Lower Cedar -- Cataloging Unit 07080206

• 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 2832.9 km² ( 1094.3 mi² ) [% in USA = 43.20, % in Region = 34.35]
  The area from the USGS is 1060 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 487)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 1133698 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 233.8 m ( 767.1 ft ) [% in USA = 29.09, % in Region = 32.06]
  The elevation standard deviation is 26.4 m ( 86.6 ft ) [% in USA = 17.72, % in Region = 36.64]
  The coefficient of variation is 11.3 %.
  The vertical relief is 140.8 m ( 461.9 ft ) [% in USA = 16.58, % in Region = 30.53]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	166.0	199.9	213.0	218.0	227.9	229.2	242.6	245.9	259.0	274.0	306.8
  feet	544.6	655.8	698.8	715.2	747.7	752.0	795.9	806.7	849.7	898.9	1006.5

  

  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	382.7	237.9	0.135	0.217	67.12	54.20
  Intermittent Shoreline	1.5	1.0	0.001	0.001	45.57	41.22
  Perennial Streams	701.1	435.8	0.247	0.398	47.80	38.93
  Intermittent Streams	1307.0	812.3	0.461	0.742	64.80	67.18
  Canals	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	35.62	23.66
  1° roads	82.8	51.4	0.029	0.047	79.16	76.34
  2° roads	149.9	93.1	0.053	0.085	85.03	87.02
  3° roads	158.9	98.8	0.056	0.090	51.92	14.50
  4° roads	3898.2	2422.8	1.376	2.214	70.63	71.76
  Total Roads	4289.8	2666.1	1.514	2.436	69.59	71.76
  Railroads	153.4	95.3	0.054	0.087	62.29	32.06
  Pipes and Powerlines	67.0	41.7	0.024	0.038	43.15	39.69

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 54.70% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 55.28, % in Region = 69.47]

  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