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Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 1981-07-23 1983-05-14
Inorganics, Major, Metals Water-quality 1981-07-23 1983-05-05
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 1981-07-23 1983-05-05
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals Water-quality 1981-07-23 1983-05-05
Inorganics, Minor, metals Water-quality 1981-07-23 1983-05-05
Nutrient Water-quality 1981-07-23 1983-05-05
Organics, other Water-quality 1983-05-05 1983-05-05
Physical Daily Values, Water-quality 1981-03-25 1983-09-30
Radiochemistry Water-quality 1981-07-23 1981-07-23
Sediment Water-quality 1981-10-17 1983-05-14
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 05595270 is associated with a Stream in Randolph County, Illinois. Water data back to 1981 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
05595270 n/a
Site name
PLUM CREEK TRIBUTARY NEAR TILDEN, IL n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 381113 n/a
DMS longitude 0894321 n/a
Decimal latitude 38.18699339 n/a
Decimal longitude -89.7225989 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from MAP. M
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Unknown or unspecified. U
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
Randolph County 157
Country US n/a
Land net location description NWNWS14 T4S R6W n/a
Name of location map n/a
Scale of location map n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 449.85 feet n/a
Method altitude determined U n/a
Altitude accuracy .01 feet n/a
Altitude datum
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 NGVD29
Subbasin hydrologic unit
07140204
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
0.59 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