LakeCat

Published by U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD) | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | Metadata Last Checked: June 27, 2025 | Last Modified: 2017-07-11

The LakeCat Dataset provides summaries of watershed features for 378,088 lakes within the conterminous USA and provides several hundred watershed-level metrics that summarize both natural (e.g., soils, geology, climate, and land cover) and anthropogenic (e.g., urbanization, agriculture, and mines) features. This dataset is associated with the following publication: Hill, R., M. Weber, R. Debbout, S. Leibowitz, and T. Olsen. The Lake-Catchment (LakeCat) Dataset: Characterizing landscape features for lake basins within the conterminous USA. Freshwater Science. The Society for Freshwater Science, Springfield, IL, 37: 208-221, (2018).

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Complete Metadata

bureauCode	[ "020:00" ]
describedBy	https://gaftp.epa.gov/EPADataCommons/ORD/NHDPlusLandscapeAttributes/LakeCat/Documentation/DataDictionary.html
identifier	https://doi.org/10.23719/1500884
programCode	[ "020:096" ]
references	[ "https://doi.org/10.1086/697966" ]
rights	null