Michael E. Wieczorek Andrew E. LaMotte 2010 Attributes for NHDPlus Catchments (Version 1.1) for the Conterminous United States: Hydrologic Landscape Regions tabular digital data Digital Data Series DS-490-10 Reston, Virginia U.S. Geological Survey http://water.usgs.gov/lookup/getspatial?nhd_hlr This data set represents the area of Hydrologic Landscape Regions (HLR) compiled for every catchment of NHDPlus for the conterminous United States. The source data set is a 100-meter version of Hydrologic Landscape Regions of the United States (Wolock, 2003). HLR groups watersheds on the basis of similarities in land-surface form, geologic texture, and climate characteristics. The NHDPlus Version 1.1 is an integrated suite of application-ready geospatial datasets that incorporates many of the best features of the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) and the National Elevation Dataset (NED). The NHDPlus includes a stream network (based on the 1:100,00-scale NHD), improved networking, naming, and value-added attributes (VAAs). NHDPlus also includes elevation-derived catchments (drainage areas) produced using a drainage enforcement technique first widely used in New England, and thus referred to as "the New England Method." This technique involves "burning in" the 1:100,000-scale NHD and when available building "walls" using the National Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD). The resulting modified digital elevation model (HydroDEM) is used to produce hydrologic derivatives that agree with the NHD and WBD. Over the past two years, an interdisciplinary team from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), and contractors, found that this method produces the best quality NHD catchments using an automated process (USEPA, 2007). The NHDPlus dataset is organized by 18 Production Units that cover the conterminous United States. The NHDPlus version 1.1 data are grouped by the U.S. Geologic Survey's Major River Basins (MRBs, Crawford and others, 2006). MRB1, covering the New England and Mid-Atlantic River basins, contains NHDPlus Production Units 1 and 2. MRB2, covering the South Atlantic-Gulf and Tennessee River basins, contains NHDPlus Production Units 3 and 6. MRB3, covering the Great Lakes, Ohio, Upper Mississippi, and Souris-Red-Rainy River basins, contains NHDPlus Production Units 4, 5, 7 and 9. MRB4, covering the Missouri River basins, contains NHDPlus Production Units 10-lower and 10-upper. MRB5, covering the Lower Mississippi, Arkansas-White-Red, and Texas-Gulf River basins, contains NHDPlus Production Units 8, 11 and 12. MRB6, covering the Rio Grande, Colorado and Great Basin River basins, contains NHDPlus Production Units 13, 14, 15 and 16. MRB7, covering the Pacific Northwest River basins, contains NHDPlus Production Unit 17. MRB8, covering California River basins, contains NHDPlus Production Unit 18. This spatial data set was created and used by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) specifically to estimate areas of each HLR per watershed segment in the application of the national SPAtially Referenced Regression On Watershed attributes (SPARROW) model. The SPARROW model relates in-stream water-quality measurements to spatially referenced characteristics of watersheds, including contaminant sources and factors influencing terrestrial and stream transport. The model empirically estimates the origin and fate of contaminants in streams, and quantifies uncertainties in these estimates based on model coefficient error and unexplained variability in the observed data. For more information on the USGS SPARROW model please refer to: http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/sparrow/intro/intro.html. 2002 publication date Complete None planned -127.910792 -65.327751 51.657387 23.243486 None Hydrologic landscape regions Inlandwaters NHDPlus Catchment NAWQA SPARROW None Conterminous United States MRB Major River Basin MRB1 NEMA New England and Mid-Atlantic MRB2 SAGT South Atlantic-Gulf and Tennessee MRB3 GLMR Great Lakes, Ohio, Upper Mississippi, and Souris-Red-Rainy MRB4 MORI Missouri MRB5 LMTG Lower Mississippi, Arkansas-White-Red, and Texas-Gulf MRB6 COGB Rio Grande, Colorado, and Great Basin MRB7 PANW Pacific Northwest MRB8 CALI California None None Michael E. Wieczorek US Geological Survey, Maryland Water Science Center Geographer mailing address
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Baltimore MD 21228 USA 443-498-5550 mewieczo@usgs.gov 8:00am-4:30pm MST Please contact thru email http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/browse/nhd_hlr.jpg Illustration of the dataset jpg Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 3; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.3000 Charles G. Crawford Pixie A. Hamilton Anne B. Hoos October 5, 2006 National Water-Quality Assessment Program--Modifications to the Status and Trends Network and Assessments of Streams and Rivers Reston, Virginia U.S. Geological Survey Prepared by Charlie Crawford, Pixie Hamilton, and Anne Hoos for a NAWQA National Liaison Meeting, Washington D.C., October 5, 2006 http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/studies/mrb/mrb_factsheet.pdf None None