Lower Yellowstone River Corridor Geomorphic Reconnaissance Resources

The Geomorphic Reconnaissance was performed in 2004.  This page provides access to the Final Report, and 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.

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).

GIS DATA FILES

These data were compiled in 2004.
Newer versions of many of these data files are available through the  Montana GIS Data List  and the Yellowstone Clearinghouse GIS Data List

• AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
  • Color Infrared Photography, August 2001
  • Black and White Digital Orthophoto Quadrangles, 1996-1997
• BOUNDARIES
  • County Boundaries
  • Project Region Boundaries
  • Boundary of Yellowstone Valley Bottom
  • Public Land Ownership
  • Private Land Ownership
  • Reaches selected for the geomorphic assessment by conservation district offices
  • Proposed corridor for the LIDAR data acquisition
  • 3-mile segments used to calculate LIDAR corridor statistics
  • Flooodplain Mapping Reaches
  • Subreach Line Boundaries
  • Subreach Boundary Polygons
• GEOLOGY
  • 1:500,000 scale Montana Geology, 1955
  • MBMG 1:100,00 scale geology data
• HYDROGRAPHY
  • Medium Resolution National Hydrography Dataset Centerlines
  • 1-mile Yellowstone River NHD Centerline Station Points
  • Lower Yellowstone River Channels, 2001
  • 1-mile Yellowstone River 2001 Centerline Station Points
  • 2000 Census TIGER streams and rivers
  • Tributary confluence points
• MISCELLANEOUS
  • Floodplain delineations from the Corps of Engineers
  • Cities
  • Geographic Names Information System
  • Physical Features Line data
  • Physical Features Point data
  • Well data from the Ground Water Information Center
  • Valley Bottom Centerline
  • 1-mile Valley Bottom Centerline Station Points
  • 1:24,000 SSURGO soils data
  • 90-meter GAP Vegetation
  • 2003 Vegetation Inventory