Little Madawaska River at Caribou, Maine - 01017290
Important information about this monitoring location
The elevation of this gage is 399.7 ft above North American Vertical Datum of 1988. To obtain stream water surface elevation values in NAVD88, add 399.7 feet to gage height values.
Location details and information
Metadata Element | Location Metadata | Metadata Code |
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Agency
|
U.S. Geological Survey | USGS |
Site identification number
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01017290 | n/a |
Site name
|
Little Madawaska River at Caribou, Maine | n/a |
Site type
|
Stream
|
ST |
DMS latitude | 465319 | n/a |
DMS longitude | 0675642 | n/a |
Decimal latitude | 46.8886111 | n/a |
Decimal longitude | -67.945 | n/a |
Latitude-longitude method
|
Interpolated from Digital MAP. | N |
Latitude-longitude accuracy
|
Accurate to + or - .5 sec (PLGR/PPS GPS). | 5 |
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 | Fort Fairfield NW | n/a |
Scale of location map | 24000 | n/a |
Altitude of Gage/land surface | 399.71 feet | n/a |
Method altitude determined | GNSS2 - Level 2 Quality Survey Grade Global Navigation Satellite System | X |
Altitude accuracy | .12 feet | n/a |
Altitude datum
|
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 | NAVD88 |
Subbasin hydrologic unit
|
Aroostook | 01010004 |
Drainage basin
|
n/a | |
Topographic setting
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n/a | |
Flags for instruments at site | YNNNYNYNNYNNNNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNN | n/a |
Date of first construction
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n/a | |
Date site established or inventoried | 200805 | n/a |
Drainage area
|
233 square miles | n/a |
Contributing drainage area | 233 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 | 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 | 001 | n/a |