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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 2015-02-23 2024-12-21
n/a Peak Measurements 2015-07-10 2023-04-15
n/a Site Visits 1969-07-29 2024-08-07
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2015-01-01 2023-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 06485950 is associated with a Stream in Woodbury County, Iowa. Current conditions of Gage height and Stream water level elevation above NAVD 1988 are available. Water data back to 1969 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
06485950 n/a
Site name
BIG SIOUX RIVER AT SIOUX CITY, IA n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 423128 n/a
DMS longitude 0962848.7 n/a
Decimal latitude 42.52443909 n/a
Decimal longitude -96.480503 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
Iowa 19
County
Woodbury County 193
Country US n/a
Land net location description NESWSWS14 T089N R48W 5 n/a
Name of location map Sioux City North n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 1060 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Interpolated from topographic map. M
Altitude accuracy 10 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 NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried n/a
Drainage area
8430 square miles n/a
Contributing drainage area 7546 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 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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