USGS NWIS Site Information for USA: Site Inventory USGS Home Contact USGS Search USGS National Water Information System: Web Interface Data Category: Geographic Area: USGS Water Resources Site Information United States News - updated September 2012 Site Inventory for the Nation Choose Site Selection Criteria Choose at least one of the following criteria to constrain the number of sites selected. Site Site Site Data -- Location -- -- Identifier -- -- Attribute -- -- Attribute -- State/Territory Site Name Site type Update time Hydrologic Region Site Number Altitude Lat-Long box Multiple Site Numbers Drainage area Agency Code Data type File of Site Numbers Well depth Hole depth National aquifer (by code) National aquifer (by name) Local aquifer (by code) Local aquifer (by name) Questions about sites/data? Data Tips Feedback on this web site Explanation of terms Automated retrievals Subscribe for system changes Help News Accessibility Plug-Ins FOIA Privacy Policies and Notices U.S. Department of the Interior | U.S. Geological Survey Title: NWIS Site Information for USA: Site Inventory URL: http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/inventory? Page Contact Information: USGS Water Data Support Team Page Last Modified: 2012-12-10 17:31:51 EST 0.3 0.31 caww01 http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/inventory[12/10/2012 2:52:58 PM] USGS NWIS Site Information for USA: Site Inventory USGS Home Contact USGS Search USGS National Water Information System: Web Interface Data Category: Geographic Area: USGS Water Resources Site Information United States News - updated September 2012 Site Inventory for the Nation Select sites which meet all of the following criteria: Define one or more values for each of the following site-selection criteria: --- or select new criteria State/Territory -- select one or more Alabama Alaska American Samoa Arizona Arkansas California SiteColorado type -- select one or more (selection of a left-justified option will retrieve any subsequent indented entries) Atmosphere Glacier Ocean Coastal Estuary Lake Stream Canal Ditch Tidal stream Spring Well Collector or Ranney type well Extensometer well Hyporheic-zone well Lat-Long Interconnected box -- Enterwells the North and South latitudes and the East and West longitudes to create a bounding box. NAD83 datum expected for DMS input. (Use a space to separate degrees minutes seconds) North Latitude West Longitude East Longitude South Latitude Coordinates are entered as Degrees Minutes Seconds (DMS) http://waterdata.usgs.gov/...=state_cd&search_criteria=lat_long_bounding_box&search_criteria=site_tp_cd&search_criteria=data_type&submitted_form=introduction[12/10/2012 2:55:35 PM] USGS NWIS Site Information for USA: Site Inventory Data type -- select one or more. Only sites with the selected data will be returned. Current Conditions and Recent Daily Data Surface Water: Peak streamflow Site Visit Water Quality Groundwater Choose Output Format Display Summary of Selected Sites Choose one of the following options for displaying descriptions of the sites meeting the criteria above: Show sites on a map Table of sites sorted by Site number grouped by Scroll list of sites -- allows selection of data for multiple sites Brief descriptions -- allows selection of data for multiple sites Site-description information displayed in table format Agency <--Select fields to include in Site identification number site-description output Site name Site type Save fileDMS of selectedlatitude sites to local disk for future upload Retrieve Site inventory data for Selected Sites Choose one of the following options for displaying data for the sites meeting the criteria above Detailed descriptions with links to available data for each site Questions about sites/data? Data Tips Feedback on this web site Explanation of terms Automated retrievals Subscribe for system changes Help News Accessibility Plug-Ins FOIA Privacy Policies and Notices U.S. Department of the Interior | U.S. Geological Survey Title: NWIS Site Information for USA: Site Inventory URL: http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/inventory? Page Contact Information: USGS Water Data Support Team Page Last Modified: 2012-12-10 17:53:09 EST 0.3 0.29 caww01 http://waterdata.usgs.gov/...