Skip to main content

Important for you to know:

  • New to WDFN: see current water conditions throughout the state using the new State Pages. Filter by continuous data type and age of data, view latest values, and link to graphing options to explore the data further. To learn more, read our announcement on the Water Data for the Nation blog.

Be advised that the stage-capacity relation used to compute Walker Lake storage from lake stage was changed effective October 1, 2014. For more information see Location Metadata section below for more details.

Important Legacy real-time page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1908-09-27 2024-11-06
Inorganics, Major, Metals Water-quality 1994-07-29 1995-06-26
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 1994-07-29 1995-06-26
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals Water-quality 1994-07-29 1995-06-26
Inorganics, Minor, metals Water-quality 1994-07-29 1995-06-26
Nutrient Water-quality 1994-07-29 1995-06-26
Organics, PCBs Water-quality 1994-08-31 1994-08-31
Organics, other Water-quality 1994-08-31 1994-08-31
Organics, pesticide Water-quality 1994-08-31 1994-08-31
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1882-09-08 2024-11-06
Radiochemistry Water-quality 1994-07-29 1995-06-26
Stable Isotopes Water-quality 1984-11-27 1995-06-26
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2005-01-01 2023-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 10288500 is associated with a Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment in Mineral County, Nevada. Current conditions of Elevation of reservoir water surface above datum and Reservoir storage are available. Water data back to 1882 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
10288500 n/a
Site name
WALKER LAKE NR HAWTHORNE, NV n/a
Site type
Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment
LK
DMS latitude 384036 n/a
DMS longitude 1184616 n/a
Decimal latitude 38.67658636 n/a
Decimal longitude -118.7720849 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from MAP. M
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Unknown or unspecified. U
Latitude-longitude datum
North American Datum of 1927 NAD27
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
Nevada 32
State
Nevada 32
County
Mineral County 021
Country US n/a
Land net location description SESES27 T10N R29E M n/a
Name of location map COPPER CANYON NV n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 3900. feet n/a
Method altitude determined U n/a
Altitude accuracy 10. feet n/a
Altitude datum
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 NGVD29
Subbasin hydrologic unit
16050304
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site NNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 20041103 n/a
Drainage area
4050 square miles n/a
Contributing drainage area n/a
Time Zone abbreviation PST 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 473200100 n/a

Operated in cooperation with:

logo for USGS - Cooperative Matching Funds
USGS - Cooperative Matching Funds
logo for Walker River Paiute Tribe
Walker River Paiute Tribe