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Does the NHD contain stream order?

April 26, 2017contain nhd stream

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Does the NHD contain stream order?

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No, the NHD does not contain stream order. It does contain the attribute ‘stream level’, which also categorizes streams but using a different approach. An explanation of stream level can be found on the NHD website at: http://nhd.usgs.gov/chapter1/index.html#_Toc474479764 The US Environmental Protection Agency is working on computing stream order for their copy of the NHD which is stored in their Reach Address Database (RAD). There are no plans to store stream order in the NHD Central Database (the FOD) nor to distribute stream order with the NHD workspaces. Can you use NHDinARC in ArcMap? Yes. Do the relates used in NHDinARC work in ArcMap? The relates that are distributed with the NHDinARC data were developed for application in ArcInfo Workstation. Unfortunately these relates are not applicable in ArcMap. ArcMap, however, does provide capabilities to link to related tables. For the labeling application that you mention below, probably the best bet in ArcMap would be to use a table jo