Upper Susquehanna-Tunkhannock -- Cataloging Unit 02050106

• 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 100.0% Pennsylvania.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 5176.8 km² ( 1999.6 mi² ) [% in USA = 79.77, % in Region = 92.63]
  The area from the USGS is 1980 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 2076)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 2066688 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 406.5 m ( 1333.6 ft ) [% in USA = 50.40, % in Region = 73.68]
  The elevation standard deviation is 105.3 m ( 345.5 ft ) [% in USA = 56.89, % in Region = 61.05]
  The coefficient of variation is 25.9 %.
  The vertical relief is 630.2 m ( 2067.6 ft ) [% in USA = 58.69, % in Region = 65.26]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	161.8	281.9	329.8	354.7	369.6	395.0	419.5	443.2	476.4	560.0	792.0
  feet	530.8	924.9	1082.0	1163.7	1212.6	1295.9	1376.3	1454.1	1563.0	1837.2	2598.4

  

  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	995.5	618.7	0.192	0.309	79.54	57.89
  Intermittent Shoreline	0.2	0.1	0.000	0.000	28.90	54.74
  Perennial Streams	2961.2	1840.4	0.572	0.920	89.20	70.53
  Intermittent Streams	577.7	359.0	0.112	0.180	20.65	62.11
  Canals	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	35.62	37.89
  1° roads	63.8	39.6	0.012	0.020	58.27	23.16
  2° roads	217.2	135.0	0.042	0.068	73.99	50.53
  3° roads	766.5	476.4	0.148	0.238	84.70	54.74
  4° roads	6750.1	4195.2	1.304	2.098	64.71	29.47
  Total Roads	7797.6	4846.2	1.506	2.424	69.02	32.63
  Railroads	300.6	186.8	0.058	0.093	65.28	34.74
  Pipes and Powerlines	216.4	134.5	0.042	0.067	63.29	42.11

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 12.74% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 17.48, % in Region = 62.11]

  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