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  • 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.
Important Legacy real-time page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Water-quality 1982-12-01 2005-09-29
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1907-08-01 2024-11-08
n/a Peak Measurements 1894-06-01 2023-05-14
n/a Site Visits 1941-03-09 2024-10-22
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2023-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 12372000 is associated with a Stream in Lake County, Montana. Current conditions of Discharge and Gage height are available. Water data back to 1894 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
12372000 n/a
Site name
Flathead River near Polson MT n/a
Site type
Stream
ST
DMS latitude 474049.03 n/a
DMS longitude 1141448.22 n/a
Decimal latitude 47.6802861 n/a
Decimal longitude -114.2467278 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
Lake County 047
Country US n/a
Land net location description SWNESES11 T22N R21W P n/a
Name of location map POLSON n/a
Scale of location map n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 2692.7 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Level or other surveyed method. L
Altitude accuracy .1 feet n/a
Altitude datum
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 NGVD29
Subbasin hydrologic unit
17010212
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 n/a
Drainage area
7079 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 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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