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WQP Home >  Providers >  STORET >  USIOUX_WQX >  USIOUX_WQX-YMR: Hwy 274 Bridge

Yellow Medicine River: Highway 274 Bridge (USIOUX_WQX-YMR: Hwy 274 Bridge) 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 Upper Sioux Community (Tribal) (identifier USIOUX_WQX), has the name "Yellow Medicine River: Highway 274 Bridge" and has the identifier USIOUX_WQX-YMR: Hwy 274 Bridge. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)07020004.

This site is located in Yellow Medicine County County, Minnesota at 44.7152000000 degrees latitude and -95.5440200000 degrees longitude using the datum WGS84. No horizontal location accuracy metadata is available. This site is at an elevation of 991 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 "USIOUX_WQX-YMR: Hwy 274 Bridge" 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 2018 - 2019
Inorganics, Major, Metals 2018 - 2019
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals 2018 - 2019
Inorganics, Minor, Metals 2018 - 2019
Microbiological 2018 - 2019
Nutrient 2018 - 2019
Organics, Other 2018 - 2019
Organics, Pesticide 2018 - 2019
Physical 2018 - 2019
Physical, Habitat 2018 - 2019
Sediment 2018 - 2019
*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 USIOUX_WQX
OrganizationFormalName Upper Sioux Community (Tribal)
MonitoringLocationIdentifier USIOUX_WQX-YMR: Hwy 274 Bridge
MonitoringLocationName Yellow Medicine River: Highway 274 Bridge
MonitoringLocationTypeName River/Stream
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText Highway 274 East side of Bridge on the Yellow Medicine River
HUCEightDigitCode 07020004
LatitudeMeasure 44.7152000000
LongitudeMeasure -95.5440200000
HorizontalCollectionMethodName GPS-Unspecified
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName WGS84
VerticalMeasure/MeasureValue 991
VerticalMeasure/MeasureUnitCode ft
VerticalCollectionMethodName Unknown
VerticalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName UNKWN
CountryCode US
StateCode 27
CountyCode 173
ProviderName STORET