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Important Legacy real-time page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1902-08-01 2024-11-07
n/a Peak Measurements 1903-06-02 2023-04-12
n/a Site Visits 1952-04-04 2024-10-23
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2013-01-01 2023-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 06155500 is associated with a Stream in Phillips County, Montana. Current conditions of Discharge and Gage height are available. Water data back to 1902 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
06155500 n/a
Site name
Milk River at Malta MT n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 482143.90 n/a
DMS longitude 1075234.95 n/a
Decimal latitude 48.3621944 n/a
Decimal longitude -107.876375 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Mapping grade GPS unit (handheld accuracy range 12 to 40 ft) G
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
Phillips County 071
Country US n/a
Land net location description S18 T30N R30E M n/a
Name of location map MALTA WEST n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 2246 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Interpolated from Digital Elevation Model N
Altitude accuracy 10 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
10050004
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site YNNNYNYNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 190208 n/a
Drainage area
11654 square miles n/a
Contributing drainage area 11186 square miles n/a
Time Zone abbreviation MST n/a
Site honors Daylight Saving Time
Y n/a
Data reliability
n/a
Data-other GW files NYNNNNNN 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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