Tacoosh-Whitefish -- Cataloging Unit 04030111

• 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% Michigan.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 1573.3 km² ( 607.7 mi² ) [% in USA = 10.14, % in Region = 19.82]
  The area from the USGS is 656 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 221)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 627979 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 262.5 m ( 861.2 ft ) [% in USA = 33.92, % in Region = 58.56]
  The elevation standard deviation is 45.3 m ( 148.6 ft ) [% in USA = 36.05, % in Region = 58.56]
  The coefficient of variation is 17.3 %.
  The vertical relief is 205.0 m ( 672.6 ft ) [% in USA = 29.75, % in Region = 51.35]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	176.0	198.5	222.0	232.0	244.0	259.0	275.1	289.0	305.0	329.0	381.0
  feet	577.4	651.2	728.3	761.1	800.5	849.7	902.5	948.2	1000.6	1079.4	1250.0

  

  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	55.9	34.8	0.036	0.057	28.71	8.11
  Intermittent Shoreline	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	26.95	45.05
  Perennial Streams	533.3	331.4	0.339	0.545	63.00	49.55
  Intermittent Streams	70.4	43.8	0.045	0.072	12.70	27.03
  Canals	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	35.62	36.04
  1° roads	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	30.84	21.62
  2° roads	77.3	48.0	0.049	0.079	82.09	81.08
  3° roads	68.8	42.8	0.044	0.070	42.07	23.42
  4° roads	1589.9	988.1	1.011	1.626	37.00	25.23
  Total Roads	1736.0	1078.9	1.103	1.775	36.43	25.23
  Railroads	127.3	79.1	0.081	0.130	79.39	52.25
  Pipes and Powerlines	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	8.67	7.21

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 10.68% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 15.87, % in Region = 30.63]

  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