U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. Geological Survey 2007 NHDPlus Catchments ( Version 1.1) for New England (Hydrologic Region 01) vector digital data Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ftp://ftp.horizon-systems.com/NHDPlus/NHDPlusV1/NewEngland/NHDPlus01V01_01_Catshape.zip online 2007 publication date NHD The source data provided catchments for basin characterization for MRB 1. COMID is the unique item in NHDPlus that relates to the dbf files containing artificial drainage information. U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. Geological Survey 2007 NHDPlus Catchments ( Version 1.1) for the Mid-Atlantic (Hydrologic Region 02) vector digital data Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ftp://ftp.horizon-systems.com/NHDPlus/NHDPlusV1/MidAtlantic/NHDPlus02V01_01_Catshape.zip online 2007 publication date NHD The source data provided catchments for basin characterization for MRB 1. COMID is the unique item in NHDPlus that relates to the dbf files containing artificial drainage information. U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. Geological Survey 2007 NHDPlus Catchments ( Version 1.1) for the South-Atlantic Gulf (Hydrologic Region 03) vector digital data Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ftp://ftp.horizon-systems.com/NHDPlus/NHDPlusV1/SouthAtlanticGulf/NHDPlus03V01_02_Catshape.zip online 2007 publication date NHD The source data provided catchments for basin characterization for MRB 2. COMID is the unique item in NHDPlus that relates to the dbf files containing artificial drainage information. U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. Geological Survey 2007 NHDPlus Catchments ( Version 1.1) for the Great Lakes (Hydrologic Region 04) vector digital data Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ftp://ftp.horizon-systems.com/NHDPlus/NHDPlusV1/GreatLakes/NHDPlus04V01_01_Catshape.zip online 2007 publication date NHD The source data provided catchments for basin characterization for MRB 3. COMID is the unique item in NHDPlus that relates to the dbf files containing artificial drainage information. U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. Geological Survey 2007 NHDPlus Catchments ( Version 1.1) for the Mississippi (Hydrologic Regions 05) vector digital data Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ftp://ftp.horizon-systems.com/NHDPlus/NHDPlusV1/Mississippi/NHDPlus05V01_01_Catshape.zip online 2007 publication date NHD The source data provided catchments for basin characterization for MRB 3. COMID is the unique item in NHDPlus that relates to the dbf files containing artificial drainage information. U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. Geological Survey 2007 NHDPlus Catchments ( Version 1.1) for the Mississippi (Hydrologic Region 06) vector digital data Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ftp://ftp.horizon-systems.com/NHDPlus/NHDPlusV1/Mississippi/NHDPlus06V01_01_Catshape.zip online 2007 publication date NHD The source data provided catchments for basin characterization for MRB 2. COMID is the unique item in NHDPlus that relates to the dbf files containing artificial drainage information. U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. Geological Survey 2007 NHDPlus Catchments ( Version 1.1) for the Mississippi (Hydrologic Region 07) vector digital data Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ftp://ftp.horizon-systems.com/NHDPlus/NHDPlusV1/Mississippi/NHDPlus07V01_01_Catshape.zip online 2007 publication date NHD The source data provided catchments for basin characterization for MRB 3. COMID is the unique item in NHDPlus that relates to the dbf files containing artificial drainage information. U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. Geological Survey 2007 NHDPlus Catchments ( Version 1.1) for the Mississippi (Hydrologic Region 08) vector digital data Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ftp://ftp.horizon-systems.com/NHDPlus/NHDPlusV1/Mississippi/NHDPlus08V01_01_Catshape.zip online 2007 publication date NHD The source data provided catchments for basin characterization for MRB 5. COMID is the unique item in NHDPlus that relates to the dbf files containing artificial drainage information. U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. Geological Survey 2007 NHDPlus Catchments ( Version 1.1) for the Souris-Red-Rainy (Hydrologic Region 09) vector digital data Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ftp://ftp.horizon-systems.com/NHDPlus/NHDPlusV1/SourisRedRainy/NHDPlus09V01_01_Catshape.zip online 2007 publication date NHD The source data provided catchments for basin characterization for MRB 3. COMID is the unique item in NHDPlus that relates to the dbf files containing artificial drainage information. U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. Geological Survey 2007 NHDPlus Catchments ( Version 1.1) for the Mississippi (Hydrologic Region 10, Lower Missouri River) vector digital data Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ftp://ftp.horizon-systems.com/NHDPlus/NHDPlusV1/Mississippi/NHDPlus10LV01_02_Catshape.zip online 2007 publication date NHD The source data provided catchments for