Oconto -- Cataloging Unit 04030104

• Northwestern Lake Michigan Accounting Unit 040301
  
• Northwestern Lake Michigan Subregion 0403
  
• Great Lakes Region 04 (There are 111 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 100.0% Wisconsin.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 2704.0 km² ( 1044.5 mi² ) [% in USA = 39.70, % in Region = 57.66]
  The area from the USGS is 1040 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 570)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 1079746 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 295.6 m ( 969.8 ft ) [% in USA = 38.32, % in Region = 73.87]
  The elevation standard deviation is 84.8 m ( 278.2 ft ) [% in USA = 51.82, % in Region = 79.28]
  The coefficient of variation is 28.7 %.
  The vertical relief is 372.0 m ( 1220.5 ft ) [% in USA = 46.14, % in Region = 75.68]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	176.0	198.1	227.5	250.6	259.0	268.0	279.0	320.0	380.1	426.0	548.0
  feet	577.4	649.9	746.4	822.2	849.7	879.3	915.3	1049.9	1247.0	1397.6	1797.9

  

  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	664.7	413.1	0.246	0.396	85.55	82.88
  Intermittent Shoreline	0.3	0.2	0.000	0.000	31.17	49.55
  Perennial Streams	878.2	545.8	0.325	0.523	60.59	45.05
  Intermittent Streams	528.1	328.2	0.195	0.314	31.03	63.06
  Canals	42.7	26.5	0.016	0.025	70.63	71.17
  1° roads	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	30.84	21.62
  2° roads	46.9	29.1	0.017	0.028	38.61	45.95
  3° roads	181.5	112.8	0.067	0.108	59.21	39.64
  4° roads	3577.9	2223.7	1.323	2.129	66.18	46.85
  Total Roads	3806.3	2365.7	1.408	2.265	62.01	41.44
  Railroads	142.2	88.4	0.053	0.085	61.01	31.53
  Pipes and Powerlines	121.9	75.8	0.045	0.073	66.37	72.07

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 25.51% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 29.65, % in Region = 61.26]

  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