The plot_nhdplus function

plot_nhdplus is a work in progress. Not all inputs in the function have been implemented as of 11/18/2019 and additional functionality will be added later. Please leave feature requests and issues you find in an issue here.

plot_nhdplus is a function that makes getting a simple plot of NHDPlus data as easy as possible. It works with other functions from nhdplusTools for identifying and retrieving watershed outlet locations. See the plot_nhdplus documentation for more info.

If we pass plot_nhdplus a single NWIS site id, nhdplusTools uses web services to get data and we get a plot like this:

plot_nhdplus("05428500")

If we want to add other watersheds, we can use any outlet available from the Network Linked Data Index. See “nldi” functions elsewhere in nhdplusTools.

plot_nhdplus(list(list("nwissite", "USGS-05428500"),
                  list("huc12pp", "070900020602")))

plot_nhdplus(list(list("nwissite", "USGS-05428500"),
                  list("huc12pp", "070900020602")))

If we don’t know a site id, we can just pass in one or more latitude / longitude locations.

start_point <- sf::st_as_sf(data.frame(x = -89.36, y = 43.09), 
                            coords = c("x", "y"), crs = 4326)

plot_nhdplus(start_point)

plot_nhdplus also allows modification of streamorder (if you have data available locally) and styles. This plot request shows how to get a subset of data for a plot and the range of options. See documentation for more details.

source(system.file("extdata/sample_data.R", package = "nhdplusTools"))

plot_nhdplus(list(list("comid", "13293970"),
                  list("nwissite", "USGS-05428500"),
                  list("huc12pp", "070900020603"),
                  list("huc12pp", "070900020602")),
             streamorder = 2,
             nhdplus_data = sample_data,
             plot_config = list(basin = list(lwd = 2),
                                outlets = list(huc12pp = list(cex = 1.5),
                                               comid = list(col = "green"))))

We can also plot NHDPlus data without an outlet at all.

bbox <- sf::st_bbox(c(xmin = -89.56684, ymin = 42.99816, xmax = -89.24681, ymax = 43.17192),
                    crs = "+proj=longlat +datum=WGS84 +no_defs")
plot_nhdplus(bbox = bbox)