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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 2002-04-10 2024-11-21
n/a Peak Measurements 2002-08-22 2023-04-09
n/a Site Visits 2001-09-12 2024-06-20
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2013-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 06481493 is associated with a Stream in Minnehaha County, South Dakota. Current conditions of Gage height and Stream water level elevation above NAVD 1988 are available. Water data back to 2001 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
06481493 n/a
Site name
SKUNK CREEK NEAR HARTFORD, SD n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 433810.1 n/a
DMS longitude 0965400.3 n/a
Decimal latitude 43.6361151 n/a
Decimal longitude -96.9004154 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from MAP. M
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Accurate to + or - 3 sec (SPS GPS). R
Latitude-longitude datum
North American Datum of 1927 NAD27
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
South Dakota 46
State
South Dakota 46
County
Minnehaha County 099
Country US n/a
Land net location description SWNWSES13 T102N R51W 5 n/a
Name of location map HARTFORD NORTH n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 1471.83 feet n/a
Method altitude determined GNSS2 - Level 2 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System X
Altitude accuracy .07 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
10170203
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
446 square miles n/a
Contributing drainage area 432 square miles n/a
Time Zone abbreviation CST n/a
Site honors Daylight Saving Time
Y n/a
Data reliability
n/a
Data-other GW files YNNNNNNN 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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