Land Use Land Cover for Selected Basins in Clarksburg, Montgomery County, MD

This dataset contains digitized land use/land cover (LULC) for the years 2011, 2015, and 2017. The dataset contains 1-meter resolution raster maps for each year covering the geographic area for six watersheds within and near the Clarksburg Special Protection Area located in Montgomery County, Maryland, USA. The area includes LULC within 500-foot buffered watersheds. Watershed boundaries for Cabin Branch (CB), Crystal Rock (CR), Soper Branch (SB), Tributary 104 (T104), and Tributary 109 (T109) were derived using USGS topographic maps (1:24,000-scale) while Ten Mile Creek (TMC) was derived using Montgomery County, Maryland LiDAR data (1-meter resolution). LULC classes include a water class (10), impervious surface class (20), barren class (30), forest class (40), grass class (70), and agriculture class (80).

Data and Resources

Field Value
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Groups
  • AmeriGEOSS
  • National Provider
  • North America
Tags
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  • clarksburg
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  • geoss
  • germantown
  • human-impacts
  • impervious-surfaces
  • land-use-and-land-cover
  • land-use-change
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  • montgomery-county
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  • united-states
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maintainer Kristina G Hopkins
maintainer_email khopkins@usgs.gov
metadata_created 2025-11-22T18:04:01.730965
metadata_modified 2025-11-22T18:04:01.730970
notes This dataset contains digitized land use/land cover (LULC) for the years 2011, 2015, and 2017. The dataset contains 1-meter resolution raster maps for each year covering the geographic area for six watersheds within and near the Clarksburg Special Protection Area located in Montgomery County, Maryland, USA. The area includes LULC within 500-foot buffered watersheds. Watershed boundaries for Cabin Branch (CB), Crystal Rock (CR), Soper Branch (SB), Tributary 104 (T104), and Tributary 109 (T109) were derived using USGS topographic maps (1:24,000-scale) while Ten Mile Creek (TMC) was derived using Montgomery County, Maryland LiDAR data (1-meter resolution). LULC classes include a water class (10), impervious surface class (20), barren class (30), forest class (40), grass class (70), and agriculture class (80).
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title Land Use Land Cover for Selected Basins in Clarksburg, Montgomery County, MD