nfhap_public_huc8
Hydrologic Unit: Watersheds in the United States and the Caribbean were delineated by the U.S. Geological Survey using a national standard hierarchical system based on surface hydrologic features and are classified into four types of hydrologic units: first-field (region), second-field (sub-region), third-field (accounting unit), and fourth-field (cataloguing unit). A fifth-field of classification (watershed) and sixth-field (sub-watershed) are currently under development. The United States and Caribbean are divided into 21 regions, 221 subregions, 378 accounting units, and 2,264 cataloguing units. A hydrologic unit can accept surface water directly from upstream drainage areas, and indirectly from associated surface areas such as remnant, non-contributing, and diversions to form a drainage area with single or multiple outlet points. Hydrologic units are only synonymous with classic watersheds when their boundaries include all the source area contributing surface water to a single defined outlet point. Hydrologic Unit Code: Each hydrologic unit is identified by a unique hydrologic unit code (HUC) consisting of two to twelve digits based on the six levels of classification: 8-digit HUC (Cataloguing Unit) 2-digit HUC first-level (region) 4-digit HUC second-level (subregion) 6-digit HUC third-level (accounting unit) 8-digit HUC fourth-level (cataloguing unit) 10-digit HUC fifth-level (watershed) 12-digit HUC sixth-level (subwatershed). This layer represents the 12-digit HUC sixth-level (subwatershed).
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Identification info
- Date ( Revision )
- 2016-09-13T18:20:51Z
- Date ( Publication )
- 2013-01-24T20:55:27Z
Point of contact
USGS-Core Science Systems -Biological Informatics Program
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12201 Sunrise Valley Drive MS 302 Reston, VA 20192-0002
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Reston
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20192
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USA
703-648-4070
- Keywords ( Theme )
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- Aquatic GAP HUC8 Hydrological Unit
- Service Type
- OGC:WMS
- Service Version
- 1.3.0
- Fees
- None
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- Use limitation
- None
Contains Operations
- Operation Name
- ASDD nodes zserver
- Connect Point
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ASDD Z3950 zserver
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z3950
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ASDD Z3950 zserver
- OnLine resource
- http://gis1.usgs.gov/arcgis/services/nfhap/nfhap_public_huc8/MapServer/WMSServer?SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetCapabilities
- OnLine resource
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Service in Spatineo Directory
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
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Service in Spatineo Directory
- File identifier
- 3b3edcfe-adb3-4a6f-be05-6e781e3bca5b XML
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Service
- Date stamp
- 2021-02-28T01:05:04Z
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
Overviews
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