Root -- Cataloging Unit 07040008

• Upper Mississippi-Black-Root Subregion 0704
  
• Upper Mississippi Region 07 (There are 131 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 100.0% Minnesota, 0.0% Iowa.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 4368.2 km² ( 1687.3 mi² ) [% in USA = 70.11, % in Region = 67.18]
  The area from the USGS is 1670 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 563)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 1744248 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 356.1 m ( 1168.3 ft ) [% in USA = 45.81, % in Region = 76.34]
  The elevation standard deviation is 50.1 m ( 164.4 ft ) [% in USA = 38.89, % in Region = 89.31]
  The coefficient of variation is 14.1 %.
  The vertical relief is 251.0 m ( 823.5 ft ) [% in USA = 36.52, % in Region = 87.02]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	192.0	285.4	318.2	335.5	353.0	366.0	378.8	392.3	398.1	411.0	443.0
  feet	629.9	936.3	1044.0	1100.7	1158.1	1200.8	1242.8	1287.1	1306.1	1348.4	1453.4

  

  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	220.2	136.9	0.050	0.081	36.29	19.08
  Intermittent Shoreline	0.6	0.4	0.000	0.000	32.12	25.95
  Perennial Streams	1272.7	791.0	0.291	0.469	55.42	60.31
  Intermittent Streams	2400.8	1492.1	0.550	0.884	75.27	83.21
  Canals	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	35.62	23.66
  1° roads	108.0	67.1	0.025	0.040	74.94	70.23
  2° roads	115.3	71.7	0.026	0.042	51.63	36.64
  3° roads	369.8	229.8	0.085	0.136	66.98	53.44
  4° roads	4869.3	3026.3	1.115	1.794	46.42	20.61
  Total Roads	5462.4	3394.9	1.251	2.012	47.13	19.85
  Railroads	18.0	11.2	0.004	0.007	16.44	0.76
  Pipes and Powerlines	60.7	37.7	0.014	0.022	29.61	18.32

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 61.66% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 62.39, % in Region = 90.08]

  VI. Other sites

  • EPA- Surf Your Watershed - Index of Watershed Indicators
  • USGS- Science in Your Watershed - Selected Realtime Streamflow Stations
  • CTIC- Known Your Watershed

  ---

  1999 SEPT 4, Last updated on 2003 JAN 23
  
  D.L. Gustafson, dlg@rapid.msu.montana.edu