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Fairfield Creek Mouth (11NPSWRD_WQX-NIOB_NPS_FAIRCR) 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 "Fairfield Creek Mouth" and has the identifier 11NPSWRD_WQX-NIOB_NPS_FAIRCR. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)10150004.

This site is located in Brown County County, Nebraska at 42.7861816300 degrees latitude and -100.0630119800 degrees longitude using the datum WGS84. No horizontal 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-NIOB_NPS_FAIRCR" into the "Site ID" box under Site Parameters

What other monitoring locations are upstream or downstream from this one?

Upstream and downstream locations

This map shows all Water Quality Portal stations that are 10 miles upstream (dashed dark blue) and 10 miles downstream (solid light blue) of this monitoring location (indicated by the large blue circle). The upstream and downstream functionality is provided by the Network Linked Data Index.

When were data collected at this location?

Periods of record for data characteristic groups

For a more detailed breakdown of data, go to the Monitoring Report at the EPA How's My Waterway Application
Characteristic Group Date Range*
Information 2003 - 2008
Microbiological 2006 - 2009
Nutrient 2006 - 2009
Physical 2002 - 2009
*Date ranges may contain gap years

What other information is available for this location?

Detailed Metadata

For the definitions of the metadata elements, please go to the Water Quality Portal user guide

Location Metadata Value
OrganizationIdentifier 11NPSWRD_WQX
OrganizationFormalName National Park Service Water Resources Division
MonitoringLocationIdentifier 11NPSWRD_WQX-NIOB_NPS_FAIRCR
MonitoringLocationName Fairfield Creek Mouth
MonitoringLocationTypeName River/Stream
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText This station is Fairfield Creek at its mouth, approximately 2.2 km upstream of the Norden Road Bridge on the Niobrara River.
HUCEightDigitCode 10150004
LatitudeMeasure 42.7861816300
LongitudeMeasure -100.0630119800
SourceMapScaleNumeric 24000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName Interpolation-Digital Map Source (Tiger)
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName WGS84
CountryCode US
StateCode 31
CountyCode 017
ProviderName STORET