USGS West Virginia Streamgages May 2023

The US Geological Survey has over 10,000 streamgages (metal devices that measure rivers and waterways) around the United States. There are 196 of them in West Virginia as of May 17, 2023.

A new version of this dataset is HERE and is updated weekly.

This dataset has the following for all of the streamgages in West Virginia:

• the agency monitoring them (usually USGS)
• monitoring location ID number
• name of monitoring location
• latitude
• longitude
• lat/long type
• county
• hydrologic unit
• drainage area (square miles)
• datum of gage (AKA elevation)

USGS periodically adds streamgages throughout the United States. This dataset has all West Virginia streamgages as of May 17, 2023.

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