Manistique -- Cataloging Unit 04060106

• 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 3768.7 km² ( 1455.7 mi² ) [% in USA = 61.39, % in Region = 75.68]
  The area from the USGS is 1480 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 785)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 1505111 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 236.1 m ( 774.6 ft ) [% in USA = 29.32, % in Region = 34.23]
  The elevation standard deviation is 26.5 m ( 86.9 ft ) [% in USA = 17.91, % in Region = 34.23]
  The coefficient of variation is 11.2 %.
  The vertical relief is 132.9 m ( 436.0 ft ) [% in USA = 15.16, % in Region = 25.23]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	176.0	204.0	212.9	219.0	226.0	230.2	243.8	252.4	261.0	274.0	308.9
  feet	577.4	669.3	698.5	718.5	741.5	755.2	799.9	828.1	856.3	898.9	1013.4

  

  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	1120.0	696.1	0.297	0.478	90.34	90.99
  Intermittent Shoreline	2.9	1.8	0.001	0.001	50.59	75.68
  Perennial Streams	1441.2	895.7	0.382	0.615	68.26	59.46
  Intermittent Streams	79.2	49.2	0.021	0.034	9.19	18.02
  Canals	76.5	47.5	0.020	0.033	73.80	73.87
  1° roads	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	30.84	21.62
  2° roads	25.4	15.8	0.007	0.011	23.21	33.33
  3° roads	196.7	122.2	0.052	0.084	48.27	29.73
  4° roads	3215.4	1998.4	0.853	1.373	26.01	17.12
  Total Roads	3437.5	2136.4	0.912	1.468	25.39	14.41
  Railroads	106.5	66.2	0.028	0.045	37.80	14.41
  Pipes and Powerlines	15.2	9.4	0.004	0.006	15.77	17.12

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 3.11% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 8.72, % in Region = 18.92]

  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