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WESTERN BRANCH AT UPPER MARLBORO, MD (USGS-01594526) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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This stream site, maintained by the USGS Maryland Water Science Center (identifier USGS-MD), has the name "WESTERN BRANCH AT UPPER MARLBORO, MD" and has the identifier USGS-01594526. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)02060006. See more details of this site the the USGS NWIS Web page for this site. This site has a drainage area of 89.7 sq mi.

This site is located in Prince George's County County, Maryland at 38.81422220000000 degrees latitude and -76.7487222000000 degrees longitude using the datum NAD83. The horizontal location collection method was "Interpolated from MAP." and the accuracy is 1 seconds. The source map scale is 1:24000. This site is at an elevation of 4.42 feet and the accuracy of the elevation measurement, collected using the method "Interpolated from Digital Elevation Model" is .1 feet. The vertical coordinate reference system is NAVD88.

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