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Highland Bayou at Hitchcock, TX (USGS-08077700) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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This estuary site, maintained by the USGS Texas Water Science Center (identifier USGS-TX), has the name "Highland Bayou at Hitchcock, TX" and has the identifier USGS-08077700. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)12040204. See more details of this site the the USGS NWIS Web page for this site. This site has a drainage area of 12.0 sq mi and the contributing drainage area is 12.0 sq mi.

This site is located in Galveston County County, Texas at 29.35361110000000 degrees latitude and -95.0302806000000 degrees longitude using the datum NAD83. The horizontal location collection method was "Interpolated from Digital MAP." and the accuracy is 1 seconds. The source map scale is 1:24000. This site is at an elevation of 8 feet and the accuracy of the elevation measurement, collected using the method "Interpolated from Digital Elevation Model" is 2 feet. The vertical coordinate reference system is NAVD88.

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