Skip to main content

Important for you to know:

  • New to WDFN: see current water conditions throughout the state using the new State Pages. Filter by continuous data type and age of data, view latest values, and link to graphing options to explore the data further. To learn more, read our announcement on the Water Data for the Nation blog.
Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 1925-01-13 1987-02-02
Inorganics, Major, Metals Water-quality 1925-01-13 1987-02-02
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 1925-01-13 1987-02-02
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals Water-quality 1987-02-02 1987-02-02
Inorganics, Minor, metals Water-quality 1925-01-13 1987-02-02
Nutrient Water-quality 1925-01-13 1987-02-02
Organics, other Water-quality 1987-02-02 1987-02-02
Organics, pesticide Water-quality 1987-02-02 1987-02-02
Physical Groundwater Levels, Water-quality 1925-01-13 1987-02-02
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 420520088171501 is associated with a Well in Kane County, Illinois. Water data back to 1925 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
420520088171501 n/a
Site name
41N 8E-11.2g1 n/a
Site type
Well
GW
DMS latitude 420324 n/a
DMS longitude 0881709 n/a
Decimal latitude 42.05669286 n/a
Decimal longitude -88.2859125 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from MAP. M
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Accurate to + or - 1 sec. S
Latitude-longitude datum
North American Datum of 1927 NAD27
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
Illinois 17
State
Illinois 17
County
Kane County 089
Country US n/a
Land net location description NENESWS11 T 41N R 8E 3 n/a
Name of location map ELGIN n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 740.67 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Level or other surveyed method. L
Altitude accuracy 0.1 feet n/a
Altitude datum
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 NGVD29
Subbasin hydrologic unit
07120006
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
1901 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
N n/a
Data reliability
Data have been checked by the reporting agency. C
Data-other GW files YYYYNYNN n/a
National aquifer Cambrian-Ordovician aquifer system S300CAMORD
Local aquifer Ordovician-Cambrian Systems 367OVCB
Local aquifer type
n/a
Well depth 2000 feet n/a
Hole depth
2000 feet n/a
Source of depth data n/a
Project number 88801 n/a