French Creek Watershed Subwatersheds in Pennsylvania - data documentation

The Pennsylvania small watershed coverage is from Environmental Resources Research Institute (ERRI), downloaded from PASDA (http://www.pasda.psu.edu). The Pennsylvania small watershed coverage was clipped by the French Creek Watershed boundary. The names of the watershed are as described by the coverage. The sub-watershed coverage description is below.

For more information: http://www.pasda.psu.edu/documents.cgi/watersheds/smallsheds.xml

The sub watershed coverage:
Abstract: Boundaries of 9,895 watersheds in Pennsylvania indicated in the Pennsylvania gazeteer of streams. These boundaries enclose catchment areas for named streams officially recognized by the Board on Geographic Names and other unofficially named streams that flow through named hollows. ERRI extracted, reprojected and edgematched datasets for major watersheds produced by the Water Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey into this smallsheds coverage of the state of Pennsylvania.

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