Necanicum Watershed
Necanicum Watershed
Introduction
The Necanicum Watershed offers
many different rich learning
experiences from fishing to GIS
spatial analysis the changing
ecosystem has much still to be
discovered or as someone once
said the mapping of the local secret
spots (fishing holes to geo-cash
locations).
CONTACT
Name: Rye Phillips & Carlie Bulen
Organization: WOU Earth Science
Email: Lphillips08@wou.edu
Email: Cbulen07@wou.edu
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By: Carlie Bulen & Rye Phillips
By: Rye Phillips & Carlie Bulen
Watershed Location General Geology Hydrologic Summary
The Necanicum Watershed is located on the In the Tillamook Head,
The Necanicum watershed Necanicum Junction,
Northwest Coast of Oregon. The watershed is
has a vast amount of soil and Saddle M.T.N.
composed of 9 1:24,000 State Quadrangles. Also
types composed within the Quadrangles lies the
having an average area per subbasian of 15.50
watershed. The soil main source location
square kilometers.
structure in the watershed for the larger creeks
has been lost over the and rivers. With the
years due to agriculture and vegetation consisting
These Quadrangles logging in the riparian zones of code 32
include Tillamook of the creeks and tributaries surrounding the main
Head, Necanicum that make up the hydrologic flow for the
Junction, Saddle Necanicum Watershed, but watershed. Along with
M.T.N., Arch Cape, riparian restoration is other significant
Nehalem, Soapstone underway in the area. tributaries in the
Lake, Hamlet, Olney, southern region.
Gearhart, and
Warrenton. All
together they have a
total drainage area of
249.39 square There are three significant
kilometers. With 19 densities of streams within the
different subbasins in The bedrock of the watershed. The most dense
the watershed. watershed consist locations of streams is located
of five different in the Southwest to south part
main types. They of the Tillamook Head
are basalt, gabbro, Quadrangle and to the
Physiography mudstone, Northwest to North part of the
Arch Cape Quadrangle. Then
sandstone, and the Saddle M.T.N. (Southwest
In the Necanicum watershed there are six different siltstone. An corner), Necanicum Junction
types of plants. The majority of the plants are interesting point on (Southeast corner), Soapstone
vegetation codes 32 and 121 roughly combined at this map is the Lake (Northeast corner), and
locations of the Hamlet (Northwest corner) of
54% of the total watersheds vegetation coverage. the Quadrangles. The least
The wetlands in the watershed are mainly dominant landslide areas
dense of the three is located
in the northern region composed of Warrenton, with proximity to
along the southern border of
Gearhart and Tillamook Head 1:24,000 State the roads with in Arch Cape and the northern
Quadrangles. the watershed. boarder of Nehalem
Quadrangles.
Conclusion
The Necanicum Watershed has a major contribution
to its surrounding area as well as an immense impact
upon the flora and fauna within the basin, from
drinking water to irrigation for agriculture the rich
Resources
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/map/_section/search.html landscape has been and will continued to be formed
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/map/_section/map_librarydata.html
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/map/gis_data/or_10mdemlist.html
through deposition and erosion within the system to
www.osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/digitalcollections/gis/index/doq_index.html carve the landscape in a specific way as the system
www.or.nrcs.usda.gov/pnw_soil/or_data.html
battles to stay within a specific entropy that has been
www.oregon.gov/DAS/EISPD/GEO/index.shtml
http://seamless.usgs.gov/website/seamless/viewer.htm molding and carving the land/bedrock for many
geologic years.