Horton (1933) Ordered Drainage Pattern of Lower Michigan


1st Order = Blue
2nd Order = Green
3rd Order = Yellow
4th Order = Orange
5th Order = Red

For statewide map above and zoom maps below:
 

  • Modified from the ERDAS data set of the Michigan State University Center for Remote Sensing.
  • Base from U.S. Geological Survey 1:500,000 Lambert conformal conic projection provided by the Midcontinent Mapping Center of the Earth Science Information Center.
  • Base digitized by David Westjohn and Tom Weaver.
  • 17,921 1-km-squared pixels define drainage based on the Michigan Hydrologic Unit Map (1974) of the U.S. Geological Survey.
  • Pixels reduced from ERDAS set by Gary Huffman to minimally define confluences and headlands.
  • Pixels downstream and Horton ordered using CANOE.FOR by John Hoaglund.



    • Northern Michigan Rivers
    1st Order = Blue
    2nd Order = Green
    3rd Order = Yellow
    4th Order = Orange
    5th Order = Red
     


    Central Michigan Rivers (note 5th order Saginaw and Grand Rivers occupy former postions of Glacial Lake Saginaw and Glacial Grand River drainage)
    1st Order = Blue
    2nd Order = Green
    3rd Order = Yellow
    4th Order = Orange
    5th Order = Red

    Southern Michigan Rivers (Note interception of 3rd order Huron River from southwest to southeast flow across Fort Wayne moraine in northern Washtenaw county and southern Livingston county)
    1st Order = Blue
    2nd Order = Green
    3rd Order = Yellow
    4th Order = Orange
    5th Order = Red