The Ohio water resource region is one of 21 major geographic areas, or regions, in the first level of classification used by the United States Geological Survey to divide and sub-divide the United States into successively smaller hydrologic units. These geographic areas contain either the drainage area of a major river, or the combined drainage areas of a series of rivers.[1][2]

The Ohio region, which is listed with a 2-digit hydrologic unit code (HUC) of 05, has an approximate size of 162,916 square miles (421,950 square kilometers), and consists of 14 subregions, which are listed with the 4-digit HUCs 0501 through 0514.

This region includes the drainage of the Ohio River Basin, excluding the Tennessee River Basin. Includes parts of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.[3]

The Ohio region, with its 14 4-digit sub-region hydrologic unit boundaries.

List of water resource subregions

Subregion HUC[4] Subregion Name[4] Subregion Description[3] Subregion Location[4] Subregion Size[4] Subregion Map
0501 Allegheny Subregion SubregionThe Allegheny River Basin.Pennsylvania and New York.11,600 sq mi (30,000 km2)
HUC0501
HUC0501
0502 Monongahela Subregion SubregionThe Monongahela River Basin.Maryland, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.7,310 sq mi (18,900 km2)
HUC0502
HUC0502
0503 Upper Ohio Subregion SubregionThe Ohio River Basin below the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela River Basins to the confluence with the Kanawha River Basin, excluding the Muskingum River Basin.Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.13,200 sq mi (34,000 km2)
HUC0503
HUC0503
0504 Muskingum Subregion SubregionThe Muskingum River Basin.Ohio7,980 sq mi (20,700 km2)
HUC0504
HUC0504
0505 Kanawha Subregion SubregionThe Kanawha River Basin.North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia.12,200 sq mi (32,000 km2)
HUC0505
HUC0505
0506 Scioto Subregion SubregionThe Scioto River Basin.Ohio6,440 sq mi (16,700 km2)
HUC0506
HUC0506
0507 Big Sandy–Guyandotte Subregion SubregionThe Big Sandy and Guyandotte River Basins.Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia.5,900 sq mi (15,000 km2)
HUC0507
HUC0507
0508 Great Miami Subregion SubregionThe Great Miami River Basin.Indiana and Ohio.5,330 sq mi (13,800 km2)
HUC0508
HUC0508
0509 Middle Ohio Subregion SubregionThe Ohio River Basin below the confluence with the Kanawha River Basin to the confluence with the Kentucky River Basin, excluding the Big Sandy, Great Miami, Guyandotte, Kentucky, Licking and Scioto River Basins.Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia.8,850 sq mi (22,900 km2)
HUC0509
HUC0509
0510 Kentucky–Licking Subregion SubregionThe Licking and Kentucky River Basins.Kentucky10,500 sq mi (27,000 km2)
HUC0510
HUC0510
0511 Green Subregion SubregionThe Green River Basin.Kentucky and Tennessee.9,140 sq mi (23,700 km2)
HUC0511
HUC0511
0512 Wabash Subregion SubregionThe Wabash River Basin.Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio.32,600 sq mi (84,000 km2)
HUC0512
HUC0512
0513 Cumberland Subregion SubregionThe Cumberland River Basin.Kentucky and Tennessee.17,700 sq mi (46,000 km2)
HUC0513
HUC0513
0514 Lower Ohio Subregion SubregionThe Ohio River Basin below the confluence with the Kentucky River Basin, to the confluence with the Mississippi River, excluding the Cumberland, Green, Tennessee, and Wabash River Basins.Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky.12,500 sq mi (32,000 km2)
HUC0514
HUC0514

See also

  • Jr, Richard M. Bloyd (1974). Summary appraisals of the nation's ground-water resources – Ohio region (PDF) (Report). U.S. Geological Survey. doi:10.3133/pp813a. Retrieved 2023-09-16.

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