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This data release includes river bathymetry data published in ScienceBase that have been subsequently standardized into the GeoPackage format. A GeoPackage is an open-source geospatial format that can store both raster and vector files. The hydrographic address of the data is stored in the GeoPackage to enable queries of position relative to streamgages or upstream or downstream flow directions. Each GeoPackage is organized with a common set of logical relationships or schema. The schema used herein consists of multiple tables. A data table, as the name implies, contains the data itself in X, Y, Z format. The geometry table contains hydrographic addressing information derived from the minimal geospatial format necessary to represent data coverage, such as a coverage polygon or a line representing a cross-section that provides more spatial fidelity than a simple bounding box. 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