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Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 1998-10-07 1999-10-22
Physical Water-quality 1998-10-07 1998-10-07
Stable Isotopes Water-quality 1998-10-07 1999-10-22
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 480401115380901 is associated with a Spring in Sanders County, Montana. Water data back to 1998 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
480401115380901 n/a
Site name
Spring no. 1 above Rock Lake near Noxon n/a
Site type
Spring
SP
DMS latitude 480401 n/a
DMS longitude 1153809 n/a
Decimal latitude 48.0669444 n/a
Decimal longitude -115.6358333 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
Montana 30
State
Montana 30
County
Sanders County 089
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map n/a
Scale of location map n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 5040 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Interpolated from topographic map. M
Altitude accuracy 1 feet n/a
Altitude datum
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 NGVD29
Subbasin hydrologic unit
17010213
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
Data have been checked by the reporting agency. C
Data-other GW files NYNNNNNN 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