Lower Wapsipinicon -- Cataloging Unit 07080103

• 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 100.0% Iowa.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 2534.8 km² ( 979.1 mi² ) [% in USA = 35.01, % in Region = 24.43]
  The area from the USGS is 967 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 352)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 1012532 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 230.2 m ( 755.2 ft ) [% in USA = 28.71, % in Region = 30.53]
  The elevation standard deviation is 24.7 m ( 81.0 ft ) [% in USA = 15.59, % in Region = 30.53]
  The coefficient of variation is 10.7 %.
  The vertical relief is 147.0 m ( 482.3 ft ) [% in USA = 17.53, % in Region = 32.82]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	175.0	198.0	211.7	213.4	221.0	228.0	231.6	244.0	254.9	266.6	322.0
  feet	574.1	649.6	694.5	700.1	725.1	748.0	759.8	800.5	836.3	874.7	1056.4

  

  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	158.1	98.3	0.062	0.100	40.88	25.19
  Intermittent Shoreline	0.6	0.4	0.000	0.000	37.09	29.77
  Perennial Streams	810.7	503.9	0.320	0.515	60.02	73.28
  Intermittent Streams	1246.2	774.5	0.492	0.791	68.36	70.23
  Canals	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	35.62	23.66
  1° roads	49.2	30.6	0.019	0.031	69.07	61.83
  2° roads	95.9	59.6	0.038	0.061	68.26	64.89
  3° roads	101.7	63.2	0.040	0.065	39.13	3.82
  4° roads	3044.2	1892.0	1.201	1.932	54.33	35.88
  Total Roads	3291.0	2045.4	1.298	2.089	51.21	28.24
  Railroads	90.0	55.9	0.035	0.057	44.62	13.74
  Pipes and Powerlines	26.8	16.7	0.011	0.017	25.15	9.92

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 56.27% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 56.75, % in Region = 74.05]

  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