Lower New -- Cataloging Unit 05050004

• Kanawha Subregion 0505
  
• Ohio Region 05 (There are 120 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 100.0% West Virginia.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 1800.4 km² ( 695.4 mi² ) [% in USA = 14.07, % in Region = 10.83]
  The area from the USGS is 692 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 1312)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 718816 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 687.0 m ( 2253.9 ft ) [% in USA = 63.62, % in Region = 95.83]
  The elevation standard deviation is 156.6 m ( 513.8 ft ) [% in USA = 65.28, % in Region = 92.50]
  The coefficient of variation is 22.8 %.
  The vertical relief is 990.4 m ( 3249.3 ft ) [% in USA = 65.18, % in Region = 94.17]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	198.0	464.8	548.0	599.7	652.0	711.8	748.8	790.0	829.3	882.3	1188.4
  feet	649.6	1524.9	1797.9	1967.5	2139.1	2335.3	2456.7	2591.8	2720.8	2894.6	3898.9

  

  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	186.6	116.0	0.104	0.167	57.70	52.50
  Intermittent Shoreline	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	26.95	63.33
  Perennial Streams	937.6	582.7	0.521	0.838	84.27	67.50
  Intermittent Streams	323.4	201.0	0.180	0.289	29.04	38.33
  Canals	1.2	0.7	0.001	0.001	43.15	54.17
  1° roads	85.0	52.8	0.047	0.076	88.49	80.00
  2° roads	116.2	72.2	0.065	0.104	91.62	83.33
  3° roads	220.8	137.2	0.123	0.197	78.68	30.00
  4° roads	3016.4	1874.7	1.675	2.696	85.60	75.83
  Total Roads	3438.3	2136.9	1.910	3.073	87.16	75.83
  Railroads	296.3	184.2	0.165	0.265	96.12	86.67
  Pipes and Powerlines	100.4	62.4	0.056	0.090	75.65	31.67

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 22.34% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 26.86, % in Region = 35.83]

  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