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