Colorado Rv at Columbus, TX - 08161000

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3 mi

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USGS Parameter Group	Data Types	Start Date	End Date
Information	Water-quality	1967-10-24	1981-09-08
Inorganics, Major, Metals	Water-quality	1967-12-01	1981-09-08
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals	Water-quality	1967-11-30	1981-09-08
Nutrient	Water-quality	1967-12-01	1981-09-08
Organics, other	Water-quality	1969-06-23	1971-02-17
Organics, pesticide	Water-quality	1970-02-19	1970-02-19
Physical	Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality	1916-05-22	2025-04-13
Radiochemistry	Water-quality	1967-10-24	1981-07-07
Sediment	Daily Values, Water-quality	1957-03-21	1973-09-29
_n/a	Peak Measurements	1869-07-01	2024-01-25
_n/a	Site Visits	1916-05-22	2025-03-18
_n/a	USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site	2005-01-01	2024-01-01

Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 08161000 is associated with a Stream in Colorado County, Texas. Current conditions of Discharge, Gage height, and Precipitation are available. Water data back to 1869 are available online.

The elevation of this station has been determined to be 145.65 feet above NAVD 1988. To obtain stream water-surface elevation values in NAVD 1988 add 145.65 feet to gage height values

Metadata Element	Location Metadata	Metadata Code
Agency	U.S. Geological Survey	USGS
Site identification number	08161000	_n/a
Site name	Colorado Rv at Columbus, TX	_n/a
Site type	Stream	ST
DMS latitude	294222	_n/a
DMS longitude	0963212	_n/a
Decimal latitude	29.7063454	_n/a
Decimal longitude	-96.5369155	_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	Colorado County	089
Country	US	_n/a
Land net location description		_n/a
Name of location map	Columbus, TX	_n/a
Scale of location map	24000	_n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface	145.65 feet	_n/a
Method altitude determined	GNSS2 - Level 2 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System	X
Altitude accuracy	.35 feet	_n/a
Altitude datum	North American Vertical Datum of 1988	NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit	Lower Colorado-Cummins	12090301
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	41640 square miles	_n/a
Contributing drainage area	30237 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