Upper Kanawha -- Cataloging Unit 05050006

• 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 1360.1 km² ( 525.4 mi² ) [% in USA = 7.48, % in Region = 5.83]
  The area from the USGS is 522 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 1344)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 543655 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 431.3 m ( 1415.0 ft ) [% in USA = 52.53, % in Region = 83.33]
  The elevation standard deviation is 139.8 m ( 458.7 ft ) [% in USA = 62.81, % in Region = 89.17]
  The coefficient of variation is 32.4 %.
  The vertical relief is 740.0 m ( 2427.8 ft ) [% in USA = 60.97, % in Region = 87.50]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	174.0	259.8	305.0	337.8	381.5	422.9	454.5	492.3	568.2	631.6	914.0
  feet	570.9	852.4	1000.6	1108.3	1251.6	1387.5	1491.1	1615.1	1864.2	2072.2	2998.7

  

  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	188.4	117.1	0.139	0.223	68.17	73.33
  Intermittent Shoreline	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	26.95	63.33
  Perennial Streams	723.6	449.7	0.532	0.856	85.36	70.00
  Intermittent Streams	187.6	116.6	0.138	0.222	24.16	28.33
  Canals	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	35.62	45.00
  1° roads	106.2	66.0	0.078	0.126	95.55	95.00
  2° roads	76.5	47.6	0.056	0.091	87.49	70.00
  3° roads	92.8	57.7	0.068	0.110	59.73	5.83
  4° roads	1644.5	1022.0	1.209	1.945	55.00	25.00
  Total Roads	1920.0	1193.3	1.412	2.271	62.34	14.17
  Railroads	329.1	204.5	0.242	0.389	99.01	98.33
  Pipes and Powerlines	225.4	140.1	0.166	0.267	99.48	96.67

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 17.06% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 21.89, % in Region = 28.33]

  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