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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values 2006-03-09 2024-11-21
n/a Site Visits 2002-07-03 2002-08-13
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2022-01-01
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Monitoring location 275226081481900 is associated with a Sinkhole in Polk County, Florida. Current conditions of Gage height and Stream water level elevation above NAVD 1988 are available. Water data back to 2002 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
275226081481900 n/a
Site name
GATOR SINK NEAR BARTOW FL n/a
Site type
Sinkhole
LA-SNK
DMS latitude 275226 n/a
DMS longitude 0814819 n/a
Decimal latitude 27.87388889 n/a
Decimal longitude -81.8052778 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Differentially corrected Global Positioning System. D
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Accurate to + or - .5 sec (PLGR/PPS GPS). 5
Latitude-longitude datum
North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
124 n/a
State
Florida 12
County
Polk County 105
Country US n/a
Land net location description NWSENWS15 T30S R25E n/a
Name of location map HOMELAND n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface -0.93 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Level or other surveyed method. L
Altitude accuracy .01 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
03100101
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
Flood plain
G
Flags for instruments at site YNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 20060201 n/a
Drainage area
n/a
Contributing drainage area n/a
Time Zone abbreviation EST n/a
Site honors Daylight Saving Time
Y n/a
Data reliability
Data have been checked by the reporting agency. C
Data-other GW files YY Y n/a
National aquifer Intermediate aquifer system S500INTRMD
Local aquifer Hawthorn Formation 122HTRN
Local aquifer type
Confined single aquifer C
Well depth n/a
Hole depth
-40.00 feet n/a
Source of depth data S n/a
Project number 2091AFQ00 n/a