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Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Inorganics, Major, Metals Water-quality 1968-08-21 1968-08-21
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 1968-08-21 1968-08-21
Physical Daily Values, Water-quality 1937-10-01 1974-09-29
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 01569000 is associated with a Stream in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Water data back to 1937 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
01569000 n/a
Site name
Stony Creek nr Dauphin, PA n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 402247 n/a
DMS longitude 0765427 n/a
Decimal latitude 40.37980926 n/a
Decimal longitude -76.9071965 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
Pennsylvania 42
State
Pennsylvania 42
County
Dauphin County 043
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map HALIFAX n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 353.75 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Interpolated from topographic map. M
Altitude accuracy 5 feet n/a
Altitude datum
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 NGVD29
Subbasin hydrologic unit
Lower Susquehanna-Swatara 02050305
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
33.20 square miles n/a
Contributing drainage area 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 n/a