Watts Bar Lake -- Cataloging Unit 06010201

• Upper Tennessee Accounting Unit 060102
  
• 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 3504.9 km² ( 1353.8 mi² ) [% in USA = 56.18, % in Region = 65.62]
  The area from the USGS is 1340 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 4514)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 1399857 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 385.5 m ( 1264.7 ft ) [% in USA = 48.79, % in Region = 46.88]
  The elevation standard deviation is 219.6 m ( 720.5 ft ) [% in USA = 73.95, % in Region = 75.00]
  The coefficient of variation is 57.0 %.
  The vertical relief is 1654.5 m ( 5428.1 ft ) [% in USA = 80.29, % in Region = 93.75]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	208.0	244.0	264.8	274.0	288.4	303.7	313.4	354.3	481.1	602.8	1862.5
  feet	682.4	800.5	868.8	898.9	946.2	996.4	1028.2	1162.4	1578.4	1977.7	6110.5

  

  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	1217.9	756.9	0.347	0.559	92.61	93.75
  Intermittent Shoreline	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	27.57	68.75
  Perennial Streams	2898.8	1801.6	0.827	1.331	98.72	43.75
  Intermittent Streams	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	1.75	21.88
  Canals	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	35.62	68.75
  1° roads	251.0	156.0	0.072	0.115	94.50	96.88
  2° roads	339.1	210.8	0.097	0.156	98.72	96.88
  3° roads	336.0	208.8	0.096	0.154	71.48	40.62
  4° roads	7273.8	4520.7	2.075	3.339	93.70	100.00
  Total Roads	8199.9	5096.2	2.340	3.764	93.56	100.00
  Railroads	348.8	216.8	0.100	0.160	87.07	87.50
  Pipes and Powerlines	568.6	353.4	0.162	0.261	99.38	90.62

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 0.00% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 1.18, % in Region = 15.62]

  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