Maquoketa -- Cataloging Unit 07060006

• 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 4864.1 km² ( 1878.8 mi² ) [% in USA = 76.27, % in Region = 75.57]
  The area from the USGS is 1870 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 683)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 1942701 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 283.6 m ( 930.4 ft ) [% in USA = 36.95, % in Region = 44.27]
  The elevation standard deviation is 40.6 m ( 133.2 ft ) [% in USA = 32.02, % in Region = 75.57]
  The coefficient of variation is 14.3 %.
  The vertical relief is 203.0 m ( 666.0 ft ) [% in USA = 29.28, % in Region = 65.65]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	178.0	227.3	244.0	259.0	275.0	290.0	301.6	307.4	320.0	335.0	381.0
  feet	584.0	745.7	800.5	849.7	902.2	951.4	989.5	1008.5	1049.9	1099.1	1250.0

  

  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	216.6	134.6	0.045	0.072	33.54	16.03
  Intermittent Shoreline	1.6	1.0	0.000	0.001	39.51	32.82
  Perennial Streams	1769.6	1099.8	0.364	0.585	66.08	92.37
  Intermittent Streams	3010.0	1870.7	0.619	0.996	82.14	93.13
  Canals	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	35.62	23.66
  1° roads	30.7	19.1	0.006	0.010	50.17	35.11
  2° roads	169.0	105.0	0.035	0.056	64.19	58.78
  3° roads	427.9	265.9	0.088	0.142	68.74	60.31
  4° roads	5681.8	3531.3	1.168	1.879	50.92	28.24
  Total Roads	6309.4	3921.3	1.297	2.087	50.88	27.48
  Railroads	145.1	90.2	0.030	0.048	39.55	11.45
  Pipes and Powerlines	91.3	56.8	0.019	0.030	36.85	29.77

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 60.26% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 60.82, % in Region = 84.73]

  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