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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values 1990-05-01 1991-09-29
n/a Site Visits 1990-05-01 1991-10-24
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 01569775 is associated with a Stream in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Water data back to 1990 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
01569775 n/a
Site name
Alexander Spring Creek near Plainfield, PA n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 401008 n/a
DMS longitude 0771545 n/a
Decimal latitude 40.16897719 n/a
Decimal longitude -77.2622055 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
Cumberland County 041
Country US n/a
Land net location description n/a
Name of location map PLAINFIELD n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 510 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Interpolated from topographic map. M
Altitude accuracy 10 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 YNNNNNYNNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 19900501 n/a
Drainage area
1.15 square miles n/a
Contributing drainage area 1.15 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 444219300 n/a