Lake Michigan -- Cataloging Unit 04060200

• Northeastern Lake Michigan Subregion 0406
  
• Great Lakes Region 04 (There are 111 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is unknown.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 57668.4 km² ( 22275.4 mi² ) [% in USA = 99.91, % in Region = 98.20]
  The area from the USGS is 22300 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 1655)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 23035860 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 176.5 m ( 579.1 ft ) [% in USA = 22.17, % in Region = 8.11]
  The elevation standard deviation is 4.9 m ( 16.1 ft ) [% in USA = 2.32, % in Region = 2.70]
  The coefficient of variation is 2.8 %.
  The vertical relief is 251.3 m ( 824.5 ft ) [% in USA = 36.62, % in Region = 60.36]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	174.2	176.0	176.0	176.0	176.0	176.0	176.0	176.0	177.0	177.0	425.5
  feet	571.5	577.4	577.4	577.4	577.4	577.4	577.4	577.4	580.7	580.7	1396.0

  

  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	665.8	413.8	0.012	0.019	13.55	1.80
  Intermittent Shoreline	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	26.95	45.05
  Perennial Streams	5.4	3.4	0.000	0.000	2.23	0.90
  Intermittent Streams	13.7	8.5	0.000	0.000	1.99	5.41
  Canals	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	35.62	36.04
  1° roads	0.2	0.1	0.000	0.000	30.89	22.52
  2° roads	10.7	6.7	0.000	0.000	15.77	18.02
  3° roads	3.9	2.4	0.000	0.000	4.26	2.70
  4° roads	541.6	336.6	0.009	0.015	0.28	2.70
  Total Roads	556.5	345.8	0.010	0.016	0.24	1.80
  Railroads	7.7	4.8	0.000	0.000	13.17	2.70
  Pipes and Powerlines	2.6	1.6	0.000	0.000	8.86	8.11

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 2.00% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 7.11, % in Region = 12.61]

  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