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Tracing Upstream Accumulation from a polygon start

Geographic Information Systems Asked by Laura on September 6, 2020

I am new to ESRI products (I typically use QGIS), but am using it in order to analyze upstream/downstream flowlines with the National Hydrography Dataset (specifically, HUC-4 mapping units for NHDPLUS HD data). In particular, I am hoping to select all upstream and then downstream flowlines from a polygon layer. An example might be – what are the upstream flowlines that flow into this state park? It seems like the only way to do this is the trace upstream flow accumulation by point (by dropping a flag). This will be prohibitively cumbersome to try and drop a flag at all of the points the polygon boundary intersects with NHD flowlines.

Is there a way to set the starting point from the polygon object itself? I have state parks in one layer, and NHD flowlines in another. My ultimate goal is to be able to identify upstream/downstream monitoring stations (which is a point layer of water quality monitoring stations).

One Answer

You can use the TraceGeometric network tool that powers the utility network analyst tools. It can use a point feature class instead of hand placed flags to get your locations.

https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/tools/data-management-toolbox/trace-geometric-network.htm#GUID-F9CF7E61-1AC8-42E5-988E-A8AE58A2414B

You could probably clip your NHD layer by state park polygons and then place points at the ends of NHD linework to get the pour point locations for the trace tool. But that may require a bit of scripting. As long as you can get the points where the streams intersetct the polygons the TraceGeometricNetwork tool should work just fine.

Answered by Ben on September 6, 2020

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