Some Background Data Sets for Water Resources

Here are some background data sets commonly used in water-resources studies. They represent only a small subset of USGS data holdings for basemaps. For more information on USGS maps see the
USGS mapping pages.

National Coverages

Benchmark Stations
City Locations
Climate Divisions
Counties in the conterminous U.S.: 1:2,000,000 or 1:100,000
Districts for 104th Congress
Ecoregions
Hydrologic Cataloging Units: 1:2,000,000 or 1:250,000
Land Use
Major Land Resource Areas (MLRA)
Physiographic provences
Reservoirs
States, 1:2,000,000
Streams, 1:2,000,000
U.S. Population points: 1980 or 1990
Soils

National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program Coverages

NAWQA Study Area Locations

Selected Regional and Local Data Sets

Watershed Boundaries and Digital Elevation Model of Oklahoma Derived from 1:100,000-scale Digital Topographic Maps (This information no longer available from this site)

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