Montana Office, USDA Natural Resources Consevation Service

Lower Yellowstone River Corridor
Geomorphic Reconnaissance Resources

This page provides access to the Final Report, as well as two large PDF files showing the major sub-sections of the river, river miles, and major physical features on the river, overlain on the color photographs. Additional data resources may be posted here as requested by the TAC.

REPORTS AND MAPS

Geomorphic Reconnaissance and GIS Development: Yellowstone River, Montana, Springdale to the Missouri River Confluence FINAL REPORT
Middle and Lower Yellowstone River Subreach Boundary Map Sheet1 (36.52 MB)
Middle and Lower Yellowstone River Subreach Boundary Map Sheet2 (39.84 MB)
Historical Government Land Office Maps: by township range for project area – these are scanned, georectified images of GLO maps by Township Range (geotiff files). An index file is provided for reference (shapefile). All data are in Montana Stateplane NAD 83 projection.

GIS DATA FILES

These data were compiled in 2004.
Newer versions of many of these data files are available through the Montana GIS Portal

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
CIR Color Infrared Photography TIFF 1:24,000 Color Infra-red aerial photos from August 2001
Digital Orthophoto Quadrangle B&W Photography MrSID 1:12,000 aerial photography 1996-1997

BOUNDARIES
County Boundaries County.shp Shapefile Contains boundaries of all MT counties
Region Breaks Region_break_lines.shp Shapefile Boundary of the 4 major regions identified for the project
Valley Bottom Boundary Valley_bottom.shp Shapefile Boundary of the valley bottom
Land Ownership/Management Land_owner.shp Shapefile Boundaries of privately owned and publicly managed lands
Cadastral Cadastral.shp Shapefile Parcel boundaries and land owner’s name, address, and acreage
Conservation Districts Priority sites Cd_priority_reaches.shp Shapefile Reaches selected for the geomorphic assessment by conservation district offices along the Yellowstone River
LIDAR Corridor Lidar_corridor_proposed.shp Shapefile Proposed corridor for the LIDAR data acquisition flight.
3-Mile Segment Polygons 3_mile_segment_poly.shp Shapefile 3-mile segments used to calculate statistics for the LIDAR corridor
Flooodplain Mapping Reaches Flood_map_reaches.shp Shapefile Nominated floodplain mapping reaches
Subreach Line Boundaries Subreach_line.shp Shapefile Linear delineations of subreaches used for geomorphic analysis
Subreach Boundary Polygons Subreach_poly.shp Shapefile Polygon boundaries of subreaches used for geomorphic analysis

ELEVATION
30 meter DEM Dem30m - Contact NRIS for copy Grid 30 m resolution digital elevation model
30 meter SRTM elevation data SRTM - Contact NRIS for copy Grid 30 m resolution elevation data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission

GEOLOGY
Statewide Geology Geology_500k.shp Shapefile 1:500,000 scale statewide geology data
MBMG geology data Geology_100k.shp Shapefile 1:100,000 scale geology data by quadrangle (where available)

HYDROLOGY
NHD Centerline NHD_centerline.shp Shapefile 1:100,000 scale hydrology data for the Yellowstone River
NHD Centerline Station Points NHD_station_pts_1_mi.shp Shapefile 1 mile station points along the Yellowstone River NHD centerline
Lower Yellowstone Channels Yell_channels_2001.shp Shapefile Primary, secondary, overflow and anabranching channels digitized off from the 2001 1:24,000 CIR aerial photos
Lower Yellowstone Centerline Station Points Yell_channels_station_pts_1_mi.shp Shapefile 1 mile station points along the Yellowstone River centerline from the CIR
TIGER hydrology Tiger_hydro.shp Shapefile Streams and rivers from 2000 census data
Tributary confluence points Trib_confluences_pt.shp Shapefile Points representing confluences of the major rivers and streams and the Yellowstone River

MISCELLANEOUS
Floodplains Femaq3_COE.shp Shapefile Floodplain delineations from the Corps of Engineers
Cities cities.shp Shapefile Cities along the Yellowstone River corridor
Geographic Names Information System gnis.shp Shapefile Contains labels of all features on USGS maps of Montana
Physical Features Line data Phys_feature_ln.shp Shapefile Physical features inventory as lines
Physical Features Point data Phys_feature_pt.shp Shapefile Physical features inventory as points
Wells wells.shp Shapefile Well data from the Ground Water Information Center
Valley Bottom Centerline Valley_centerline.shp Shapefile Centerline of the valley bottom
Valley Bottom Centerline Station Points Valley_centerline_station_pts_1_mi.shp Shapefile 1 mile station points along the valley centerline

SOILS
Soils soils.shp Shapefile 1:24,000 SSURGO soils data (where available)

VEGATATION
GAP Vegetation Yellveg - Contact NRIS for copy Grid 90 meter GAP vegetation
2003 Vegetation Inventory vegcover.shp Shapefile Vegetation inventory from 2003
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