Pecos River Near Artesia, NM

Important information about this monitoring location

The elevation of this station has been determined to be 3293.52 feet above NAVD 1988. To obtain stream water-surface elevation values in NAVD 1988 add this value to gage height values.

Location details and information

Metadata Element	Location Metadata	Metadata Code
Agency	U.S. Geological Survey	USGS
Site identification number	08396500	_n/a
Site name	PECOS RIVER NEAR ARTESIA, NM	_n/a
Site type	Stream	ST
DMS latitude	325027.1	_n/a
DMS longitude	1041925.8	_n/a
Decimal latitude	32.8408611	_n/a
Decimal longitude	-104.3238333	_n/a
Latitude-longitude method	Interpolated from Digital MAP.	N
Latitude-longitude accuracy	Accurate to + or - 1 sec.	S
Latitude-longitude datum	North American Datum of 1983	NAD83
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum	North American Datum of 1983	NAD83
District	New Mexico	35
State	New Mexico	35
County	Eddy County	015
Country	US	_n/a
Land net location description		_n/a
Name of location map		_n/a
Scale of location map		_n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface	3293.52 feet	_n/a
Method altitude determined	GNSS2 - Level 2 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System	X
Altitude accuracy	.12 feet	_n/a
Altitude datum	North American Vertical Datum of 1988	NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit	Upper Pecos-Long Arroyo	13060007
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	15300 square miles	_n/a
Contributing drainage area		_n/a
Time Zone abbreviation	MST	_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		_n/a

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USGS - Federal Priority Streamgages