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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Unit Values 2024-07-26 2024-11-23
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 402504074414201 is associated with an Atmosphere in Somerset County, New Jersey. Current conditions of Precipitation are available. Water data back to 2024 are available online.

The 15-minute precipitation data for this station are temporary and will only be displayed for 120 days. Although the instrumentation is calibrated at least once/year, the temporary classification means that documented routine inspections and other quality assurance measures are not performed that would make the data acceptable for archival, retrieval, or future use in general scientific or interpretive studies.
Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
402504074414201 n/a
Site name
Skillman USGS unheated rain gage NJ n/a
Site type
Atmosphere
AT
DMS latitude 402504 n/a
DMS longitude 0744142 n/a
Decimal latitude 40.4178833 n/a
Decimal longitude -74.6946042 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
New Jersey 34
State
New Jersey 34
County
Somerset County 035
Country US n/a
Land net location description Montgomery Township n/a
Name of location map Rocky Hill n/a
Scale of location map 24000 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
Raritan 02030105
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site NNNNYNNNNNNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 20070103 n/a
Drainage area
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

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