Allagash River near Allagash, Maine

Important information about this monitoring location

The elevation of this gage is 604.33 ft above NAVD of 1988. To obtain stream water surface elevation values in NAVD88, add 604.33 feet to gage height values.

Location details and information

Metadata Element	Location Metadata	Metadata Code
Agency	U.S. Geological Survey	USGS
Site identification number	01011000	_n/a
Site name	Allagash River near Allagash, Maine	_n/a
Site type	Stream	ST
DMS latitude	470411	_n/a
DMS longitude	0690446	_n/a
Decimal latitude	47.0697222	_n/a
Decimal longitude	-69.0794444	_n/a
Latitude-longitude method	Interpolated from Digital MAP.	N
Latitude-longitude accuracy	Accurate to + or - 1 sec.	S
Latitude-longitude datum	North American Datum of 1983	NAD83
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum	North American Datum of 1983	NAD83
District	Maine	23
State	Maine	23
County	Aroostook County	003
Country	US	_n/a
Land net location description		_n/a
Name of location map	Allagash	_n/a
Scale of location map	24000	_n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface	604.33 feet	_n/a
Method altitude determined	GNSS2 - Level 2 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System	X
Altitude accuracy	.20 feet	_n/a
Altitude datum	North American Vertical Datum of 1988	NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit	Allagash	01010002
Drainage basin		_n/a
Topographic setting		_n/a
Flags for instruments at site	YNNNYNNNNYNNNNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNN	_n/a
Date of first construction		_n/a
Date site established or inventoried		_n/a
Drainage area	1478 square miles	_n/a
Contributing drainage area	1228 square miles	_n/a
Time Zone abbreviation	EST	_n/a
Site honors Daylight Saving Time	Y	_n/a
Data reliability		_n/a
Data-other GW files	NNNNNNNN	_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	442300100	_n/a

Operated in cooperation with:

Allagash Wilderness Waterway Foundation

Maine Emergency Management Agency

USGS - Cooperative Matching Funds