Tradewater -- Cataloging Unit 05140205

• Lower Ohio Accounting Unit 051402
  
• Lower Ohio Subregion 0514
  
• Ohio Region 05 (There are 120 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 100.0% Kentucky.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 2459.6 km² ( 950.1 mi² ) [% in USA = 32.59, % in Region = 33.33]
  The area from the USGS is 936 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 1003)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 981991 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 142.9 m ( 468.8 ft ) [% in USA = 19.42, % in Region = 6.67]
  The elevation standard deviation is 23.9 m ( 78.4 ft ) [% in USA = 15.11, % in Region = 10.00]
  The coefficient of variation is 16.7 %.
  The vertical relief is 139.4 m ( 457.3 ft ) [% in USA = 16.15, % in Region = 10.83]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	104.0	119.0	121.7	122.0	127.0	140.8	150.1	152.0	158.0	181.8	243.4
  feet	341.2	390.4	399.3	400.3	416.7	461.9	492.4	498.7	518.4	596.4	798.5

  

  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	180.6	112.3	0.073	0.118	45.90	26.67
  Intermittent Shoreline	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	26.95	63.33
  Perennial Streams	1993.3	1238.8	0.810	1.304	98.48	99.17
  Intermittent Streams	500.9	311.3	0.204	0.328	32.26	45.83
  Canals	194.6	121.0	0.079	0.127	90.15	96.67
  1° roads	35.4	22.0	0.014	0.023	61.82	28.33
  2° roads	126.9	78.8	0.052	0.083	83.75	58.33
  3° roads	738.0	458.7	0.300	0.483	98.58	91.67
  4° roads	2328.8	1447.3	0.947	1.523	32.31	4.17
  Total Roads	3229.0	2006.9	1.313	2.112	52.39	9.17
  Railroads	239.4	148.8	0.097	0.157	86.12	50.83
  Pipes and Powerlines	250.0	155.4	0.102	0.164	94.84	75.83

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 18.73% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 23.02, % in Region = 30.83]

  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