Turkey -- Cataloging Unit 07060004

• Upper Mississippi-Maquoketa-Plum Subregion 0706
  
• Upper Mississippi Region 07 (There are 131 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 100.0% Iowa.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 4399.4 km² ( 1699.3 mi² ) [% in USA = 70.77, % in Region = 69.47]
  The area from the USGS is 1690 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 616)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 1756864 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 333.2 m ( 1093.2 ft ) [% in USA = 42.78, % in Region = 63.36]
  The elevation standard deviation is 41.8 m ( 137.1 ft ) [% in USA = 33.21, % in Region = 77.10]
  The coefficient of variation is 12.5 %.
  The vertical relief is 240.8 m ( 790.0 ft ) [% in USA = 34.96, % in Region = 82.44]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	186.2	273.0	302.1	319.7	334.6	339.3	350.0	355.5	366.0	381.0	427.0
  feet	610.9	895.7	991.1	1048.9	1097.8	1113.2	1148.3	1166.3	1200.8	1250.0	1400.9

  

  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	38.4	23.9	0.009	0.014	11.32	0.76
  Intermittent Shoreline	0.7	0.5	0.000	0.000	33.92	27.48
  Perennial Streams	1446.5	899.0	0.329	0.529	61.30	80.15
  Intermittent Streams	2597.0	1614.0	0.590	0.950	79.11	88.55
  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	147.7	91.8	0.034	0.054	62.43	55.73
  3° roads	319.1	198.4	0.073	0.117	61.68	37.40
  4° roads	5070.5	3151.3	1.153	1.854	49.27	24.43
  Total Roads	5537.4	3441.5	1.259	2.025	47.84	22.14
  Railroads	105.5	65.6	0.024	0.039	33.40	6.87
  Pipes and Powerlines	70.4	43.8	0.016	0.026	32.59	22.90

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 63.63% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 64.38, % in Region = 93.89]

  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