Clearwater-Elk -- Cataloging Unit 07010203

• Upper Mississippi-Crow-Rum Accounting Unit 070102
  
• Mississippi Headwaters Subregion 0701
  
• Upper Mississippi Region 07 (There are 131 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 100.0% Minnesota.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 2802.6 km² ( 1082.5 mi² ) [% in USA = 42.44, % in Region = 32.82]
  The area from the USGS is 1100 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 481)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 1119354 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 316.0 m ( 1036.7 ft ) [% in USA = 40.83, % in Region = 56.49]
  The elevation standard deviation is 24.3 m ( 79.7 ft ) [% in USA = 15.30, % in Region = 29.01]
  The coefficient of variation is 7.7 %.
  The vertical relief is 139.9 m ( 459.0 ft ) [% in USA = 16.34, % in Region = 29.01]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	259.0	290.0	296.5	301.8	304.6	307.8	319.0	323.0	335.6	351.3	398.9
  feet	849.7	951.4	972.8	990.1	999.3	1009.8	1046.6	1059.7	1101.0	1152.5	1308.7

  

  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	897.0	557.5	0.320	0.515	91.57	84.73
  Intermittent Shoreline	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	26.95	18.32
  Perennial Streams	625.2	388.6	0.223	0.359	43.87	22.14
  Intermittent Streams	615.3	382.4	0.220	0.353	34.11	25.19
  Canals	56.6	35.2	0.020	0.032	73.71	72.52
  1° roads	87.3	54.2	0.031	0.050	80.77	79.39
  2° roads	89.8	55.8	0.032	0.052	60.40	51.91
  3° roads	255.7	158.9	0.091	0.147	69.97	62.60
  4° roads	4158.5	2584.5	1.484	2.387	77.83	87.02
  Total Roads	4591.2	2853.5	1.638	2.636	77.21	85.50
  Railroads	208.9	129.8	0.075	0.120	76.27	56.49
  Pipes and Powerlines	113.3	70.4	0.040	0.065	61.68	76.34

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 28.79% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 32.69, % in Region = 18.32]

  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