Watauga -- Cataloging Unit 06010103

• French Broad-Holston Accounting Unit 060101
  
• Upper Tennessee Subregion 0601
  
• Tennessee Region 06 (There are 32 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 78.3% Tennessee, 21.7% North Carolina.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 2282.0 km² ( 881.4 mi² ) [% in USA = 27.81, % in Region = 37.50]
  The area from the USGS is 870 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 3669)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 911006 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 834.9 m ( 2739.1 ft ) [% in USA = 67.93, % in Region = 90.62]
  The elevation standard deviation is 244.3 m ( 801.5 ft ) [% in USA = 76.60, % in Region = 84.38]
  The coefficient of variation is 29.3 %.
  The vertical relief is 1426.9 m ( 4681.4 ft ) [% in USA = 75.23, % in Region = 78.12]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	396.0	502.1	571.9	676.5	764.8	845.3	911.6	976.6	1055.5	1147.7	1822.9
  feet	1299.2	1647.3	1876.3	2219.5	2509.2	2773.3	2990.8	3204.0	3462.9	3765.4	5980.6

  

  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	330.0	205.1	0.145	0.233	70.39	46.88
  Intermittent Shoreline	2.8	1.7	0.001	0.002	56.80	90.62
  Perennial Streams	2273.9	1413.3	0.996	1.603	99.72	81.25
  Intermittent Streams	44.1	27.4	0.019	0.031	8.81	62.50
  Canals	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	35.62	68.75
  1° roads	69.6	43.3	0.031	0.049	80.10	75.00
  2° roads	206.7	128.5	0.091	0.146	98.15	90.62
  3° roads	356.7	221.7	0.156	0.252	86.26	90.62
  4° roads	4029.6	2504.4	1.766	2.841	88.63	87.50
  Total Roads	4662.7	2897.9	2.043	3.288	89.96	90.62
  Railroads	96.1	59.7	0.042	0.068	51.40	28.12
  Pipes and Powerlines	206.1	128.1	0.090	0.145	91.85	34.38

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 1.77% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 6.58, % in Region = 59.38]

  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