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Five Mile Creek upstream of Swift CR 54, 5 mi. NW of Appleton (MNPCA-S013-142) site data in the Water Quality Portal

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This river/stream site, maintained by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency - Ambient Surface Water (identifier MNPCA), has the name "Five Mile Creek upstream of Swift CR 54, 5 mi. NW of Appleton" and has the identifier MNPCA-S013-142. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)07020001.

This site is located in Big Stone County County, Minnesota at 45.2404610000 degrees latitude and -96.1197260000 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 "MNPCA-S013-142" 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.

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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*
Nutrient 2017 - 2018
Physical 2017 - 2018
*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 MNPCA
OrganizationFormalName Minnesota Pollution Control Agency - Ambient Surface Water
MonitoringLocationIdentifier MNPCA-S013-142
MonitoringLocationName Five Mile Creek upstream of Swift CR 54, 5 mi. NW of Appleton
MonitoringLocationTypeName River/Stream
HUCEightDigitCode 07020001
LatitudeMeasure 45.2404610000
LongitudeMeasure -96.1197260000
SourceMapScaleNumeric 0
HorizontalCollectionMethodName GPS-Unspecified
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName WGS84
CountryCode US
StateCode 27
CountyCode 011
ProviderName STORET