9  Land Use / Land Cover

The following information was generated using 2023 data from the USGS Annual National Land Cover Database. See Section A.4.2 for more detail.

9.1 Summary of Land Cover Types

value	Land Cover Class	Percent of Watershed
11	Open Water	6.4
21	Developed, Open Space	5.8
22	Developed, Low Intensity	2.5
23	Developed, Medium Intensity	0.8
24	Developed, High Intensity	0.2
31	Barren Land (Rock/Sand/Clay)	0.4
41	Deciduous Forest	1.0
42	Evergreen Forest	29.6
43	Mixed Forest	8.8
52	Shrub/Scrub	4.2
71	Grassland/Herbaceous	4.1
81	Pasture/Hay	13.4
82	Cultivated Crops	0.8
90	Woody Wetlands	20.8
95	Emergent Herbaceous Wetlands	1.3

9.2 Maps

Figure 9.1: 2023 Land Cover designations from the USGS National Land Cover Database.

9.2.1 Interactive

The pixels in this map have been aggregated so that 1 pixel represents each original 8x8 pixel grid (using the mode; the category that showed up most frequently in the grid). This was done to make it small enough to map interactively.

Figure 9.2: 2023 Land Cover designations from the USGS National Land Cover Database. Interactive when using the html format of this book.

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For information on data processing, see Appendix A.4.2.