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Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 1950-01-12 1970-09-30
Inorganics, Major, Metals Water-quality 1950-01-12 1970-09-30
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 1950-01-12 1970-09-30
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals Water-quality 1970-09-30 1970-09-30
Inorganics, Minor, metals Water-quality 1950-01-12 1970-09-30
Nutrient Water-quality 1950-01-12 1970-09-30
Physical Groundwater Levels, Water-quality 1947-11-18 1970-09-30
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 420132093362601 is associated with a Well in Story County, Iowa. Water data back to 1947 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
420132093362601 n/a
Site name
083N24W02DBCD 03173 1947Ames 5 n/a
Site type
Well
GW
DMS latitude 420136 n/a
DMS longitude 0933631 n/a
Decimal latitude 42.02665285 n/a
Decimal longitude -93.6088287 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
Iowa 19
State
Iowa 19
County
Story County 169
Country US n/a
Land net location description SWNWSES02 T083N R24W 5 n/a
Name of location map Ames East n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 931 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Level or other surveyed method. L
Altitude accuracy 10 feet n/a
Altitude datum
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 NGVD29
Subbasin hydrologic unit
07080105
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
19470906 n/a
Date site established or inventoried n/a
Drainage area
n/a
Contributing drainage area n/a
Time Zone abbreviation CST n/a
Site honors Daylight Saving Time
Y n/a
Data reliability
Unchecked data. U
Data-other GW files YYNYNNNN n/a
National aquifer Sand and gravel aquifers (glaciated regions) N100GLCIAL
Local aquifer Pleistocene Series 112PLSC
Local aquifer type
n/a
Well depth 135 feet n/a
Hole depth
135 feet n/a
Source of depth data D n/a
Project number 461904700 n/a