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Feature Description: Watercourse or channel through which water may occasionally flow (coulee, draw, gully, wash).
Range
FType: No FType for this feature
FCode: 15042
Feature Description: A single mass of hills or mountains; a complex, interconnected series of mountain ranges having a well-defined longitudinal trend (cordillera, mountain belt, sierra).
Ridge
FType: No FType for this feature
FCode: 15044
Feature Description: Elevation with a narrow, elongated crest that can be part of a hill or mountain (arête, crest, chenier, cuesta, divide, esker, hogback, mogote, lae, ridge, spur).
Summit*
FType: No FType for this feature
FCode: 15048
Feature Description: Prominent elevation rising above the surrounding level of the Earth's surface; does not include pillars, ridges, or ranges; can occur as a single isolated mass or in a group (ahu, ballon, berg, bald, butte, cerro, colina, cone, cumbre, dome, head, hill, horn, knob, knoll, mauna, mesa, mesita, mound, mount, mountain, peak, puʻu, rock, sugarloaf, table, volcano).
Valley
FType: No FType for this feature
FCode: 15050
Feature Description: Linear depression in the Earth's surface that generally slopes from one end to the other (barranca, canyon, chasm, cove, draw, glen, gorge, gulch, gulf, hollow, ravine).
Cartographic Representation
Features Not Symbolized
Annotation
Font Style
Font Size
Font Color
Halo Size
Halo Color
Placement Properties
Anno Graphic Depiction
Segoe UI Italic
9.00
0/0/0
0.8
240/240/240
Regular placement. Place straight inside the polygon.
*Summit feature has different placement properties: “Regular placement. Horizontal within the polygon.”