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8-Digit Watersheds, New York State, 1994

Identification Information
Citation
Originator
U.S. Geological Survey
Publication Date
1994
Title
8-Digit Watersheds, New York State, 1994
Geospatial Data Presentation Form
vector digital data
Publication Information
Publication Place
Reston, Virginia
Publisher
U.S. Geological Survey
Online Linkage
https://cugir.library.cornell.edu/catalog/cugir-007314
Abstract
This shapefile contains the boundaries of the 8-digit watersheds that intersect New York State.
Purpose
These hydrologic unit boundaries provide a uniquely identified and uniform method of subdividing the state into large drainage areas at 1:250,000 scale.
Supplemental Information
The 8-digit hydrologic unit codes for each watershed indicate the hydrologic region (first two digits), hydrologic subregion (second two digits), accounting unit (third two digits), and cataloging unit (fourth two digits), as defined by the USGS. This dataset was extracted from the national 1:250,000-scale dataset that is available on the USGS Water Resources website: http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/huc.html
Temporal Extent
Currentness Reference
publication date
Time Instant
1994
Bounding Box
West
-80.756076
East
-71.856717
North
44.999905
South
40.096989
Theme Keyword
Hydrologic Units
Watershed Boundaries
8 Digit HUC
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
None
ISO Topic Category
inlandWaters
environment
Theme Keyword
inland waters
environment
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
CUGIR Category
Place Keyword
New York (State)
Place Keyword Thesaurus
LCSH
Temporal Keyword
Access Restrictions
None
Use Restrictions
None
Status
Complete
Maintenance and Update Frequency
None planned
Data Quality Information
Logical Consistency Report
Unknown
Completeness Report
Only watersheds that intersect New York State are included in this dataset, and these watersheds have been left intact (rather than being clipped to the state border). Some portions of the northern border of New York State were not included in the national dataset, and thus are not included here.
Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report
These data were digitized at a scale of 1:250,000 with some portions of coverage at 1:100,000 and 1:2,000,000 scale. Limitations of the data strictly revolve around this scale input. Use of these boundaries with larger scale data (i.e. 1:24k hydrography) is not recommended as it would be beyond the resolution capabilities of the data set.
Lineage
Source
Originator
Steeves, Peter and Douglas Nebert
Publication Date
1994
Title
1:250,000-scale Hydrologic Units of the United States
Edition
1
Geospatial Data Presentation Form
vector digital data
Series Information
Series Name
Open-File Report
Issue Identification
94-0236
Publication Information
Publication Place
Reston, Virginia
Publisher
U.S. Geological Survey
Online Linkage
http://water.usgs.gov/lookup/getspatial?huc250k
Source Scale Denominator
250000
Type of Source Media
online
Source Temporal Extent
Time Period Information
Single Date/Time
Calendar Date
1994
Source Currentness Reference
publication date
Contribution
Data was extracted from this source.
Spatial Data Organization Information
Direct Spatial Reference Method
Vector
Point and Vector Object Information
SDTS Terms Description
SDTS Point and Vector Object Type
Polygon
Point and Vector Object Count
52
Spatial Reference Information
Horizontal Coordinate System Definition
Geographic
Latitude Resolution
0.000001
Longitude Resolution
0.000001
Geographic Coordinate Units
Decimal degrees
Geodetic Model
Horizontal Datum Name
World Geodetic System 1984
Ellipsoid Name
WGS_1984
Semi-major Axis
6378137.000000
Denominator of Flattening Ratio
298.257224
Entity and Attribute Information
Entity Type
Entity Type Label
Watershed
Entity Type Definition
8-Digit Hydrologic Units
Entity Type Definition Source
USGS
Attributes
AREA
Area of the watershed, in square meters (0 to unbounded)
Definition Source
USGS
PERIMETER
Perimeter of the watershed, in meters (0 to unbounded)
Definition Source
USGS
HUC_NUMBER
Hydrologic Unit Code number (Hydrologic Unit Codeshttp://pubs.usgs.gov/wsp/wsp2294/)
Definition Source
USGS
HUC_NAME
Hydrologic Unit Code name (Hydrologic Unit Codeshttp://pubs.usgs.gov/wsp/wsp2294/)
Definition Source
USGS
Distribution Information
Format Name
Shapefile
Format Name
metadata
Format Name
HTML metadata
Format Name
KML
Format Name
GeoJSON
Format Name
OGC:WMS
Distributor
Albert R. Mann Library
Online Access
https://cugir-data.s3.amazonaws.com/00/73/14/cugir-007314.zip
Online Access
https://cugir-data.s3.amazonaws.com/00/73/14/fgdc.xml
Online Access
https://cugir-data.s3.amazonaws.com/00/73/14/fgdc.html
Online Access
https://cugir.library.cornell.edu/geoserver/cugir/wfs?version=1.0.0request=GetFeaturetypeName=cugir007314outputFormat=application%2Fvnd.google-earth.kml%2Bxml
Online Access
https://cugir.library.cornell.edu/geoserver/cugir/wfs?version=1.0.0request=GetFeaturetypeName=cugir007314outputFormat=application%2Fjson
Online Access
https://cugir.library.cornell.edu/geoserver/cugir/wms?version=1.1.0request=GetMaplayers=cugir007314bbox=-81.02305677,39.94990152,-71.58973623,45.14699248width=256height=141srs=EPSG:4326format=image/png
Name
Metadata Reference Information
Metadata Date
20210712
Metadata Contact
Contact Information
Contact Organization Primary
Contact Organization
Albert R. Mann Library
Contact Address
Address
Albert R. Mann Library
City
Ithaca
State or Province
New York
Postal Code
14853
Country
USA
Contact Voice Telephone
607-255-5406
Contact Electronic Mail Address
mann-ref@cornell.edu
Metadata Standard Name
FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata Standard Version
FGDC-STD-001-1998
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