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California Business Rules for Updating the National Hydrography Dataset, 2021 update
This document describes the rules that our stewardship program's editors of California's portion of the NHD followed when editing the data. These rules were written for editing work for the 1:24,000 scale NHD. The authors are Erik Fintel of the California State University, Chico Center for Geographical Studies, and Joel Osuna-Williams of the California State University, Northridge Center for Geospatial Science and Technology. Please direct questions to the lead steward for the California NHD at Jane.Schafer-Kramer@water.ca.gov.
Resource details
| Format | |
|---|---|
| Last updated | Sep 4, 2026 |
| Part of | National Hydrography Data - NHD and 3DHP |
Other resources in this dataset
- Access 3D Hydrography Program (3DHP) Data Products
- USGS - NHD Staged Products Directory
- Download NHD Data & Maps from The National Map
- National Hydrography Overlay Map Service (ArcGIS)
- The National Map Services
- Hydrography Presentations
- California NHD Stewardship Website
- USGS National Hydrography Website
- USGS 3D Hydrography Program
- NHD Data Dictionary
- 3D Hydrography Program Products: 3DHP_all 2023 Service Specification | U.S. Geological Survey
- NHD Stewardship Reports to the California Geographic Information Association Community Council
- CDEC Flow Stations with NHD Attributes
- NHD Major Rivers Geodatabase
- NHD Major Rivers Geopackage
- NHD Major Rivers Shapefile
- NHD Major Rivers and Creeks Geodatabase
- NHD Major Rivers and Creeks Geopackage
- NHD Major Rivers and Creeks Shapefile
- NHD Major Lakes and Reservoirs Geodatabase
- NHD Major Lakes and Reservoirs Geopackage
- NHD Major Lakes and Reservoirs Shapefile
- How to Use the NHD Visibility Filter in a GIS
- Reference Data Used in Updating the California NHD
- NHD Data Model v2.3 Poster
- USGS Hydrography Datasets Playlist on YouTube
- USGS Letter re: End of NHD Editing
- USGS 3D Hydrography Program
- Hydrography Data Stewardship: Transitioning to the 3D Hydrography Program
- Elevation-Derived Hydrography Challenges and Solutions, July 2023
- Elevation Derived Hydrography Presentation, Esri User Conference 20240716
- NHDPlus High Resolution User's Guide