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Ephemeral Stream #3 in Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial (11NPSWRD_WQX-LIBO_L1_ES3) site data in the Water Quality Portal

Data Provider: STORET (Learn more about Water Quality Portal Data Providers)

This river/stream site, maintained by the National Park Service Water Resources Division (identifier 11NPSWRD_WQX), has the name "Ephemeral Stream #3 in Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial" and has the identifier 11NPSWRD_WQX-LIBO_L1_ES3. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)05140201.

This site is located in Spencer County County, Indiana at 38.1182444000 degrees latitude and -86.9966389000 degrees longitude using the datum NAD83. No horizontal location accuracy metadata is available. This site is at an elevation of 438.26 ft No vertical location accuracy metadata is available.

To download the metadata about this site along with water quality data, go to the Portal Page and enter "11NPSWRD_WQX-LIBO_L1_ES3" into the "Site ID" box under Site Parameters

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Upstream and downstream locations

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Periods of record for data characteristic groups

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Characteristic Group Date Range*
Physical 2001 - 2002
*Date ranges may contain gap years

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Detailed Metadata

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Location Metadata Value
OrganizationIdentifier 11NPSWRD_WQX
OrganizationFormalName National Park Service Water Resources Division
MonitoringLocationIdentifier 11NPSWRD_WQX-LIBO_L1_ES3
MonitoringLocationName Ephemeral Stream #3 in Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial
MonitoringLocationTypeName River/Stream
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText Three ephemeral streams were identified in the park. Each of the ephemeral streams is considered a firstorder stream, according to the classification system described by Chow and others (1988). Firstorder streams are the smallest recognizable channels in a watershed and flow only during periods of wet weather. Ephemeral stream 1 is in a swale that begins north of Lewis Street and extends westnorthwest out of the park; the swale then passes through a culvert and under the railroad tracks. Ephemeral stream 2 is in another swale that begins north of Lewis Street and extends northnorthwest out of the park. Both streams receive flow from forested areas in the park. Ephemeral stream 3, this station, extends from the forested area north of the Nancy Hanks Lincoln Memorial site northward to a parking lot on the east side of County Road 300 East. The stream then flows under the parking lot through a culvert and emerges on the north side of the parking lot. This sample site was selected to represent the water quality of drainage from forested and memorial areas of the park.
HUCEightDigitCode 05140201
LatitudeMeasure 38.1182444000
LongitudeMeasure -86.9966389000
SourceMapScaleNumeric 0
HorizontalCollectionMethodName GPS Code (Pseudo Range) Differential
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD83
VerticalMeasure/MeasureValue 438.26
VerticalMeasure/MeasureUnitCode ft
VerticalCollectionMethodName Other
VerticalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NGVD29
CountryCode US
StateCode 18
CountyCode 147
ProviderName STORET