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Important Legacy real-time page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Nutrient Water-quality 1975-07-21 1975-07-21
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1952-03-10 2024-11-21
Sediment Water-quality 1976-12-02 1979-01-24
n/a Peak Measurements 1940-01-01 2024-05-03
n/a Site Visits 1952-02-03 2024-10-21
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2005-01-01 2024-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 08031000 is associated with a Stream in Orange County, Texas. Current conditions of Discharge, Gage height, and Precipitation are available. Water data back to 1940 are available online.

The elevation of this station has been determined to be 1.62 feet below NAVD 1988. To obtain stream water-surface elevation values in NAVD 1988 subtract 1.62 feet from gage height values.
Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
08031000 n/a
Site name
Cow Bayou nr Mauriceville, TX n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 301110 n/a
DMS longitude 0935430 n/a
Decimal latitude 30.18632045 n/a
Decimal longitude -93.9085058 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
Texas 48
State
Texas 48
County
Orange County 361
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map TEXLA, TX n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface -1.62 feet n/a
Method altitude determined GNSS2 - Level 2 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System X
Altitude accuracy .23 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
12010005
Drainage basin
05 n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site NNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 20020829 n/a
Drainage area
83.3 square miles n/a
Contributing drainage area 83.3 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 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 8653-00150 n/a

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