USGS water monitoring site number (NWIS)
ID usgs_site_number
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Number of a monitoring location (a stream gage, well, spring, lake or other site) in the National Water Information System of the US Geological Survey. Stream stations get a number in downstream order, usually 8 digits (a two-digit part number and a six-digit order number) and longer in dense networks; wells, springs and other sites get 15 digits, the latitude (ddmmss) and longitude (dddmmss) first assigned to the site and a two-digit sequence number. The number is unique only together with the agency code (USGS for most sites) and loses its leading zero in spreadsheets.
- Parent datatype
- Water monitoring station identifier
waterstation - Categories
- Environment (protected areas, biodiversity, water, weather, emissions, waste), Geographic identifiers
- Countries
- United States
- Languages
- Common to most languages
- Wikidata
- P13020
- Quality
- 90/100 · missing: detector coverage
- Metacrafter rules
- no detection rule yet
- Supported by tools
- no tool record lists this type yet
Regular expression
^[0-9]{8,15}$Python re syntax.
Examples
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| 01646500 | Potomac River near Washington, DC, Little Falls pump station; USGS NWIS |
| 09380000 | Colorado River at Lees Ferry, Arizona; USGS NWIS |
| 01467200 | Delaware River at Penn's Landing, Philadelphia; Wikidata example |
| 321804090244200 | USGS NADP raingage (MS10) near Clinton, Mississippi; Wikidata example |
| 1646500 invalid | Site 01646500 with the leading zero lost |
Translations
| Language | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Russian | Номер пункта наблюдений USGS (NWIS) | Номер пункта гидрологических наблюдений (гидропоста, скважины, родника) в Национальной системе водной информации Геологической службы США. От 8 до 15 цифр; 15-значные номера строятся из координат. |
Sources
- wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13020
- doc: https://pubs.usgs.gov/wdr/2005/wdr-ak-05-1/PDFonly/htdocs2005/explanrecord.html
- doc: https://waterservices.usgs.gov/docs/site-service/
Use this record
- Page URL:
https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/usgs_site_number - JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
- Improve it: edit
data/datatypes/US/environment/usgs_site_number.yamlon GitHub