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Important Inventory Page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
n/a Site Visits 1988-08-15 1988-08-15
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2005-01-01 2013-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 02178500 is associated with a Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment in Rabun County, Georgia. Water data back to 1988 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
02178500 n/a
Site name
LAKE BURTON NEAR CLAYTON, GA n/a
Site type
Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment
LK
DMS latitude 344737 n/a
DMS longitude 0833226 n/a
Decimal latitude 34.79370479 n/a
Decimal longitude -83.5404461 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
Georgia 13
State
Georgia 13
County
Rabun County 241
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 n/a
Method altitude determined n/a
Altitude accuracy n/a
Altitude datum
n/a
Subbasin hydrologic unit
Tugaloo 03060102
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
115 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