Lower Tennessee -- Cataloging Unit 06040006

• Lower Tennessee Subregion 0604
  
• Tennessee Region 06 (There are 32 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 97.2% Kentucky, 2.8% Tennessee.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 1812.6 km² ( 700.2 mi² ) [% in USA = 14.40, % in Region = 15.62]
  The area from the USGS is 689 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 809)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 723428 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 137.3 m ( 450.5 ft ) [% in USA = 18.85, % in Region = 3.12]
  The elevation standard deviation is 22.7 m ( 74.5 ft ) [% in USA = 13.78, % in Region = 3.12]
  The coefficient of variation is 16.5 %.
  The vertical relief is 98.0 m ( 321.5 ft ) [% in USA = 8.34, % in Region = 3.12]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	91.0	107.0	116.9	122.0	123.7	136.6	150.3	152.0	159.5	168.0	189.0
  feet	298.6	351.0	383.5	400.3	405.8	448.2	493.1	498.7	523.3	551.2	620.1

  

  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	132.7	82.5	0.073	0.118	45.81	21.88
  Intermittent Shoreline	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	26.95	65.62
  Perennial Streams	1277.8	794.1	0.705	1.134	96.97	25.00
  Intermittent Streams	600.0	372.9	0.331	0.533	49.36	96.88
  Canals	14.7	9.2	0.008	0.013	63.67	93.75
  1° roads	94.5	58.7	0.052	0.084	90.29	84.38
  2° roads	161.1	100.1	0.089	0.143	97.77	87.50
  3° roads	679.2	422.1	0.375	0.603	99.72	100.00
  4° roads	2293.7	1425.5	1.265	2.036	60.87	34.38
  Total Roads	3228.4	2006.5	1.781	2.866	84.04	75.00
  Railroads	193.0	120.0	0.106	0.171	89.20	93.75
  Pipes and Powerlines	378.6	235.3	0.209	0.336	99.91	96.88

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 29.85% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 33.63, % in Region = 96.88]

  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