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  • New to WDFN: see current water conditions throughout the state using the new State Pages. Filter by continuous data type and age of data, view latest values, and link to graphing options to explore the data further. To learn more, read our announcement on the Water Data for the Nation blog.

Streamgage is threatened to be discontinued on June 30, 2025 due to insufficient funding for the Federal Priority Streamgage program. Please contact Madison May (mmay@usgs.gov) if you have an interest in continuance and/or support of data collection activities at this site.

Important Legacy real-time page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 1982-11-05 2012-09-18
Inorganics, Major, Metals Water-quality 1999-05-31 2003-07-30
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 1999-05-17 2012-09-18
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals Water-quality 1999-05-31 2003-07-30
Inorganics, Minor, metals Water-quality 1999-05-31 2003-07-30
Nutrient Water-quality 1999-05-17 2012-09-18
Organics, other Water-quality 2012-08-13 2012-09-18
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1978-10-01 2024-11-21
Sediment Water-quality 1999-05-17 2003-07-30
n/a Peak Measurements 1979-06-20 2022-06-06
n/a Site Visits 1978-09-27 2024-11-19
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2023-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 06195600 is associated with a Stream in Park County, Montana. Current conditions of Discharge and Gage height are available. Water data back to 1978 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
06195600 n/a
Site name
Shields River nr Livingston MT n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 454418.10 n/a
DMS longitude 1102846.09 n/a
Decimal latitude 45.7383611 n/a
Decimal longitude -110.4794694 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from Digital MAP. N
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Accurate to + or - .1 sec (Differentially-Corrected GPS). 1
Latitude-longitude datum
North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
Montana 30
State
Montana 30
County
Park County 067
Country US n/a
Land net location description NESENWS22 T01S R10E P n/a
Name of location map MISSION n/a
Scale of location map n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 4420 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Interpolated from topographic map. M
Altitude accuracy 1 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
10070003
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 n/a
Drainage area
846 square miles n/a
Contributing drainage area n/a
Time Zone abbreviation MST n/a
Site honors Daylight Saving Time
Y n/a
Data reliability
n/a
Data-other GW files NYNNNNNN 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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