Schuylkill -- Cataloging Unit 02040203

• Lower Delaware Accounting Unit 020402
  
• Delaware Subregion 0204
  
• Mid-Atlantic Region 02 (There are 95 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 100.0% Pennsylvania.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 5001.5 km² ( 1931.9 mi² ) [% in USA = 77.83, % in Region = 91.58]
  The area from the USGS is 1900 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 3846)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 1997382 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 169.5 m ( 556.1 ft ) [% in USA = 21.55, % in Region = 47.37]
  The elevation standard deviation is 103.4 m ( 339.2 ft ) [% in USA = 56.23, % in Region = 56.84]
  The coefficient of variation is 61.0 %.
  The vertical relief is 628.0 m ( 2060.3 ft ) [% in USA = 58.60, % in Region = 64.21]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	0.0	61.7	91.0	105.6	122.0	148.6	158.7	188.1	240.3	321.1	628.0
  feet	0.0	202.4	298.6	346.5	400.3	487.5	520.7	617.1	788.4	1053.5	2060.3

  

  V. Map Line Analysis

  Note- percentiles are for the feature density, not for the raw total lengths.
  

  line type	km	mi	km/km²	mi/mi²	% in USA	% in Region
  Perennial Shoreline	789.6	490.8	0.158	0.254	73.76	49.47
  Intermittent Shoreline	57.9	36.0	0.012	0.019	86.83	98.95
  Perennial Streams	2428.4	1509.2	0.486	0.781	80.48	47.37
  Intermittent Streams	181.7	112.9	0.036	0.058	11.37	46.32
  Canals	29.3	18.2	0.006	0.009	59.92	71.58
  1° roads	458.2	284.8	0.092	0.147	96.21	78.95
  2° roads	233.4	145.1	0.047	0.075	79.20	57.89
  3° roads	1027.7	638.7	0.205	0.331	92.14	80.00
  4° roads	15509.5	9639.2	3.101	4.989	97.87	88.42
  Total Roads	17228.8	10707.8	3.445	5.543	97.68	85.26
  Railroads	1135.1	705.5	0.227	0.365	98.63	94.74
  Pipes and Powerlines	168.6	104.8	0.034	0.054	55.42	30.53

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 6.93% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 12.51, % in Region = 54.74]

  VI. Other sites

  • EPA- Surf Your Watershed - Index of Watershed Indicators
  • USGS- Science in Your Watershed - Selected Realtime Streamflow Stations
  • CTIC- Known Your Watershed

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  1999 SEPT 4, Last updated on 2003 JAN 23
  
  D.L. Gustafson, dlg@rapid.msu.montana.edu