 1989-09-21
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2023-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 05585500 is associated with a Stream in Morgan County, Illinois. Current conditions of Gage height are available. Water data back to 1921 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
05585500 n/a
Site name
ILLINOIS RIVER AT MEREDOSIA, IL n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 394952.2 n/a
DMS longitude 0903335.4 n/a
Decimal latitude 39.83116667 n/a
Decimal longitude -90.5598333 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
Illinois 17
State
Illinois 17
County
Morgan County 137
Country US n/a
Land net location description SES21 T16N R13W n/a
Name of location map MEREDOSIA n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 417.68 feet n/a
Method altitude determined GNSS2 - Level 2 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System X
Altitude accuracy .04 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
07130011
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site NNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 19910227 n/a
Drainage area
26029 square miles 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 n/a

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