Bitterroot River near Missoula MT - 12352500

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Streamgage is threatened to be discontinued on June 30, 2025 due to insufficient funding for the Federal Priority Streamgage program. Please contact Scott Whiteman (whiteman@usgs.gov) if you have an interest in continuance and/or support of data collection activities at this site.

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Gage height, feet

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Latest value

4.73 ft

Provisional

Apr 21, 2025

02:45:00 AM MDT

Selected

4.73 ft

Provisional

Apr 21, 2025

02:45:00 AM MDT

Statistics are not available at this monitoring location for the data type: Gage height, ft

Gage height, feet -- continuous data
Time	Result	Approval
2025-04-21T02:45:00.000-06:00	4.73	Provisional
2025-04-21T02:30:00.000-06:00	4.73	Provisional
2025-04-21T02:15:00.000-06:00	4.73	Provisional
2025-04-21T02:00:00.000-06:00	4.73	Provisional
2025-04-21T01:45:00.000-06:00	4.73	Provisional
2025-04-21T01:30:00.000-06:00	4.73	Provisional
2025-04-21T01:15:00.000-06:00	4.73	Provisional
2025-04-21T01:00:00.000-06:00	4.73	Provisional
2025-04-21T00:45:00.000-06:00	4.73	Provisional
2025-04-21T00:30:00.000-06:00	4.73	Provisional
2025-04-21T00:15:00.000-06:00	4.73	Provisional
2025-04-21T00:00:00.000-06:00	4.74	Provisional
2025-04-20T23:45:00.000-06:00	4.74	Provisional
2025-04-20T23:30:00.000-06:00	4.73	Provisional
2025-04-20T23:15:00.000-06:00	4.74	Provisional
2025-04-20T23:00:00.000-06:00	4.74	Provisional

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2007-10-01 - 2025-04-21

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Discharge, cubic feet per second

1991-10-01 - 2025-04-21

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2012-07-01 - 2025-04-21

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Location details and information

Metadata Element	Location Metadata	Metadata Code
Agency	U.S. Geological Survey	USGS
Site identification number	12352500	_n/a
Site name	Bitterroot River near Missoula MT	_n/a
Site type	Stream	ST
DMS latitude	464954.26	_n/a
DMS longitude	1140317.50	_n/a
Decimal latitude	46.83173889	_n/a
Decimal longitude	-114.054861	_n/a
Latitude-longitude method	Interpolated from Digital MAP.	N
Latitude-longitude accuracy	Accurate to + or - .1 sec (Differentially-Corrected GPS).	1
Latitude-longitude datum	North American Datum of 1983	NAD83
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum	North American Datum of 1983	NAD83
District	Montana	30
State	Montana	30
County	Missoula County	063
Country	US	_n/a
Land net location description	SWNWNES01 T12N R20W P	_n/a
Name of location map	SOUTHWEST MISSOULA,	_n/a
Scale of location map	24000	_n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface	3110 feet	_n/a
Method altitude determined	Interpolated from topographic map.	M
Altitude accuracy	10 feet	_n/a
Altitude datum	North American Vertical Datum of 1988	NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit	Bitterroot	17010205
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	2824 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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