Tuckasegee -- Cataloging Unit 06010203

• 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 98.6% North Carolina, 1.4% Tennessee.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 1904.1 km² ( 735.5 mi² ) [% in USA = 17.20, % in Region = 18.75]
  The area from the USGS is 731 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 2203)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 761648 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 1042.2 m ( 3419.2 ft ) [% in USA = 73.19, % in Region = 100.00]
  The elevation standard deviation is 289.4 m ( 949.5 ft ) [% in USA = 81.57, % in Region = 90.62]
  The coefficient of variation is 27.8 %.
  The vertical relief is 1597.9 m ( 5242.4 ft ) [% in USA = 78.83, % in Region = 90.62]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	408.8	659.7	751.5	855.3	950.8	1045.2	1121.9	1195.8	1285.9	1434.1	2006.7
  feet	1341.2	2164.3	2465.5	2806.1	3119.4	3429.1	3680.7	3923.2	4218.8	4705.0	6583.6

  

  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	177.2	110.1	0.093	0.150	53.29	28.12
  Intermittent Shoreline	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	26.95	65.62
  Perennial Streams	1702.2	1057.9	0.894	1.438	99.29	59.38
  Intermittent Streams	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	1.75	21.88
  Canals	0.9	0.5	0.000	0.001	41.21	75.00
  1° roads	7.2	4.5	0.004	0.006	46.52	25.00
  2° roads	151.5	94.2	0.080	0.128	96.45	71.88
  3° roads	76.1	47.3	0.040	0.064	39.03	3.12
  4° roads	2390.3	1485.6	1.255	2.020	59.21	31.25
  Total Roads	2625.1	1631.5	1.379	2.218	59.17	31.25
  Railroads	59.0	36.7	0.031	0.050	40.45	21.88
  Pipes and Powerlines	96.6	60.0	0.051	0.082	71.15	6.25

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 0.00% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 1.14, % in Region = 12.50]

  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