Upper Iowa -- Cataloging Unit 07060002

• Upper Mississippi-Maquoketa-Plum Subregion 0706
  
• Upper Mississippi Region 07 (There are 131 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 76.4% Iowa, 23.6% Minnesota.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 2622.1 km² ( 1012.8 mi² ) [% in USA = 37.23, % in Region = 26.72]
  The area from the USGS is 1010 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 364)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 1047147 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 351.0 m ( 1151.6 ft ) [% in USA = 45.05, % in Region = 71.76]
  The elevation standard deviation is 50.3 m ( 165.0 ft ) [% in USA = 38.99, % in Region = 90.84]
  The coefficient of variation is 14.3 %.
  The vertical relief is 253.0 m ( 830.0 ft ) [% in USA = 37.19, % in Region = 87.79]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	189.0	278.3	305.1	332.4	340.3	362.4	369.2	384.8	396.8	411.0	442.0
  feet	620.1	913.0	1001.0	1090.5	1116.5	1189.0	1211.3	1262.5	1301.8	1348.4	1450.1

  

  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	34.0	21.1	0.013	0.021	15.06	2.29
  Intermittent Shoreline	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	26.95	18.32
  Perennial Streams	704.5	437.8	0.269	0.432	51.97	51.15
  Intermittent Streams	1589.0	987.6	0.606	0.975	81.00	90.84
  Canals	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	35.62	23.66
  1° roads	0.5	0.3	0.000	0.000	35.58	15.27
  2° roads	74.3	46.2	0.028	0.046	54.33	41.22
  3° roads	166.3	103.3	0.063	0.102	56.99	29.01
  4° roads	3199.1	1988.3	1.220	1.963	55.71	38.93
  Total Roads	3440.2	2138.1	1.312	2.111	52.16	32.82
  Railroads	12.9	8.0	0.005	0.008	17.29	1.53
  Pipes and Powerlines	64.8	40.3	0.025	0.040	44.53	41.98

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 68.27% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 68.12, % in Region = 96.95]

  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