Conneaut Lake Landcover statistics are calculated from the Conneaut Lake Watershed Landuse / Landcover map.

The National Land Cover Datasets for Pennsylvania were downloaded from USGS (http://landcover.usgs.gov/natllandcover.html) and clipped by the Conneaut Lake Watershed boundary.

The Conneaut Lake Watershed boundary was hand delineated using USGS 1:24,000 scale Topographic Maps.

Land Cover Class definitions are defined by USGS: (http://landcover.usgs.gov/classes.html)

(Data description prepared on July 10, 2003 by Andrea McMillen)

 

LAND TYPE LAND USE LAND USE
  square miles hectares
open water 1.910858316 49.491
low intensity residential 0.979927342 25.38
high intensity residential 0.037876624 0.981
commercial/industrial/transportation 0.168533603 4.365
transitional 0 0
deciduous forest 12.16812614 315.153
evergreen forest 1.046993291 27.117
mixed forest 1.051163194 27.225
pasture/hay 7.398798921 191.628
row crops 2.515841827 65.16
urban/recreational grasses 0.225174793 5.832
woody wetlands 0.344712029 8.928
emergent herbaceous wetlands 0.001042476 0.027
AREA 25.93819024 671.796

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