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Turkey Creek near Abilene (21KAN001_WQX-SC644) 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 Kansas Department Of Health And Environment (identifier 21KAN001_WQX), has the name "Turkey Creek near Abilene" and has the identifier 21KAN001_WQX-SC644. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)10260008.

This site is located in Dickinson County County, Kansas at 38.8568500000 degrees latitude and -97.1917300000 degrees longitude using the datum NAD83. 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 "21KAN001_WQX-SC644" 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 1991 - 2010
Inorganics, Major, Metals 1991 - 2014
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals 1991 - 2014
Inorganics, Minor, Metals 1991 - 2014
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals 1991 - 2014
Microbiological 1991 - 2014
Nutrient 1991 - 2014
Organics, Other 2003 - 2014
Organics, PCBs 1991 - 2014
Organics, Pesticide 1991 - 2014
Physical 1991 - 2014
Radiochemical 2010 - 2014
*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 21KAN001_WQX
OrganizationFormalName Kansas Department Of Health And Environment
MonitoringLocationIdentifier 21KAN001_WQX-SC644
MonitoringLocationName Turkey Creek near Abilene
MonitoringLocationTypeName River/Stream
HUCEightDigitCode 10260008
LatitudeMeasure 38.8568500000
LongitudeMeasure -97.1917300000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName Interpolation-Digital Map Source
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD83
CountryCode US
StateCode 20
CountyCode 041
ProviderName STORET