LakeCat

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).

Data and Resources

Field Value
accessLevel public
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describedBy https://gaftp.epa.gov/EPADataCommons/ORD/NHDPlusLandscapeAttributes/LakeCat/Documentation/DataDictionary.html
identifier https://doi.org/10.23719/1500884
license https://pasteur.epa.gov/license/sciencehub-license.html
modified 2017-07-11
programCode {020:096}
publisher U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD)
publisher_hierarchy U.S. Government > U.S. Environmental Protection Agency > U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD)
references {https://doi.org/10.1086/697966}
resource-type Dataset
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Groups
  • AmeriGEOSS
  • National Provider
  • North America
Tags
  • amerigeo
  • amerigeoss
  • aquatic-condition
  • catchments
  • ckan
  • geo
  • geoss
  • lakes
  • national
  • national-aquatic-resource-surveys
  • national-hydrography-dataset
  • national-hydrography-dataset-plus-nhdplus
  • north-america
  • spatial-prediction
  • streams
  • united-states
  • watershed-metrics
  • watersheds
isopen False
license_id other-license-specified
license_title other-license-specified
maintainer Scott Leibowitz
maintainer_email leibowitz.scott@epa.gov
metadata_created 2025-11-22T18:40:05.724399
metadata_modified 2025-11-22T18:40:05.724403
notes 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).
num_resources 1
num_tags 18
title LakeCat