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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values 2019-11-05 2024-11-24
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2020-01-01 2023-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 390242079264900 is associated with an Atmosphere in Tucker County, West Virginia. Current conditions of Precipitation are available. Water data back to 2019 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
390242079264900 n/a
Site name
METEOROLOGICAL STATION AT CANAAN VALLEY, WV n/a
Site type
Atmosphere
AT
DMS latitude 390242 n/a
DMS longitude 0792648.6 n/a
Decimal latitude 39.045 n/a
Decimal longitude -79.4468333 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from Digital MAP. N
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
West Virginia 54
State
West Virginia 54
County
Tucker County 093
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map BLACKWATER FALLS, WV n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 3229.09 feet n/a
Method altitude determined GNSS2 - Level 2 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System X
Altitude accuracy .11 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
05020004
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site NNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
20191106 n/a
Date site established or inventoried 20191107 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
n/a
Data-other GW files 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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