Upper Wapsipinicon -- Cataloging Unit 07080102

• Upper Mississippi-Skunk-Wapsipinicon Accounting Unit 070801
  
• Upper Mississippi-Iowa-Skunk-Wapsipinicon Subregion 0708
  
• Upper Mississippi Region 07 (There are 131 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 99.1% Iowa, 0.9% Minnesota.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 4041.7 km² ( 1561.2 mi² ) [% in USA = 65.32, % in Region = 60.31]
  The area from the USGS is 1550 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 496)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 1615329 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 323.1 m ( 1060.0 ft ) [% in USA = 41.45, % in Region = 58.02]
  The elevation standard deviation is 34.9 m ( 114.5 ft ) [% in USA = 26.62, % in Region = 61.07]
  The coefficient of variation is 10.8 %.
  The vertical relief is 234.3 m ( 768.7 ft ) [% in USA = 34.11, % in Region = 77.86]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	201.7	279.6	292.0	304.0	311.3	320.0	328.6	336.6	351.0	371.5	436.0
  feet	661.7	917.3	958.0	997.4	1021.3	1049.9	1078.1	1104.3	1151.6	1218.8	1430.4

  

  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	381.6	237.2	0.094	0.152	53.96	39.69
  Intermittent Shoreline	9.2	5.7	0.002	0.004	65.66	66.41
  Perennial Streams	1327.0	824.7	0.328	0.528	61.20	79.39
  Intermittent Streams	1993.6	1239.0	0.493	0.794	68.64	71.76
  Canals	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	35.62	23.66
  1° roads	26.3	16.4	0.007	0.010	50.40	35.88
  2° roads	78.2	48.6	0.019	0.031	41.17	23.66
  3° roads	252.8	157.1	0.063	0.101	56.56	27.48
  4° roads	5086.6	3161.3	1.259	2.025	59.73	52.67
  Total Roads	5443.9	3383.4	1.347	2.167	55.47	41.98
  Railroads	180.0	111.9	0.045	0.072	53.72	21.37
  Pipes and Powerlines	292.1	181.5	0.072	0.116	86.12	96.95

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 53.96% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 54.57, % in Region = 64.89]

  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