Middle Cedar -- Cataloging Unit 07080205

• 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 6250.8 km² ( 2414.5 mi² ) [% in USA = 88.39, % in Region = 94.66]
  The area from the USGS is 2410 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 913)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 2495660 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 288.9 m ( 947.8 ft ) [% in USA = 37.61, % in Region = 48.09]
  The elevation standard deviation is 29.1 m ( 95.5 ft ) [% in USA = 21.13, % in Region = 48.09]
  The coefficient of variation is 10.1 %.
  The vertical relief is 168.0 m ( 551.2 ft ) [% in USA = 22.03, % in Region = 49.62]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	216.0	253.3	262.7	274.0	279.5	289.0	291.8	304.0	313.1	325.2	384.0
  feet	708.7	831.0	861.9	898.9	917.0	948.2	957.3	997.4	1027.2	1066.9	1259.8

  

  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	528.1	328.2	0.084	0.136	49.88	33.59
  Intermittent Shoreline	15.0	9.3	0.002	0.004	66.70	68.70
  Perennial Streams	1667.6	1036.4	0.267	0.429	51.54	49.62
  Intermittent Streams	2584.1	1606.1	0.413	0.665	59.50	60.31
  Canals	3.0	1.8	0.000	0.001	41.35	30.53
  1° roads	186.1	115.6	0.030	0.048	79.49	77.86
  2° roads	335.9	208.8	0.054	0.086	85.55	90.08
  3° roads	387.4	240.8	0.062	0.100	56.04	25.19
  4° roads	8874.0	5515.3	1.420	2.284	73.38	79.39
  Total Roads	9783.5	6080.5	1.565	2.518	73.09	76.34
  Railroads	608.2	378.0	0.097	0.157	86.07	72.52
  Pipes and Powerlines	146.2	90.9	0.023	0.038	42.63	38.17

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 54.21% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 54.90, % in Region = 66.41]

  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