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Important Legacy real-time page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Biological Water-quality 1975-09-05 1975-09-05
Information Water-quality 1975-09-05 2005-08-17
Inorganics, Major, Metals Water-quality 1958-08-07 1978-03-23
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 1957-10-25 1978-03-23
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals Water-quality 1975-09-05 1978-03-23
Inorganics, Minor, metals Water-quality 1975-09-05 1978-03-23
Microbiological Water-quality 1975-09-05 1975-09-05
Nutrient Water-quality 1958-08-07 1978-03-23
Organics, other Water-quality 1975-09-05 1978-03-23
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1910-01-01 2024-11-21
Population/Community Water-quality 1975-09-05 1975-09-05
Sediment Water-quality 1975-12-03 1976-08-31
n/a Peak Measurements 1906-05-30 2023-05-14
n/a Site Visits 2008-04-17 2024-09-17
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2008-01-01 2023-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 09246500 is associated with a Stream in Moffat County, Colorado. Current conditions of Discharge and Gage height are available. Water data back to 1906 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
09246500 n/a
Site name
ELKHEAD CREEK NEAR CRAIG, CO n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 403152 n/a
DMS longitude 1072608 n/a
Decimal latitude 40.5310829 n/a
Decimal longitude -107.4361735 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from MAP. M
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Accurate to + or - 1 sec. S
Latitude-longitude datum
North American Datum of 1927 NAD27
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
Colorado 08
State
Colorado 08
County
Moffat County 081
Country US n/a
Land net location description SWSES25 T007N R090W n/a
Name of location map RALPH WHITE LAKE, CO n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 6230 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Interpolated from topographic map. M
Altitude accuracy 10 feet n/a
Altitude datum
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 NGVD29
Subbasin hydrologic unit
14050001
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
222 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 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 n/a

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