Delaware Vegetation Community/Land Cover Mapping Project

 

     This project was started when Robert Coxe worked at the Delaware Division of Fish and Wildlife and continues to this day at Baccharis Consulting LLC.  The goal is to produce a vegetation community/land cover map drawn to 2007 aerial imagery of Delaware that has no minimum mapping unit and is the best that can be produced.  Once the 2007 maps are completed, it is intended to go to other imagery sets (2002, 2012 and others) in order to have a comparison of change over time in regards to sea level rise, vegetation communities/land covers and climate change.  These analyzes have already been completed for most of the managed lands (State Parks and Wildlife Areas) in Delaware.

Structure of Links to Watershed Maps

 

     All of the vegetation community/land cover maps in Delaware are mapped by watershed.  Each of the sub menus will take you to the individual watersheds in Delaware.  Each watershed subsection includes a summary of the watershed and status of the mapping in the watershed.  Also included are shapefiles of the watershed map and a report of the watershed if it is complete.  There are also links to managed area reports if they are located within a particular watershed.

Watershed Links

 

Appoquinimink River Watershed–New Castle County, Delaware.

Army Creek Watershed–New Castle County, Delaware

Assawoman Bay Watershed–Sussex County, Delaware

Augustine Creek Watershed–New Castle County, Delaware

Back Creek Watershed–New Castle County, Delaware

Big Elk Creek Watershed–New Castle County, Delaware

Blackbird Creek Watershed–New Castle County, Delaware

Bohemia River Watershed–New Castle County, Delaware

Brandywine Creek Watershed–New Castle County, Delaware

Breakwater Harbor Watershed–Sussex County, Delaware

Broad Creek Watershed–Sussex County, Delaware

Broad Dyke Watershed–New Castle County, Delaware

Broadkill River Watershed–Sussex County, Delaware

Bunting Branch Watershed–Sussex County, Delaware

C and D Canal Watershed–New Castle County, Delaware

Cedar Creek Watershed–Sussex County, Delaware

Cedar Swamp Watershed–New Castle County, Delaware

Chester River Watershed–New Castle and Kent Counties, Delaware

Choptank River Watershed–Kent County, Delaware

Christina River Watershed–New Castle County, Delaware

Deep Creek Watershed–Sussex County, Delaware

Dragon Run Watershed–New Castle County, Delaware

Duck Creek Watershed–Kent County, Delaware

Gravelly Branch Watershed–Sussex County, Delaware

Gum Branch Watershed–Sussex County, Delaware

Houston Branch Watershed–Sussex County, Delaware

Indian River Watershed–Sussex County, Delaware

Indian River Bay Watershed–Sussex County, Delaware

Leipsic River Watershed–Kent County, Delaware

Lewes-Rehoboth Canal Watershed–Sussex County, Delaware

Little Assawoman Bay Watershed–Sussex County, Delaware

Little Creek Watershed–Kent County, Delaware

Lower Delaware Bay Watershed–New Castle and Kent Counties, Delaware

Lower Delaware Bayshore Watershed–Kent and Sussex Counties, Delaware

Marshyhope Creek Watershed–Sussex County, Delaware

Mispillion River Watershed–Kent and Sussex Counties, Delaware

Mockingbird Branch Watershed–Sussex County, Delaware

Murderkill River Watershed–Kent County, Delaware

Naamans Creek Watershed–New Castle County, Delaware

Nanticoke River Watershed–Kent and Sussex Counties, Delaware

Northern Atlantic Strand Watershed–Sussex County, Delaware

Pea Patch Island Watershed–New Castle County, Delaware

Perch Creek Watershed–New Castle County, Delaware

Pocomoke River Watershed–Sussex County, Delaware

Prime Hook Creek Watershed–Sussex County, Delaware

Red Clay Creek Watershed–New Castle County, Delaware

Red Lion Creek Watershed–New Castle County, Delaware

Red Mill Creek Watershed–Sussex County, Delaware

Rehoboth Bay Watershed–Sussex County, Delaware

Sassafras River Watershed–New Castle County, Delaware

Shellpot Creek Watershed–New Castle County, Delaware

Simons River Watershed–Kent County, Delaware

Slaughter Creek Watershed–Sussex County, Delaware

Smyrna River Watershed–New Castle and Kent Counties, Delaware

Southern Atlantic Strand–Sussex County, Delaware

St. Jones River Watershed–Kent County, Delaware

Stoney Creek Watershed–New Castle County, Delaware

Tanyard Branch Watershed–Sussex County, Delaware

Upper Delaware Bay Watershed–New Castle County, Delaware

Upper Delaware River Watershed–New Castle County, Delaware

White Clay Creek Watershed–New Castle County, Delaware

Wicomico River Watershed–Sussex County, Delaware