basin characterization for MRB 4. COMID is the unique item in NHDPlus that relates to the dbf files containing artificial drainage information. U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. Geological Survey 2007 NHDPlus Catchments ( Version 1.1) for the Mississippi (Hydrologic Region 10, Upper Missouri River) vector digital data Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ftp://ftp.horizon-systems.com/NHDPlus/NHDPlusV1/Mississippi/NHDPlus10UV01_01_Catshape.zip online 2007 publication date NHD The source data provided catchments for basin characterization for MRB 4. COMID is the unique item in NHDPlus that relates to the dbf files containing artificial drainage information. U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. Geological Survey 2007 NHDPlus Catchments ( Version 1.1) for the Mississippi (Hydrologic Region 11) vector digital data Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ftp://ftp.horizon-systems.com/NHDPlus/NHDPlusV1/Mississippi/NHDPlus11V01_01_Catshape.zip online 2007 publication date NHD The source data provided catchments for basin characterization for MRB 5. COMID is the unique item in NHDPlus that relates to the dbf files containing artificial drainage information. U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. Geological Survey 2007 NHDPlus Catchments ( Version 1.1) for the Texas Gulf (Hydrologic Region 12) vector digital data Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ftp://ftp.horizon-systems.com/NHDPlus/NHDPlusV1/TexasGulf/NHDPlus12V01_02_Catshape.zip online 2007 publication date NHD The source data provided catchments for basin characterization for MRB 5. COMID is the unique item in NHDPlus that relates to the dbf files containing artificial drainage information. U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. Geological Survey 2007 NHDPlus Catchments ( Version 1.1) for the Rio Grande (Hydrologic Region 13) vector digital data Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ftp://ftp.horizon-systems.com/NHDPlus/NHDPlusV1/RioGrande/NHDPlus13V01_02_Catshape.zip online 2007 publication date NHD The source data provided catchments for basin characterization for MRB 6. COMID is the unique item in NHDPlus that relates to the dbf files containing artificial drainage information. U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. Geological Survey 2007 NHDPlus Catchments ( Version 1.1) for the Colorado (Hydrologic Region 14) vector digital data Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ftp://ftp.horizon-systems.com/NHDPlus/NHDPlusV1/Colorado/NHDPlus14V01_01_Catshape.zip online 2007 publication date NHD The source data provided catchments for basin characterization for MRB 6. COMID is the unique item in NHDPlus that relates to the dbf files containing artificial drainage information. U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. Geological Survey 2007 NHDPlus Catchments ( Version 1.1) for the Colorado (Hydrologic Region 15) vector digital data Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ftp://ftp.horizon-systems.com/NHDPlus/NHDPlusV1/Colorado/NHDPlus15V01_01_Catshape.zip online 2007 publication date NHD The source data provided catchments for basin characterization for MRB 6. COMID is the unique item in NHDPlus that relates to the dbf files containing artificial drainage information. U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. Geological Survey 2007 NHDPlus Catchments ( Version 1.1) for the Great Basin (Hydrologic Region 16) vector digital data Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ftp://ftp.horizon-systems.com/NHDPlus/NHDPlusV1/GreatBasin/NHDPlus16V01_01_Catshape.zip online 2007 publication date NHD The source data provided catchments for basin characterization for MRB 6. COMID is the unique item in NHDPlus that relates to the dbf files containing artificial drainage information. U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. Geological Survey 2007 NHDPlus Catchments ( Version 1.1) for the Pacific Northwest (Hydrologic Region 17) vector digital data Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ftp://ftp.horizon-systems.com/NHDPlus/NHDPlusV1/PacificNorthwest/NHDPlus17V01_02_Catshape.zip online 2007 publication date NHD The source data provided catchments for basin characterization for MRB 7. COMID is the unique item in NHDPlus that relates to the dbf files containing artificial drainage information. U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. Geological Survey 2007 NHDPlus Catchments ( Version 1.1) for California (Hydrologic Region 18) vector digital data Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ftp://ftp.horizon-systems.com/NHDPlus/NHDPlusV1/California/NHDPlus18V01_01_Catshape.zip online 2007 publication date NHD The source data provided catchments for basin characterization for MRB 8. COMID is the unique item in NHDPlus that relates to the dbf files containing artificial drainage information. Wolock, David M. 2003 Hydrologic Landscape Regions of the United States raster digital data Open-File Report 03-145 Reston, VA U.S. Geological Survey http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/metadata/usgswrd/XML/hlrus.xml online 2003 publication date hlr The source data provided information on hydrologic landscapes. 