U.S. Geological Survey · Example Payload

Usgs Water Data Api Time Series Properties Example

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Usgs Water Data Api Time Series Properties Example is an example object payload from U.S. Geological Survey, with 7 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

monitoringLocationIdentifierobservedPropertyIdobservedPropertyNamephenomenonTimeresultresultUnitCoderesultQualityCode

Example Payload

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{
  "monitoringLocationIdentifier": "USGS-11169025",
  "observedPropertyId": "00060",
  "observedPropertyName": "Streamflow, ft\u00b3/s",
  "phenomenonTime": "2025-03-15T14:00:00Z",
  "result": 450.0,
  "resultUnitCode": "ft3/s",
  "resultQualityCode": "P"
}