Little Calumet-Galien -- Cataloging Unit 04040001

• Southwestern Lake Michigan Subregion 0404
  
• Great Lakes Region 04 (There are 111 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 73.4% Indiana, 20.6% Michigan, 6.0% Illinois.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 1862.0 km² ( 719.2 mi² ) [% in USA = 15.59, % in Region = 27.93]
  The area from the USGS is 705 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 1603)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 743411 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 201.9 m ( 662.4 ft ) [% in USA = 24.49, % in Region = 17.12]
  The elevation standard deviation is 17.9 m ( 58.7 ft ) [% in USA = 9.00, % in Region = 16.22]
  The coefficient of variation is 8.9 %.
  The vertical relief is 96.9 m ( 317.9 ft ) [% in USA = 8.15, % in Region = 12.61]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	176.0	179.0	185.0	192.0	196.0	198.1	203.3	210.0	213.5	228.0	272.9
  feet	577.4	587.3	606.9	629.9	643.0	649.9	667.0	689.0	700.5	748.0	895.3

  

  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	354.3	220.2	0.190	0.306	79.35	63.96
  Intermittent Shoreline	0.4	0.3	0.000	0.000	36.81	58.56
  Perennial Streams	583.6	362.7	0.313	0.504	59.02	43.24
  Intermittent Streams	227.8	141.6	0.122	0.197	22.03	45.05
  Canals	138.6	86.1	0.074	0.120	89.39	89.19
  1° roads	319.4	198.5	0.172	0.276	98.77	98.20
  2° roads	319.9	198.8	0.172	0.276	99.86	100.00
  3° roads	157.2	97.7	0.084	0.136	66.89	50.45
  4° roads	5523.5	3432.9	2.966	4.773	97.49	94.59
  Total Roads	6320.0	3927.9	3.394	5.461	97.58	95.50
  Railroads	1109.1	689.3	0.596	0.958	99.95	100.00
  Pipes and Powerlines	96.4	59.9	0.052	0.083	72.05	81.98

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 19.57% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 24.02, % in Region = 47.75]

  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