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NHDPlusV1 Great Lakes Data

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great lakes

Great Lakes (Hydrologic Region 04)

The Great Lakes drainage area is composed of hydrologic regions 04.

The Great Lakes hydrologic regions are further divided into production units: 04 a, b, c, and d.

NHDPlus Shapefile and DBF components are distributed by hydrologic region.

NHDPlus ESRI Grid components are distributed by production units.

For more information please see Great Lakes Release Notes (DOC)(2 pp, 32 K) or Great Lakes Release Notes (PDF)(2 pp, 11 K, About PDF).

The following links exit the site

FILENAME KEY

NHDPlusrrVnn_componentname.zip
where:

  • rr is the hydrologic region number
  • nn is the currently available version of the data
  • componentname describes the content of the zip file
File Description File Name (.zip) Format
Region 04 , Version 01_01, Catchment Grid NHDPlus04V01_01_Catgrid ESRI Grid
Region 04, Version 01_01, Catchment Shapefile NHDPlus04V01_01_Catshape Shapefile
Region 04, Version 01_02, Catchment Flowline Attributes NHDPlus04V01_02_cat_flowline_attr DBF
Region 04, Version 01_01, Elevation Unit a NHDPlus04V01_01_Elev_Unit_a ESRI Grid
Region 04, Version 01_01, Elevation Unit b NHDPlus04V01_01_Elev_Unit_b ESRI Grid
Region 04, Version 01_01, Elevation Unit c NHDPlus04V01_01_Elev_Unit_c ESRI Grid
Region 04, Version 01_01, Elevation Unit d NHDPlus04V01_01_Elev_Unit_d ESRI Grid
Region 04, Version 01_01, Flow Accumulation and Flow Direction Unit a NHDPlus04V01_01_FAC_FDR_Unit_a ESRI Grid
Region 04, Version 01_01, Flow Accumulation and Flow Direction Unit b NHDPlus04V01_01_FAC_FDR_Unit_b ESRI Grid
Region 04, Version 01_01, Flow Accumulation and Flow Direction Unit c NHDPlus04V01_01_FAC_FDR_Unit_c ESRI Grid
Region 04, Version 01_01, Flow Accumulation and Flow Direction Unit d NHDPlus04V01_01_FAC_FDR_Unit_d ESRI Grid
Region 04, Version 01_01, National Hydrography Dataset NHDPlus04V01_02_NHD Shapefile and DBF
Region 04, Version 01_01, QAQC & Sinks Spreadsheet NHDPlus04V01_01_QAQC_Sinks Excel Spreadsheet
Region 04, Version 01_01, Stream Gage Event NHDPlus04V01_01_StreamGageEvent DBF

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