Upper Cedar -- Cataloging Unit 07080201

• Iowa Accounting Unit 070802
  
• 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 56.9% Iowa, 43.1% Minnesota.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 4457.8 km² ( 1721.9 mi² ) [% in USA = 71.67, % in Region = 71.76]
  The area from the USGS is 1730 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 535)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 1780878 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 360.4 m ( 1182.4 ft ) [% in USA = 46.33, % in Region = 78.63]
  The elevation standard deviation is 33.1 m ( 108.6 ft ) [% in USA = 24.87, % in Region = 57.25]
  The coefficient of variation is 9.2 %.
  The vertical relief is 178.0 m ( 584.0 ft ) [% in USA = 24.44, % in Region = 56.49]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	261.0	308.3	328.0	348.9	360.4	368.0	374.5	381.0	386.0	396.3	439.0
  feet	856.3	1011.5	1076.1	1144.7	1182.4	1207.3	1228.7	1250.0	1266.4	1300.2	1440.3

  

  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	111.4	69.2	0.025	0.040	22.88	6.11
  Intermittent Shoreline	6.2	3.8	0.001	0.002	58.60	58.02
  Perennial Streams	1209.0	751.4	0.271	0.436	52.25	53.44
  Intermittent Streams	1791.8	1113.6	0.402	0.647	57.98	57.25
  Canals	65.7	40.9	0.015	0.024	69.97	67.18
  1° roads	67.5	41.9	0.015	0.024	62.62	56.49
  2° roads	212.3	132.0	0.048	0.077	80.20	81.68
  3° roads	278.5	173.1	0.062	0.101	56.51	26.72
  4° roads	5969.5	3710.1	1.339	2.155	67.79	65.65
  Total Roads	6527.8	4057.1	1.464	2.356	66.32	63.36
  Railroads	400.0	248.6	0.090	0.144	83.37	66.41
  Pipes and Powerlines	170.6	106.0	0.038	0.062	59.55	73.28

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 57.66% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 58.17, % in Region = 77.86]

  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