1) Downloaded the raster coverage of HLRs from http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/metadata/usgswrd/XML/hlrus.xml. 2) Summarized the area of each HLR per catchment by using the COMBINE command in GRID. The COMBINE command combines the HLRs and catchment GRIDs into one coverage. The resulting GRID automatically tables the area of each HLR per catchment. 3) Exported results into a dbf file format. 2008 Metadata imported. G:\MRBs\meta\NHDPlus\xml\hlr_nhd.xml 20100921 15415100 COMID code hlr dbf tabular data ESRI OID Internal feature number. ESRI Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. COMID Unique ID to relate to the NHDPlus catchments NHDPlus Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. HLR_1 Estimated area of catchment that is classified by HLR type: 1, Subhumid plains with permeable soils and bedrock in square meters. U.S. Geological Survey 0 9893997500.0 Square meters HLR_2 Estimated area of catchment that is classified by HLR type: 2, Humid plains with permeable soils and bedrock in square meters. U.S. Geological Survey 0 9893997500.0 Square meters HLR_3 Estimated area of catchment that is classified by HLR type: 3, Subhumid plains with impermeable soils and permeable bedrock in square meters. U.S. Geological Survey 0 9893997500.0 Square meters HLR_4 Estimated area of catchment that is classified by HLR type: 4, Humid plains with permeable soils and bedrock in square meters. U.S. Geological Survey 0 9893997500.0 Square meters HLR_5 Estimated area of catchment that is classified by HLR type: 5, Arid plains with permeable soils and bedrock in square meters. U.S. Geological Survey 0 9893997500.0 Square meters HLR_6 Estimated area of catchment that is classified by HLR type: 6, Subhumid plains with impermeable soils and bedrock in square meters. U.S. Geological Survey 0 9893997500.0 Square meters HLR_7 Estimated area of catchment that is classified by HLR type: 7, Humid plains with permeable soils and impermeable bedrock in square meters. U.S. Geological Survey 0 9893997500.0 Square meters HLR_8 Estimated area of catchment that is classified by HLR type: 8, Semiarid plains with impermeable soils and bedrock in square meters. U.S. Geological Survey 0 9893997500.0 Square meters HLR_9 Estimated area of catchment that is classified by HLR type: 9, Humid plateaus with impermeable soils and permeable bedrock in square meters. U.S. Geological Survey 0 9893997500.0 Square meters HLR_10 Estimated area of catchment that is classified by HLR type: 10, Arid plateaus with impermeable soils and permeable bedrock in square meters. U.S. Geological Survey 0 9893997500.0 Square meters HLR_11 Estimated area of catchment that is classified by HLR type: 11, Humid plateaus with impermeable soils and bedrock in square meters. U.S. Geological Survey 0 9893997500.0 Square meters HLR_12 Estimated area of catchment that is classified by HLR type: 12, Semiarid plateaus with permeable soils and impermeable bedrock in square meters. U.S. Geological Survey 0 9893997500.0 Square meters HLR_13 Estimated area of catchment that is classified by HLR type: 13, Semiarid plateaus with impermeable soils and bedrock in square meters. U.S. Geological Survey 0 9893997500.0 Square meters HLR_14 Estimated area of catchment that is classified by HLR type: 14, Arid playas with permeable soils and bedrock in square meters. U.S. Geological Survey 0 9893997500.0 Square meters HLR_15 Estimated area of catchment that is classified by HLR type: 15, Semiarid mountains with impermeable soils and permeable bedrock in square meters. U.S. Geological Survey 0 9893997500.0 Square meters HLR_16 Estimated area of catchment that is classified by HLR type: 16, Humid mountains with permeable soils and impermeable bedrock in square meters. U.S. Geological Survey 0 9893997500.0 Square meters HLR_17 Estimated area of catchment that is classified by HLR type: 17, Semiarid mountains with impermeable soils and bedrock in square meters. U.S. Geological Survey 0 9893997500.0 Square meters HLR_18 Estimated area of catchment that is classified by HLR type: 18, Semiarid mountains with permeable soils and impermeable bedrock in square meters. U.S. Geological Survey 0 9893997500.0 Square meters HLR_19 Estimated area of catchment that is classified by HLR type: 19, Very humid mountains with permeable soils and impermeable bedrock in square meters. U.S. Geological Survey 0 9893997500.0 Square meters HLR_20 Estimated area of catchment that is classified by HLR type: 20, Humid mountains with permeable soils and impermeable bedrock in square meters. U.S. Geological Survey 0 9893997500.0 Square meters BASIN_AREA Area of catchment U.S. Geological Survey 900.0 9893997500.0 Square meters NODATA_ARE Area of catchment that source GRID does not cover U.S. Geological Survey 0.0 67843560000.0 Square meters COV_PERC Percent of catchment that source GRID covers U.S. Geological Survey 0.0 100.0 Percentage HLR_AREA Area of catchment that source GRID covers U.S. Geological Survey 0 9893997500.0 Square meters U.S. Geological Survey Ask USGS -- Water Webserver Team mailing address
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