East Fork Des Moines -- Cataloging Unit 07100003

• Des Moines Subregion 0710
  
• Upper Mississippi Region 07 (There are 131 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 83.9% Iowa, 16.1% Minnesota.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 3402.7 km² ( 1314.3 mi² ) [% in USA = 53.86, % in Region = 48.09]
  The area from the USGS is 1310 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 279)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 1358692 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 370.4 m ( 1215.2 ft ) [% in USA = 47.56, % in Region = 83.97]
  The elevation standard deviation is 20.3 m ( 66.6 ft ) [% in USA = 11.65, % in Region = 17.56]
  The coefficient of variation is 5.5 %.
  The vertical relief is 122.6 m ( 402.2 ft ) [% in USA = 12.88, % in Region = 17.56]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	320.0	346.5	351.0	354.8	364.0	368.8	378.0	381.9	386.0	396.3	442.6
  feet	1049.9	1136.8	1151.6	1164.0	1194.2	1210.0	1240.1	1252.9	1266.4	1300.2	1452.1

  

  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	120.3	74.7	0.035	0.057	28.66	9.92
  Intermittent Shoreline	3.1	1.9	0.001	0.001	52.96	51.15
  Perennial Streams	756.8	470.3	0.222	0.358	43.77	21.37
  Intermittent Streams	457.9	284.6	0.135	0.217	23.73	15.27
  Canals	244.2	151.7	0.072	0.115	88.87	90.08
  1° roads	24.7	15.3	0.007	0.012	51.49	37.40
  2° roads	91.3	56.7	0.027	0.043	52.39	37.40
  3° roads	208.1	129.3	0.061	0.098	55.52	22.90
  4° roads	4219.6	2622.5	1.240	1.995	57.75	47.33
  Total Roads	4543.6	2823.9	1.335	2.148	54.62	39.69
  Railroads	203.8	126.7	0.060	0.096	67.03	42.75
  Pipes and Powerlines	39.1	24.3	0.011	0.018	26.39	12.21

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 34.45% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 37.80, % in Region = 25.95]

  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