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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 1997-08-27 2001-08-10
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1987-04-24 2024-11-21
n/a Site Visits 1983-09-22 2024-09-04
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2014-01-01 2024-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 06286490 is associated with a Canal in Big Horn County, Montana. Current conditions of Discharge and Gage height are available. Water data back to 1983 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
06286490 n/a
Site name
Big Horn Canal near St. Xavier MT n/a
Site type
Canal
ST-CA
DMS latitude 451859 n/a
DMS longitude 1075504 n/a
Decimal latitude 45.3163485 n/a
Decimal longitude -107.9184433 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
Montana 30
State
Montana 30
County
Big Horn County 003
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map n/a
Scale of location map n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 3081.61 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Level or other surveyed method. L
Altitude accuracy .01 feet n/a
Altitude datum
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 NGVD29
Subbasin hydrologic unit
10080015
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site NYNNYNNNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried n/a
Drainage area
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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