Playlist of all USGS North Dakota YouTube videos. The most recent video plays first, followed by other videos. Hover over top of video to see title. Hover over bottom to preview other videos. Click on another video to skip to it. Click on any playing video to go to YouTube for further description of the video.
National Surface-Water Data
The USGS has a distributed water database that is locally managed. Surface-water, ground-water, and water-quality data are rolled up from these local, distributed databases into a national information system. The database contains records from about 50,000 surface-water sites and 850,000 wells that have been compiled during the course of hydrologic studies over the past 100 years, including over 4.4 million water-quality analyses. Data are served via the Internet through NWISWeb, the National Water Information System Web Interface. NWISWeb provides all USGS water data that are approved for public release. This large number of sites is excellent for some uses, but complicates retrivals when the user is interested in specific networks or applications. Several specialized products are available to supplement data provided through NWISWeb and to facilitate data discovery.
NWISWeb for the Nation
WaterWatch Current Conditions
IDA is a repository of time-series streamflow data at an interval of 5 to 60 minutes. Sites available on this web site will typically have data starting in the late 1980s.
StreamStats is a Web-based tool that allows users to obtain streamflow statistics, drainage-basin characteristics, and other information for user-selected sites on streams.