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Rock Creek near Red Lodge MT

Important Classic Page

Monitoring location 06209500 is associated with a STREAM in CARBON COUNTY, MONTANA. Current conditions of DISCHARGE and GAGE HEIGHT are available. Water data back to 1932 are available online.

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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 1982-06-09 2005-08-08
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1932-05-01 2020-09-26
n/a Peak Measurements 1932-05-21 2019-06-07
n/a Site Visits 1985-05-15 2020-09-02
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2019-01-01
Classic Water Data for the Nation Inventory

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
06209500 n/a
Site name
Rock Creek near Red Lodge MT n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 450510.13 n/a
DMS longitude 1091945.08 n/a
Decimal latitude 45.0861472 n/a
Decimal longitude -109.3291889 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
Carbon County 009
Country US n/a
Land net location description NWNESWS36 T08S R19E P n/a
Name of location map MOUNT MAURICE n/a
Scale of location map n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 6400 n/a
Method altitude determined Interpolated from topographic map. M
Altitude accuracy 1 n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
Clarks Fork Yellowstone 10070006
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
105 n/a
Contributing drainage area n/a
Time Zone abbreviation MST n/a
Site honors Daylight Savings 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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