Data field · Geographic area

Monitoring location altitude

The altitude of a monitoring location on the source’s stated vertical datum.

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Sources that carry it

1 source

U.S. Geological Survey

USGS Water Data APIs

Open OGC API product family for USGS continuous sensor measurements, daily values, time-series metadata, and monitoring-location metadata. Continuous and daily observations carry site and series identifiers, parameter/statistic codes, observation time, a precision-preserving string value, unit, approval status, qualifier, and last-modified time. Parameter code 00060 is discharge in cubic feet per second and 00065 is gage height in feet.

Free API National US 3 fields

Questions it helps answer

River stage and discharge during the event

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