Muskegon -- Cataloging Unit 04060102

• Northeastern Lake Michigan Accounting Unit 040601
  
• Northeastern Lake Michigan Subregion 0406
  
• 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 6944.2 km² ( 2682.3 mi² ) [% in USA = 91.71, % in Region = 91.89]
  The area from the USGS is 2680 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 1494)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 2773239 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 325.5 m ( 1067.9 ft ) [% in USA = 41.73, % in Region = 81.98]
  The elevation standard deviation is 58.7 m ( 192.6 ft ) [% in USA = 43.30, % in Region = 67.57]
  The coefficient of variation is 18.0 %.
  The vertical relief is 346.1 m ( 1135.5 ft ) [% in USA = 44.24, % in Region = 73.87]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	177.0	232.5	274.0	301.5	323.0	341.1	350.0	357.4	368.3	393.9	523.1
  feet	580.7	762.8	898.9	989.2	1059.7	1119.1	1148.3	1172.6	1208.3	1292.3	1716.2

  

  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	1542.8	958.9	0.222	0.357	83.33	79.28
  Intermittent Shoreline	16.5	10.3	0.002	0.004	66.46	93.69
  Perennial Streams	1999.9	1242.9	0.288	0.463	54.71	36.04
  Intermittent Streams	821.2	510.4	0.118	0.190	21.55	42.34
  Canals	4.2	2.6	0.001	0.001	42.54	44.14
  1° roads	262.3	163.0	0.038	0.061	84.84	67.57
  2° roads	77.8	48.4	0.011	0.018	29.09	36.94
  3° roads	417.7	259.6	0.060	0.097	55.05	37.84
  4° roads	11409.4	7091.0	1.643	2.644	84.56	70.27
  Total Roads	12167.2	7562.0	1.752	2.819	82.80	65.77
  Railroads	331.3	205.9	0.048	0.077	56.89	27.03
  Pipes and Powerlines	82.3	51.2	0.012	0.019	27.19	24.32

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 19.12% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 23.35, % in Region = 45.05]

  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