Chincoteague -- Cataloging Unit 02060010

• Upper Chesapeake Subregion 0206
  
• Mid-Atlantic Region 02 (There are 95 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 44.0% Delaware, 40.2% Maryland, 15.7% Virginia.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 1938.7 km² ( 748.9 mi² ) [% in USA = 18.24, % in Region = 23.16]
  The area from the USGS is 742 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 1932)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 774436 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 4.5 m ( 14.8 ft ) [% in USA = 1.61, % in Region = 7.37]
  The elevation standard deviation is 4.4 m ( 14.4 ft ) [% in USA = 1.94, % in Region = 6.32]
  The coefficient of variation is 97.8 %.
  The vertical relief is 15.0 m ( 49.2 ft ) [% in USA = 1.14, % in Region = 3.16]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	2.0	4.0	6.0	6.0	9.0	11.0	15.0
  feet	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	6.6	13.1	19.7	19.7	29.5	36.1	49.2

  

  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	1450.8	901.7	0.748	1.204	98.53	95.79
  Intermittent Shoreline	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	26.95	49.47
  Perennial Streams	714.0	443.8	0.368	0.593	66.41	14.74
  Intermittent Streams	20.6	12.8	0.011	0.017	6.87	33.68
  Canals	273.2	169.8	0.141	0.227	95.22	98.95
  1° roads	21.0	13.0	0.011	0.017	55.95	20.00
  2° roads	94.2	58.6	0.049	0.078	81.38	63.16
  3° roads	295.3	183.5	0.152	0.245	85.36	58.95
  4° roads	3038.2	1888.3	1.567	2.522	81.57	53.68
  Total Roads	3448.7	2143.4	1.779	2.862	83.89	53.68
  Railroads	79.5	49.4	0.041	0.066	50.50	22.11
  Pipes and Powerlines	84.0	52.2	0.043	0.070	64.95	44.21

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 0.94% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 4.93, % in Region = 27.37]

  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