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Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 1940-10-30 1940-10-30
Inorganics, Major, Metals Water-quality 1940-10-30 1940-10-30
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 1940-10-30 1940-10-30
Inorganics, Minor, metals Water-quality 1940-10-30 1940-10-30
Nutrient Water-quality 1940-10-30 1940-10-30
Physical Groundwater Levels, Water-quality 1940-10-01 1940-10-30
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 420153093381401 is associated with a Well in Story County, Iowa. Water data back to 1940 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
420153093381401 n/a
Site name
083N24W03BCB 01288 1940Iowa State University n/a
Site type
Well
GW
DMS latitude 420153 n/a
DMS longitude 0933814 n/a
Decimal latitude 42.0313747 n/a
Decimal longitude -93.6374409 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 NWSWNWS03 T083N R24W 5 n/a
Name of location map Ames West n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 894 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
Valley flat
V
Flags for instruments at site NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
194010 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 n/a
Local aquifer Pleistocene Series 112PLSC
Local aquifer type
n/a
Well depth 120 feet n/a
Hole depth
120 feet n/a
Source of depth data n/a
Project number n/a