Guntersville Lake -- Cataloging Unit 06030001

• Middle Tennessee-Elk Subregion 0603
  
• Tennessee Region 06 (There are 32 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 82.8% Alabama, 16.7% Tennessee, 0.6% Georgia.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 5217.6 km² ( 2015.4 mi² ) [% in USA = 80.44, % in Region = 87.50]
  The area from the USGS is 1990 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 3782)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 2083282 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 336.3 m ( 1103.3 ft ) [% in USA = 43.15, % in Region = 43.75]
  The elevation standard deviation is 110.9 m ( 363.8 ft ) [% in USA = 58.12, % in Region = 46.88]
  The coefficient of variation is 33.0 %.
  The vertical relief is 471.0 m ( 1545.3 ft ) [% in USA = 52.06, % in Region = 37.50]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	169.0	187.9	209.5	254.6	306.8	335.0	366.0	401.1	432.4	487.0	640.0
  feet	554.5	616.5	687.3	835.3	1006.5	1099.1	1200.8	1315.9	1418.6	1597.7	2099.7

  

  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	1171.7	728.2	0.225	0.361	83.47	78.12
  Intermittent Shoreline	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	26.95	65.62
  Perennial Streams	3681.2	2287.9	0.706	1.135	97.02	28.12
  Intermittent Streams	475.6	295.6	0.091	0.147	18.14	71.88
  Canals	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	35.62	68.75
  1° roads	50.2	31.2	0.010	0.015	54.52	43.75
  2° roads	167.3	104.0	0.032	0.052	60.49	9.38
  3° roads	636.8	395.8	0.122	0.196	78.59	68.75
  4° roads	7126.1	4428.9	1.366	2.198	69.92	43.75
  Total Roads	7980.4	4959.8	1.529	2.461	70.82	40.62
  Railroads	223.4	138.8	0.043	0.069	52.16	31.25
  Pipes and Powerlines	752.5	467.7	0.144	0.232	98.91	87.50

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 8.93% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 14.21, % in Region = 75.00]

  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