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  • New to WDFN: see current water conditions throughout the state using the new State Pages. Filter by continuous data type and age of data, view latest values, and link to graphing options to explore the data further. To learn more, read our announcement on the Water Data for the Nation blog.
Important Legacy real-time page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Biological Water-quality 2010-07-09 2010-09-23
Information Water-quality 1958-07-02 2010-09-23
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 1982-09-15 2010-09-23
Microbiological Water-quality 2001-02-27 2010-09-23
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1934-10-01 2024-11-21
Sediment Water-quality 1958-07-02 1981-06-22
n/a Peak Measurements 1877-05-18 2023-07-05
n/a Site Visits 1921-06-10 2024-11-19
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2023-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 07144300 is associated with a Stream in Sedgwick County, Kansas. Current conditions of Discharge and Gage height are available. Water data back to 1877 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
07144300 n/a
Site name
ARKANSAS R AT WICHITA, KS n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 373835.96 n/a
DMS longitude 0972006.70 n/a
Decimal latitude 37.6433222 n/a
Decimal longitude -97.3351944 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
Kansas 20
State
Kansas 20
County
Sedgwick County 173
Country US n/a
Land net location description S05 T28S R01E 6 n/a
Name of location map WICHITA EAST, KS n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 1262.88 feet n/a
Method altitude determined GNSS2 - Level 2 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System X
Altitude accuracy 0.7 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
11030013
Drainage basin
07 n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site NNNNYNNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 19340701 n/a
Drainage area
40490 square miles n/a
Contributing drainage area 33227 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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