Lower Tennessee-Beech -- Cataloging Unit 06040001

• Lower Tennessee Subregion 0604
  
• Tennessee Region 06 (There are 32 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 98.0% Tennessee, 2.0% Mississippi.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 5428.4 km² ( 2096.8 mi² ) [% in USA = 82.38, % in Region = 93.75]
  The area from the USGS is 2080 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 4387)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 2166344 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 162.2 m ( 532.1 ft ) [% in USA = 20.99, % in Region = 9.38]
  The elevation standard deviation is 38.8 m ( 127.3 ft ) [% in USA = 30.65, % in Region = 9.38]
  The coefficient of variation is 23.9 %.
  The vertical relief is 214.0 m ( 702.1 ft ) [% in USA = 31.26, % in Region = 15.62]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	109.0	120.9	127.9	143.3	151.2	152.0	154.6	174.5	183.2	214.1	323.0
  feet	357.6	396.6	419.6	470.1	496.1	498.7	507.2	572.5	601.0	702.4	1059.7

  

  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	1114.4	692.6	0.205	0.330	81.24	68.75
  Intermittent Shoreline	4.9	3.0	0.001	0.001	52.87	87.50
  Perennial Streams	5505.1	3421.5	1.014	1.632	99.91	93.75
  Intermittent Streams	94.2	58.5	0.017	0.028	8.38	59.38
  Canals	74.1	46.0	0.014	0.022	69.30	96.88
  1° roads	70.6	43.9	0.013	0.021	59.31	46.88
  2° roads	132.6	82.4	0.024	0.039	48.13	6.25
  3° roads	826.3	513.6	0.152	0.245	85.27	84.38
  4° roads	6087.6	3783.5	1.121	1.804	46.94	12.50
  Total Roads	7117.2	4423.4	1.311	2.110	52.11	12.50
  Railroads	26.2	16.3	0.005	0.008	17.10	3.12
  Pipes and Powerlines	422.8	262.7	0.078	0.125	88.11	18.75

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 1.47% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 6.11, % in Region = 56.25]

  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