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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values 2022-10-01 2024-11-21
n/a Peak Measurements 1966-01-01 2023-02-27
n/a Site Visits 1972-07-17 1990-05-24
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2023-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 06602190 is associated with a Stream in Woodbury County, Iowa. Current conditions of Gage height are available. Water data back to 1966 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
06602190 n/a
Site name
Elliott Creek at Lawton, IA n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 422830 n/a
DMS longitude 0961122 n/a
Decimal latitude 42.47499264 n/a
Decimal longitude -96.1897457 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from MAP. M
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Accurate to + or - 5 sec. F
Latitude-longitude datum
North American Datum of 1927 NAD27
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
Iowa 19
State
Iowa 19
County
Woodbury County 193
Country US n/a
Land net location description NENWNWS03 T088N R46W 5 n/a
Name of location map Lawton NW n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface n/a
Method altitude determined n/a
Altitude accuracy n/a
Altitude datum
n/a
Subbasin hydrologic unit
10230004
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
Stream channel
C
Flags for instruments at site NNNNYNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 19660315 n/a
Drainage area
34.8 square miles n/a
Contributing drainage area n/a
Time Zone abbreviation CST n/a
Site honors Daylight Saving Time
Y n/a
Data reliability
n/a
Data-other GW files NNNNNNNN 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 461900600 n/a

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