Yellowstone River Corridor
Resource Clearinghouse
This web page provides a single point of access to a variety of data and publication resources that the State Library houses for the Yellowstone River Corridor. The listed data sets and publications were developed by several federal, state, and private entities. The intent is to provide a clearinghouse for information associated with the Yellowstone River Corridor.
2004/2007 maps and air photos of the Yellowstone may be viewed with the Montana GIS Portal Map Viewer. Go to http://gisportal.mt.gov and type planimetric in the search box. The first result should be for the Yellowstone air photo and planimetric data. Click on the View Map link to launch the Map Viewer, which will come up with the air photos turned on. You may zoom in and pan to any part of the river, and turn the photos and planimetric layers on and off.
Middle and Lower Yellowstone River: (Springdale to Missouri River)
These data were created as part of a joint investigation of the Yellowstone River stream corridor by the Yellowstone River Conservation Districts Council and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District . The interdisciplinary planning study extends 477 river miles from Sweetgrass County, Montana to the Missouri River confluence in McKenzie County, North Dakota. Data developed as part of the mapping project are intended to support hydraulic, geomorphic, biologic and socioeconomic analyses of the stream corridor ecosystem.
HYDRAULICS, HYDROLOGY, AND GEOMORPHOLOGY
- Yellowstone River Channel Migration Zone Maps (2009) This mapping supports the YRCDC in their efforts developing best management practices and performing a cumulative effects assessment of the river corridor.
- GIS Data depicting the Channel Migration Zone ESRI Personal Geodatabase format.
- Lower Yellowstone River Corridor Color Infrared Digital Orthophotography and Physical Feature Data (August, 2001) The Montana Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) produced these mosaics of color infrared aerial photography as a basis for resource inventory and monitoring. Currently, these images are available for download by county. In addition, the physical feature inventory data are also available in ESRI shapefile format.
- Lower Yellowstone Geomorphic Reconnaissance Results
PDF reports and GIS data files, March 2004 - Maps of "Representative Study Reaches" selected for the Yellowstone River Cumulative Effects Study. The representative study reaches are selected segments of the River corridor that will be the focus areas of the Yellowstone River Cumulative Effects Study. Each segment is portrayed in a PDF file that shows color infrared imagery, river miles, and physical feature data. An alternate version of each map is available showing parcel ownership boundaries (cadastral layer).
- 2004/2007 GIS Data and Aerial Photos from the Yellowstone River Floodplain Mapping Project. Stillwater, Yellowstone and Dawson Counties were mapped in 2004 and the remainder of the river corridor below Springdale was mapped in 2007. Aerial photos, digital elevation data, and vector gis roads, water bodies, structures, and topographic contours are available. (2007 Data added May 2009)
- Historic GIS Data and Aerial Photos Aerial photos, air photo mosaics, and reconnaissance-level channel flowlines and banklines for the Yellowstone River. Bankline and flowline data were developed using 1950 and 1976 imagery, and the 1995 USGS DOQQs and 2001 NRCS color infrared photos.
BIOLOGY
- Yellowstone River Fish Community Response to Anthropogenic Factors: Preliminary Evaluation
for the Cumulative Effects Study
To request a copy of this report, contact Nicole McClain at nmcclain@mt.gov or 406-222-0266, extension 2, or 406-223-5702.
SOCIOECONOMIC
- Yellowstone River Corridor Study Demographic and Economic Study Data Design
(Microsoft Word document)
This document details the types of economic and demographic information that should be included in the Yellowstone River Cumulative Effects Study. It is to be used by the database programmer and administer setting up, maintaining, and querying the database, as well as the analysts who will be collecting and populating the database fields with the actual data elements.
Upper Yellowstone River: (Gardiner to Springdale)
- Upper Yellowstone River Physical Features Inventory, October 1998: This report (interactive pdf) summarizes a physical features inventory conducted in 1998 at the request of the Governor’s Upper Yellowstone River Task Force (UYTF). The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service was requested to organize and coordinate the inventory by the Park Conservation District, (Park CD), and the UYTF. This report includes B&W aerial photography of the corridor in the project area.
- Montana Natural Heritage Program Report: Ecologically Significant Wetlands in the Upper Yellowstone River Watershed including the Boulder, Clarks Fork Yellowstone, Shields, and Stillwater River Drainages, August 2001. Full Report
- Montana Natural Heritage Program Report: Inventory of Important Biological Resources for the Upper Yellowstone River Watershed, June 2001. Full Report
Other data about the Yellowstone corridor can be found through the NRIS TopoFinder and Thematic Mapper applications. Updated DLG data for the Greater Yellowstone Area is also available.
