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Bills Branch At MP 0 (WVDEP_WQX-16968) 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 West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection-Division of Water & Waste Management-Watershed Assessment Branch (identifier WVDEP_WQX), has the name "Bills Branch At MP 0" and has the identifier WVDEP_WQX-16968. This site is in the watershed defined by the 8 digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)05070102. This site has a drainage area of 263.9043 ac.

This site is located in Logan County County, West Virginia at 37.8966944400 degrees latitude and -81.9950277800 degrees longitude using the datum NAD83. The horizontal location collection method was "GPS-Unspecified" and the accuracy is 9 ft. This site is at an elevation of 642.9216 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 "WVDEP_WQX-16968" into the "Site ID" box under Site Parameters

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Upstream and downstream locations

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Leaflet USGS The National Map: National Boundaries Dataset, 3DEP Elevation Program, Geographic Names Information System, National Hydrography Dataset, National Land Cover Database, National Structures Dataset, and National Transportation Dataset; USGS Global Ecosystems; U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line data; USFS Road data; Natural Earth Data; U.S. Department of State HIU; NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Data refreshed February, 2025.

When were data collected at this location?

Periods of record for data characteristic groups

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Characteristic Group Date Range*
Information 2019 - 2019
Physical 2019 - 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 WVDEP_WQX
OrganizationFormalName West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection-Division of Water & Waste Management-Watershed Assessment Branch
MonitoringLocationIdentifier WVDEP_WQX-16968
MonitoringLocationName Bills Branch At MP 0
MonitoringLocationTypeName River/Stream
MonitoringLocationDescriptionText At mouth in Henlawson; On the Henlawson USGS 24k topo quadrangle
HUCEightDigitCode 05070102
DrainageAreaMeasure/MeasureValue 263.9043
DrainageAreaMeasure/MeasureUnitCode ac
LatitudeMeasure 37.8966944400
LongitudeMeasure -81.9950277800
HorizontalAccuracyMeasure/MeasureValue 9
HorizontalAccuracyMeasure/MeasureUnitCode ft
HorizontalCollectionMethodName GPS-Unspecified
HorizontalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName NAD83
VerticalMeasure/MeasureValue 642.9216
VerticalMeasure/MeasureUnitCode ft
VerticalCollectionMethodName Digital Elevation Model
VerticalCoordinateReferenceSystemDatumName OTHER
CountryCode US
StateCode 54
CountyCode 045
ProviderName STORET