Lower French Broad -- Cataloging Unit 06010107

• 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 100.0% Tennessee.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 2068.9 km² ( 799.1 mi² ) [% in USA = 21.79, % in Region = 28.12]
  The area from the USGS is 792 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 2359)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 826249 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 461.6 m ( 1514.4 ft ) [% in USA = 54.29, % in Region = 56.25]
  The elevation standard deviation is 279.9 m ( 918.3 ft ) [% in USA = 80.48, % in Region = 87.50]
  The coefficient of variation is 60.6 %.
  The vertical relief is 1725.0 m ( 5659.4 ft ) [% in USA = 81.76, % in Region = 100.00]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	256.0	298.2	305.0	319.0	335.0	354.6	382.3	429.9	518.8	764.8	1981.0
  feet	839.9	978.3	1000.6	1046.6	1099.1	1163.4	1254.2	1410.4	1702.1	2509.2	6499.3

  

  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	781.2	485.5	0.378	0.608	93.56	100.00
  Intermittent Shoreline	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	26.95	65.62
  Perennial Streams	1935.5	1202.9	0.936	1.505	99.53	68.75
  Intermittent Streams	0.3	0.2	0.000	0.000	1.94	25.00
  Canals	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	35.62	68.75
  1° roads	63.8	39.6	0.031	0.050	80.44	78.12
  2° roads	211.4	131.4	0.102	0.164	98.86	100.00
  3° roads	189.1	117.5	0.091	0.147	70.11	34.38
  4° roads	3410.4	2119.5	1.648	2.652	84.89	78.12
  Total Roads	3874.5	2408.0	1.873	3.013	86.40	78.12
  Railroads	25.4	15.8	0.012	0.020	22.41	9.38
  Pipes and Powerlines	226.3	140.6	0.109	0.176	95.93	50.00

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 0.01% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 1.33, % in Region = 21.88]

  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