=state_cd&search_criteria=lat_long_bounding_box&search_criteria=site_tp_cd&search_criteria=data_type&submitted_form=introduction[12/10/2012 2:55:35 PM] USGS Site-description information for selected sites USGS Home Contact USGS Search USGS National Water Information System: Web Interface Data Category: Geographic Area: USGS Water Resources Site Information United States News - updated September 2012 Site Inventory for the Nation Site Description Information -- 18 sites match criteria Site type = Stream State/Territory = Pennsylvania lat_long_bounding_box = Position Latitude Longitude Corner 1 42°00'00" 76°50'30" Corner 2 40°49'30" 75°45'30" Coordinates are entered as Degrees-Minutes-Seconds (DMS). DMS values are converted to Decimal degrees using NAD83 as the datum. Make your bounding box bigger if you are using NAD27 Datum for your DMS values Data type = Current Conditions and Recent Daily Data Site Agency Site Name Number USGS 01515000 SUSQUEHANNA RIVER NEAR WAVERLY NY NB Sugar Creek Trib near Columbia Cross USGS 01531250 Roads, PA USGS 01531325 Sugar Creek at West Burlington, PA USGS 01531500 Susquehanna River at Towanda, PA USGS 01531908 Towanda Creek near Franklindale, PA USGS 01532000 Towanda Creek near Monroeton, PA USGS 01533400 Susquehanna River at Meshoppen, PA USGS 01534000 Tunkhannock Creek near Tunkhannock, PA USGS 01536500 Susquehanna River at Wilkes-Barre, PA USGS 01538000 Wapwallopen Creek near Wapwallopen, PA USGS 01538700 Susquehanna River at Bloomsburg, PA http://waterdata.usgs.gov/...n_name=station_nm&list_of_search_criteria=state_cd%2Clat_long_bounding_box%2Csite_tp_cd%2Cdata_type[12/10/2012 2:58:24 PM] USGS Site-description information for selected sites USGS 01539000 Fishing Creek near Bloomsburg, PA USGS 01540500 Susquehanna River at Danville, PA USGS 01552500 Muncy Creek near Sonestown, PA USGS 01553005 Muncy Creek near Muncy, PA USGS 01553700 Chillisquaque Creek at Washingtonville, PA Susquehanna River above Dam at Sunbury, USGS 01553990 PA USGS 01554000 Susquehanna River at Sunbury, PA Questions about sites/data? Data Tips Feedback on this web site Explanation of terms Automated retrievals Subscribe for system changes Help News Accessibility Plug-Ins FOIA Privacy Policies and Notices U.S. Department of the Interior | U.S. Geological Survey Title: Site Inventory -- 18 sites found URL: http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/inventory? Page Contact Information: USGS Water Data Support Team Page Last Modified: 2012-12-10 17:57:58 EST 0.4 0.3 caww01 http://waterdata.usgs.gov/...n_name=station_nm&list_of_search_criteria=state_cd%2Clat_long_bounding_box%2Csite_tp_cd%2Cdata_type[12/10/2012 2:58:24 PM] USGS 01536500 Susquehanna River at Wilkes-Barre, PA USGS Home Contact USGS Search USGS National Water Information System: Web Interface Data Category: Geographic Area: USGS Water Resources Site Information United States News - updated September 2012 USGS 01536500 Susquehanna River at Wilkes-Barre, PA Available data for this site SUMMARY OF ALL AVAILABLE DATA Stream Site DESCRIPTION: Latitude 41°15'03", Longitude 75°52'52" NAD27 Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, Hydrologic Unit 02050107 Drainage area: 9,960 square miles Datum of gage: 510.86 feet above NAVD88. AVAILABLE DATA: Begin End Data Type Count Date Date Current / Historical Observations 2007- 2012- (availability statement) 10-01 11-16 Daily Data 1899- 2012- Discharge, cubic feet per second 41493 04-01 11-15 Daily Statistics 1899- 2010- Discharge, cubic feet per second 40725 04-01 09-30 Monthly Statistics 1899- 2010- Discharge, cubic feet per second 04 09 Annual Statistics Discharge, cubic feet per second 1899 2010 1807- 2011- Peak streamflow 125 04 09-09 1899- 2012- Field measurements 772 03-30 09-27 1963- 2007- http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/inventory/?site_no=01536500&agency_cd=USGS&[11/16/2012 2:49:41 PM] USGS 01536500 Susquehanna River at Wilkes-Barre, PA Field/Lab water-quality samples 10 10-17 03-19 Begin End Additional Data Sources Count Date Date Annual Water-Data Report (pdf) **offsite** 2006 2010 5 OPERATION: Record for this site is maintained by the USGS Pennsylvania Water Science Center Email questions about this site to Pennsylvania Water Science Center Water-Data Inquiries ADDITIONAL INFORMATION STATION.--01536500 SUSQUEHANNA RIVER AT WILKES-BARRE, PA LOCATION.--Lat 41`15'03", long 75`52'52", Luzerne County, Hydrologic Unit 02050107, on left bank at downstream side of North Street bridge in Wilkes-Barre, and 1.8 mi upstream from Toby Creek. DRAINAGE AREA.--9,960 mi2. PERIOD OF RECORD.--April 1899 to current year. Gage-height records collected at same site since November 1890, contained in reports of U.S. Weather Bureau. GAGE.--Water-stage recorder. Datum of gage is 510.86 ft above sea level (NAVD 1988). See WSP 1722 for history of changes prior to Mar. 23, 1949. May 23, 1949 to Sept. 30, 1996, at site 800 ft downstream. EXTREMES OUTSIDE PERIOD OF RECORD.--Maximum stage known prior to 1899, 33.1 ft, Mar. 18, 1865, from floodmarks, discharge, about 232,000 ft3/s. FLOOD STAGE.--NOAA, National Weather Service river forecast station flood stage provided to USGS April 1999 is 22 feet. COOPERATION.--Funding for the operation of this station is provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the U.S. Geological Survey. Questions about sites/data? Data Tips Feedback