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 TYPELAND USELAND USE
 square mileshectares
open water1.91085831649.491
low intensity residential0.97992734225.38
high intensity residential0.0378766240.981
commercial/industrial/transportation0.1685336034.365
transitional00
deciduous forest12.16812614315.153
evergreen forest1.04699329127.117
mixed forest1.05116319427.225
pasture/hay7.398798921191.628
row crops2.51584182765.16
urban/recreational grasses0.2251747935.832
woody wetlands0.3447120298.928
emergent herbaceous wetlands0.0010424760.027
AREA25.93819024671.796

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