Drainage-area boundaries for selected sampling stations, scale 1:100,000, Yellowstone River Basin, Montana, North Dakota, and Wyoming

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As part of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Water-Quality Assessment Program, an investigation of the Yellowstone River Basin study unit is being conducted to document status and trends in surface- and ground-water quality. Surface-water samples are collected from streams or lakes at specific sampling stations. Water-quality characteristics at each station are influenced by the natural and cultural characteristics of the drainage area upstream from the sampling station. Efficient quantification of the drainage area characteristics requires a digital map of the drainage area boundary that may be processed, together with other digital thematic maps (such as geology or land use), in a geographic information system (GIS). Digital drainage-area data for 45 selected stream-sampling stations in the Yellowstone River Basin are included in this data release. The drainage divides were identified chiefly using 1:100,000-scale (50 m accuracy) hypsography. Drainage areas based on 1:100,000-scale hypsography data generally agree to within 5 percent with drainage areas measured at 1:24,000 scale, for areas larger than 50 km2.

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55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.42f95dd6-87a1-462d-b7d1-e08e111e8a02.xml
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P95RARCB
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P95RARCB
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P95RARCB
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P95RARCB

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  • environment
  • montana
  • river-basin
  • usgs-42f95dd6-87a1-462d-b7d1-e08e111e8a02
  • wyoming
  • yellowstone-river-basin
  • geoscientificinformation
  • drainage-basin
  • watershed
  • inlandwaters
  • drainage-area
  • yellowstone-river
  • north-dakota

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