Grant-Little Maquoketa -- Cataloging Unit 07060003

• Upper Mississippi-Maquoketa-Plum Subregion 0706
  
• Upper Mississippi Region 07 (There are 131 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 71.3% Wisconsin, 28.7% Iowa.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 2886.7 km² ( 1115.0 mi² ) [% in USA = 44.53, % in Region = 36.64]
  The area from the USGS is 1110 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 623)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 1153363 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 282.5 m ( 926.8 ft ) [% in USA = 36.76, % in Region = 42.75]
  The elevation standard deviation is 44.0 m ( 144.4 ft ) [% in USA = 35.15, % in Region = 81.68]
  The coefficient of variation is 15.6 %.
  The vertical relief is 241.9 m ( 793.6 ft ) [% in USA = 35.15, % in Region = 83.21]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	183.0	213.1	247.3	265.3	277.0	289.6	301.0	307.8	320.0	335.0	424.9
  feet	600.4	699.1	811.3	870.4	908.8	950.1	987.5	1009.8	1049.9	1099.1	1394.0

  

  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	566.4	352.0	0.196	0.316	80.06	67.94
  Intermittent Shoreline	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	26.95	18.32
  Perennial Streams	1075.5	668.4	0.373	0.599	66.98	93.13
  Intermittent Streams	1534.7	953.8	0.532	0.855	73.14	77.10
  Canals	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	35.62	23.66
  1° roads	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	30.84	12.98
  2° roads	177.6	110.4	0.062	0.099	90.29	93.89
  3° roads	168.8	104.9	0.058	0.094	53.48	20.61
  4° roads	3432.5	2133.3	1.189	1.913	52.82	32.06
  Total Roads	3778.9	2348.6	1.309	2.106	51.87	30.53
  Railroads	240.7	149.6	0.083	0.134	80.53	64.12
  Pipes and Powerlines	79.7	49.5	0.028	0.044	48.08	45.80

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 48.31% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 50.21, % in Region = 51.91]

  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