Lower Canyon Ferry Lake near Townsend, MT - 463811111420001
Available data
Continuous data
Daily data
Field measurements
Discrete sample data
The table below summarizes the discrete field and laboratory sample results that have been collected at this monitoring location. The sample results can be downloaded from the Download Discrete Sample Data page or by clicking the observed property link in each row of the table. The sample data are now identified by observed property, replacing the parameter and pcode USGS has used for many years. Additional information and explanation is provided in the Observed Properties and Parameter Codes section of the Code Dictionary tools .
The summary of sample data table is produced with the summary service API
Characteristic group | Observed property | Total number of results | Total number of activities | Start date | End date |
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Information | Agency analyzing sample | 2 | 2 | 2004-09-27 | 2006-01-18 |
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals | Total carbon (inorganic + organic carbon), bed sediment (dry mass basis) | 1 | 1 | 2006-01-18 | 2006-01-18 |
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals | Inorganic carbon, bed sediment (dry mass basis) | 1 | 1 | 2006-01-18 | 2006-01-18 |
Inorganics, Minor, Metals | Mercury, solids (dry mass basis) | 2 | 2 | 2004-09-27 | 2006-01-18 |
Organics, Other | Methylmercury, solids (dry mass basis) | 2 | 2 | 2004-09-27 | 2006-01-18 |
Organics, Other | Organic carbon, bed sediment (dry mass basis) | 1 | 1 | 2006-01-18 | 2006-01-18 |
Sediment | Bed sediment (dry weight), bed sediment (wet mass basis) | 2 | 2 | 2004-09-27 | 2006-01-18 |
Sediment | Loss on ignition (LOI), bed sediment (dry mass basis) | 2 | 2 | 2004-09-27 | 2006-01-18 |


Monitoring Location
- Active Monitoring Locations
USGS Parameter Group | Data Types | Start Date | End Date |
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Information | Water-quality | 2004-09-27 | 2006-01-18 |
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals | Water-quality | 2006-01-18 | 2006-01-18 |
Inorganics, Minor, metals | Water-quality | 2004-09-27 | 2006-01-18 |
Organics, other | Water-quality | 2004-09-27 | 2006-01-18 |
Sediment | Water-quality | 2004-09-27 | 2006-01-18 |
n/a | USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site | 2006-01-01 | 2006-01-01 |
Monitoring location 463811111420001 is associated with a Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment in Lewis and Clark County, Montana. Water data back to 2004 are available online.
Metadata Element | Location Metadata | Metadata Code |
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Agency
|
U.S. Geological Survey | USGS |
Site identification number
|
463811111420001 | n/a |
Site name
|
Lower Canyon Ferry Lake near Townsend, MT | n/a |
Site type
|
Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment
|
LK |
DMS latitude | 463811 | n/a |
DMS longitude | 1114200 | n/a |
Decimal latitude | 46.6363252 | n/a |
Decimal longitude | -111.7008118 | 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
|
Montana | 30 |
State
|
Montana | 30 |
County
|
Lewis and Clark County | 049 |
Country | US | n/a |
Land net location description | SENWSWS11 T10N R01W P | n/a |
Name of location map | CANYON FERRY | n/a |
Scale of location map | n/a | |
Altitude of Gage/land surface | 3797 feet | n/a |
Method altitude determined | Interpolated from topographic map. | M |
Altitude accuracy | 20 feet | n/a |
Altitude datum
|
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 | NGVD29 |
Subbasin hydrologic unit
|
Upper Missouri | 10030101 |
Drainage basin
|
n/a | |
Topographic setting
|
n/a | |
Flags for instruments at site | NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN | n/a |
Date of first construction
|
n/a | |
Date site established or inventoried | n/a | |
Drainage area
|
n/a | |
Contributing drainage area | n/a | |
Time Zone abbreviation | MST | n/a |
Site honors Daylight Saving Time
|
Y | n/a |
Data reliability
|
n/a | |
Data-other GW files | Y | 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 |