Shetucket -- Cataloging Unit 01100002

• Connecticut Coastal Subregion 0110
  
• New England Region 01 (There are 53 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 98.2% Connecticut, 1.8% Massachusetts.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 1335.5 km² ( 515.9 mi² ) [% in USA = 7.20, % in Region = 20.75]
  The area from the USGS is 517 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 928)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 533963 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 170.9 m ( 560.7 ft ) [% in USA = 21.65, % in Region = 37.74]
  The elevation standard deviation is 62.9 m ( 206.4 ft ) [% in USA = 45.05, % in Region = 37.74]
  The coefficient of variation is 36.8 %.
  The vertical relief is 382.5 m ( 1254.9 ft ) [% in USA = 46.94, % in Region = 28.30]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	10.4	88.0	114.7	136.8	153.9	176.9	183.7	207.0	218.2	246.6	392.9
  feet	34.1	288.7	376.3	448.8	504.9	580.4	602.7	679.1	715.9	809.0	1289.0

  

  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	376.1	233.8	0.282	0.453	89.44	52.83
  Intermittent Shoreline	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	26.95	52.83
  Perennial Streams	842.0	523.3	0.630	1.014	93.51	88.68
  Intermittent Streams	39.4	24.5	0.030	0.047	10.52	43.40
  Canals	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	35.62	56.60
  1° roads	63.4	39.4	0.047	0.076	88.58	62.26
  2° roads	69.5	43.2	0.052	0.084	84.60	77.36
  3° roads	389.0	241.8	0.291	0.469	98.44	84.91
  4° roads	2201.5	1368.2	1.648	2.652	84.84	66.04
  Total Roads	2723.4	1692.6	2.039	3.281	89.86	69.81
  Railroads	114.6	71.2	0.086	0.138	81.76	75.47
  Pipes and Powerlines	33.1	20.6	0.025	0.040	44.67	47.17

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 3.13% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 8.76, % in Region = 43.40]

  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