West Fork Cedar -- Cataloging Unit 07080204

• 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 100.0% Iowa.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 2268.7 km² ( 876.3 mi² ) [% in USA = 27.48, % in Region = 15.27]
  The area from the USGS is 850 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 194)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 906110 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 343.1 m ( 1125.6 ft ) [% in USA = 43.82, % in Region = 67.18]
  The elevation standard deviation is 34.4 m ( 112.9 ft ) [% in USA = 26.10, % in Region = 59.54]
  The coefficient of variation is 10.0 %.
  The vertical relief is 143.7 m ( 471.5 ft ) [% in USA = 17.05, % in Region = 32.06]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	261.0	294.9	310.3	320.0	333.0	343.8	358.9	370.2	381.0	385.0	404.7
  feet	856.3	967.5	1018.0	1049.9	1092.5	1127.9	1177.5	1214.6	1250.0	1263.1	1327.7

  

  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	29.8	18.5	0.013	0.021	15.25	3.05
  Intermittent Shoreline	2.3	1.5	0.001	0.002	54.71	52.67
  Perennial Streams	667.8	415.1	0.294	0.474	55.99	61.83
  Intermittent Streams	841.0	522.7	0.371	0.596	54.05	48.85
  Canals	13.2	8.2	0.006	0.009	59.88	51.15
  1° roads	53.5	33.2	0.024	0.038	73.71	67.18
  2° roads	49.0	30.5	0.022	0.035	44.43	28.24
  3° roads	131.7	81.8	0.058	0.093	53.34	18.32
  4° roads	2732.1	1698.0	1.204	1.938	54.62	36.64
  Total Roads	2966.3	1843.6	1.308	2.104	51.78	29.77
  Railroads	209.7	130.3	0.092	0.149	84.46	67.94
  Pipes and Powerlines	61.0	37.9	0.027	0.043	47.09	44.27

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 54.73% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 55.33, % in Region = 70.23]

  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