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    River Basins

    Metadata Updated: March 22, 2026

    Wake County is split between two River Basins (6-digit Hydrologic Unit Code), the Cape Fear River Basin and Neuse River Basins.  River basins are determined by the US Geological Survey (USGS).  USGS delineates drainage areas at 6 different levels all nesting within each other.  These levels start at a regional scale and are given a 2-digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC).  Two digits are added to the code at each level as it progresses to a smaller drainage area.  River basins are at the third level and designated with a 6-digit HUC.  
    Additional information about USGS's WDB can be found at this link.
    If you would like to find out more about River Basins across the state of NC, visit the Find Your HUC website.  

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. See Terms License: Creative Commons Attribution

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date February 22, 2026
    Metadata Updated Date March 22, 2026

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Wake County Open Data Json Harvest Source

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date February 22, 2026
    Metadata Updated Date March 22, 2026
    Publisher Wake County
    Maintainer
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    Data First Published 2016-06-27T20:41:41.000Z
    Data Last Modified 2018-12-31T22:04:43.439Z
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
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    Harvest Source Id 8ed9cb64-3f9c-4c51-a89f-7ec8140833a3
    Harvest Source Title Wake County Open Data Json Harvest Source
    Homepage URL https://data-wake.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/Wake::river-basins
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -78.9951,35.5198,-78.2511,36.0743
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash f2e205cac263161b3fd53fd16cbfb73bd903e65a53d76b128616692f15ac6f74
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