Upper St. John -- Cataloging Unit 01010001

• St. John Subregion 0101
  
• New England Region 01 (There are 53 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 100.0% Maine.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 5463.8 km² ( 2110.5 mi² ) [% in USA = 82.66, % in Region = 90.57]
  The area from the USGS is 2120 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 579)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 2181703 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 350.1 m ( 1148.6 ft ) [% in USA = 44.86, % in Region = 73.58]
  The elevation standard deviation is 85.7 m ( 281.2 ft ) [% in USA = 52.30, % in Region = 50.94]
  The coefficient of variation is 24.5 %.
  The vertical relief is 563.0 m ( 1847.1 ft ) [% in USA = 56.13, % in Region = 47.17]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	135.0	227.1	274.7	309.2	335.3	360.4	370.5	395.7	424.5	457.0	698.0
  feet	442.9	745.1	901.2	1014.4	1100.1	1182.4	1215.5	1298.2	1392.7	1499.3	2290.0

  

  V. Map Line Analysis

  Note- percentiles are for the feature density, not for the raw total lengths.
  

  line type	km	mi	km/km²	mi/mi²	% in USA	% in Region
  Perennial Shoreline	923.2	573.7	0.169	0.272	75.65	22.64
  Intermittent Shoreline	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	26.95	52.83
  Perennial Streams	1812.6	1126.5	0.332	0.534	61.77	9.43
  Intermittent Streams	304.9	189.5	0.056	0.090	14.16	56.60
  Canals	1.9	1.1	0.000	0.001	40.27	66.04
  1° roads	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	30.84	16.98
  2° roads	105.6	65.6	0.019	0.031	41.12	28.30
  3° roads	50.6	31.4	0.009	0.015	10.23	9.43
  4° roads	2269.6	1410.5	0.415	0.668	4.50	7.55
  Total Roads	2425.7	1507.6	0.444	0.714	4.45	7.55
  Railroads	111.9	69.5	0.020	0.033	30.46	18.87
  Pipes and Powerlines	57.7	35.9	0.011	0.017	25.11	20.75

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 10.03% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 15.02, % in Region = 69.81]

  VI. Other sites

  • EPA- Surf Your Watershed - Index of Watershed Indicators
  • USGS- Science in Your Watershed - Selected Realtime Streamflow Stations
  • CTIC- Known Your Watershed

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  1999 SEPT 4, Last updated on 2003 JAN 23
  
  D.L. Gustafson, dlg@rapid.msu.montana.edu