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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Unit Values 2024-07-27 2024-11-24
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Monitoring location 405240086450400 is associated with a Stream in White County, Indiana. Current conditions of Precipitation are available. Water data back to 2024 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
405240086450400 n/a
Site name
RAIN GAGE AT TIPPECANOE RIVER AT BUFFALO, IN n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 405240.3 n/a
DMS longitude 0864504.3 n/a
Decimal latitude 40.8778611 n/a
Decimal longitude -86.7511944 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Mapping grade GPS unit (handheld accuracy range 12 to 40 ft) G
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
Indiana 18
State
Indiana 18
County
White County 181
Country US n/a
Land net location description SESW S10 T28N R3W n/a
Name of location map MONON NE 56B n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface n/a
Method altitude determined n/a
Altitude accuracy n/a
Altitude datum
n/a
Subbasin hydrologic unit
05120106
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
Stream channel
C
Flags for instruments at site YNNNYNNNNNNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
20160426 n/a
Date site established or inventoried 20160513 n/a
Drainage area
1284 square miles n/a
Contributing drainage area n/a
Time Zone abbreviation EST n/a
Site honors Daylight Saving Time
N n/a
Data reliability
Data have been checked by the reporting agency. C
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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