Upper Susquehanna -- Cataloging Unit 02050101

• Upper Susquehanna Accounting Unit 020501
  
• Susquehanna Subregion 0205
  
• Mid-Atlantic Region 02 (There are 95 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 88.4% New York, 11.6% Pennsylvania.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 5883.1 km² ( 2272.5 mi² ) [% in USA = 85.74, % in Region = 95.79]
  The area from the USGS is 2260 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 1748)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 2349079 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 467.6 m ( 1534.1 ft ) [% in USA = 54.71, % in Region = 84.21]
  The elevation standard deviation is 80.0 m ( 262.5 ft ) [% in USA = 50.50, % in Region = 48.42]
  The coefficient of variation is 17.1 %.
  The vertical relief is 525.9 m ( 1725.4 ft ) [% in USA = 54.43, % in Region = 49.47]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	250.0	365.0	396.0	426.1	453.9	468.9	487.0	511.2	531.9	573.5	775.9
  feet	820.2	1197.5	1299.2	1397.9	1489.2	1538.4	1597.7	1677.1	1745.1	1881.5	2545.6

  

  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	687.2	427.1	0.117	0.188	61.87	30.53
  Intermittent Shoreline	1.4	0.9	0.000	0.000	36.95	68.42
  Perennial Streams	4056.1	2520.9	0.689	1.109	96.31	93.68
  Intermittent Streams	25.0	15.6	0.004	0.007	4.36	26.32
  Canals	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	35.62	37.89
  1° roads	249.0	154.7	0.042	0.068	86.74	53.68
  2° roads	80.2	49.8	0.014	0.022	32.92	16.84
  3° roads	842.7	523.7	0.143	0.230	83.80	50.53
  4° roads	7352.4	4569.6	1.250	2.011	58.60	25.26
  Total Roads	8524.3	5297.9	1.449	2.331	65.66	29.47
  Railroads	413.6	257.1	0.070	0.113	74.09	50.53
  Pipes and Powerlines	323.9	201.3	0.055	0.089	74.94	58.95

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 0.55% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 3.79, % in Region = 21.05]

  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