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Streamgage is threatened to be discontinued on June 30, 2025 due to insufficient funding for the Federal Priority Streamgage program. Please contact Madison May (mmay@usgs.gov) if you have an interest in continuance and/or support of data collection activities at this site.

Important Legacy real-time page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 1997-05-21 2003-12-04
Inorganics, Major, Metals Water-quality 1997-06-05 2003-12-04
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 1997-06-05 2003-12-04
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals Water-quality 1997-06-05 2003-12-04
Inorganics, Minor, metals Water-quality 1997-06-05 2003-12-04
Nutrient Water-quality 1997-06-05 2003-12-04
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1908-08-01 2024-11-08
Sediment Water-quality 1997-06-05 2003-12-04
n/a Peak Measurements 1909-05-08 2023-06-08
n/a Site Visits 1981-05-22 2024-10-15
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2013-01-01 2023-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 06063000 is associated with a Stream in Lewis and Clark County, Montana. Current conditions of Discharge and Gage height are available. Water data back to 1908 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
06063000 n/a
Site name
Tenmile Creek near Helena MT n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 463618.02 n/a
DMS longitude 1120517.75 n/a
Decimal latitude 46.60500556 n/a
Decimal longitude -112.0882639 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from Digital MAP. N
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Accurate to + or - .1 sec (Differentially-Corrected GPS). 1
Latitude-longitude datum
North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
Montana 30
State
Montana 30
County
Lewis and Clark County 049
Country US n/a
Land net location description SESES22 T10N R04W M n/a
Name of location map HELENA n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 3953.21 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Differentially corrected Global Positioning System. D
Altitude accuracy .03 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
10030101
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site NNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried n/a
Drainage area
98.7 square miles n/a
Contributing drainage area n/a
Time Zone abbreviation MST n/a
Site honors Daylight Saving Time
Y n/a
Data reliability
n/a
Data-other GW files YYNNNNNN 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

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