Upper Des Moines -- Cataloging Unit 07100002

• Des Moines Subregion 0710
  
• Upper Mississippi Region 07 (There are 131 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 90.9% Iowa, 9.1% Minnesota.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 2826.7 km² ( 1091.9 mi² ) [% in USA = 43.11, % in Region = 33.59]
  The area from the USGS is 1100 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 243)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 1129061 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 388.6 m ( 1274.9 ft ) [% in USA = 49.03, % in Region = 87.79]
  The elevation standard deviation is 28.8 m ( 94.5 ft ) [% in USA = 20.89, % in Region = 47.33]
  The coefficient of variation is 7.4 %.
  The vertical relief is 154.2 m ( 505.9 ft ) [% in USA = 19.23, % in Region = 38.93]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	317.8	352.5	365.0	370.6	379.0	382.1	392.0	400.0	413.6	432.0	472.0
  feet	1042.6	1156.5	1197.5	1215.9	1243.4	1253.6	1286.1	1312.3	1356.9	1417.3	1548.5

  

  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	285.5	177.5	0.101	0.163	56.28	42.75
  Intermittent Shoreline	13.1	8.1	0.005	0.007	75.41	80.92
  Perennial Streams	563.6	350.3	0.199	0.321	39.89	13.74
  Intermittent Streams	498.8	310.0	0.176	0.284	28.71	19.08
  Canals	236.5	147.0	0.084	0.135	90.81	93.89
  1° roads	0.9	0.6	0.000	0.001	37.28	19.08
  2° roads	76.2	47.4	0.027	0.043	52.63	38.17
  3° roads	188.2	117.0	0.067	0.107	58.88	32.82
  4° roads	3479.5	2162.5	1.231	1.981	56.89	44.27
  Total Roads	3744.8	2327.4	1.325	2.132	53.67	37.40
  Railroads	244.4	151.9	0.086	0.139	82.24	64.89
  Pipes and Powerlines	32.8	20.4	0.012	0.019	26.67	12.98

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 37.61% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 40.41, % in Region = 32.82]

  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