Upper Little Tennessee -- Cataloging Unit 06010202

• 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 93.5% North Carolina, 5.7% Georgia, 0.9% Tennessee.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 2170.8 km² ( 838.5 mi² ) [% in USA = 24.82, % in Region = 31.25]
  The area from the USGS is 839 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 2920)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 867323 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 901.7 m ( 2958.3 ft ) [% in USA = 70.30, % in Region = 93.75]
  The elevation standard deviation is 243.0 m ( 797.2 ft ) [% in USA = 76.46, % in Region = 81.25]
  The coefficient of variation is 26.9 %.
  The vertical relief is 1138.5 m ( 3735.2 ft ) [% in USA = 68.88, % in Region = 65.62]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	516.0	611.8	665.2	716.2	784.2	877.0	958.2	1048.5	1138.4	1242.6	1654.5
  feet	1692.9	2007.2	2182.4	2349.7	2572.8	2877.3	3143.7	3439.9	3734.9	4076.7	5428.1

  

  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	428.6	266.4	0.197	0.318	80.39	65.62
  Intermittent Shoreline	0.9	0.5	0.000	0.001	41.92	84.38
  Perennial Streams	1832.5	1138.9	0.844	1.358	98.96	50.00
  Intermittent Streams	81.3	50.5	0.037	0.060	11.70	68.75
  Canals	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	35.62	68.75
  1° roads	4.7	2.9	0.002	0.003	43.91	18.75
  2° roads	144.0	89.5	0.066	0.107	92.42	59.38
  3° roads	90.2	56.1	0.042	0.067	40.69	6.25
  4° roads	2647.1	1645.2	1.219	1.962	55.66	25.00
  Total Roads	2886.0	1793.7	1.329	2.139	54.10	21.88
  Railroads	47.5	29.5	0.022	0.035	31.64	12.50
  Pipes and Powerlines	111.6	69.4	0.051	0.083	71.96	9.38

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 3.51% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 9.14, % in Region = 65.62]

  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