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Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 1981-10-01 1982-04-14
Microbiological Water-quality 1978-10-31 1978-10-31
Physical Daily Values, Water-quality 1917-10-01 2018-09-30
n/a Peak Measurements 1905-06-15 2018-05-10
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2005-01-01 2018-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 09365500 is associated with a Stream in La Plata County, Colorado. Water data back to 1905 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
09365500 n/a
Site name
LA PLATA RIVER AT HESPERUS, CO n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 371723 n/a
DMS longitude 1080224 n/a
Decimal latitude 37.28972246 n/a
Decimal longitude -108.0406277 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
Colorado 08
State
Colorado 08
County
La Plata County 067
Country US n/a
Land net location description NESWS14 T035N R011W n/a
Name of location map HESPERUS, CO n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 8104.71 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Level or other surveyed method. L
Altitude accuracy 5 feet n/a
Altitude datum
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 NGVD29
Subbasin hydrologic unit
14080105
Drainage basin
09 n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried n/a
Drainage area
34.4 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