Boone -- Cataloging Unit 07100005

• Des Moines Subregion 0710
  
• 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 2361.4 km² ( 912.1 mi² ) [% in USA = 29.75, % in Region = 19.85]
  The area from the USGS is 910 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 239)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 943053 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 352.5 m ( 1156.5 ft ) [% in USA = 45.48, % in Region = 74.05]
  The elevation standard deviation is 14.5 m ( 47.6 ft ) [% in USA = 7.11, % in Region = 3.82]
  The coefficient of variation is 4.1 %.
  The vertical relief is 118.1 m ( 387.5 ft ) [% in USA = 11.75, % in Region = 12.98]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	283.9	335.1	342.4	345.0	350.0	351.0	354.5	359.0	365.0	371.0	402.0
  feet	931.4	1099.4	1123.3	1131.9	1148.3	1151.6	1163.0	1177.8	1197.5	1217.2	1318.9

  

  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	40.5	25.2	0.017	0.028	17.81	4.58
  Intermittent Shoreline	4.3	2.7	0.002	0.003	62.20	62.60
  Perennial Streams	648.0	402.7	0.274	0.441	52.96	54.96
  Intermittent Streams	371.4	230.9	0.157	0.253	26.48	16.79
  Canals	190.7	118.5	0.081	0.130	90.62	93.13
  1° roads	18.9	11.8	0.008	0.013	52.30	38.17
  2° roads	23.2	14.4	0.010	0.016	27.43	9.16
  3° roads	191.3	118.9	0.081	0.130	65.56	50.38
  4° roads	2967.1	1844.0	1.256	2.022	59.45	51.91
  Total Roads	3200.6	1989.2	1.355	2.181	56.42	45.80
  Railroads	218.4	135.7	0.092	0.149	84.56	68.70
  Pipes and Powerlines	29.3	18.2	0.012	0.020	27.76	14.50

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 35.31% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 38.56, % in Region = 28.24]

  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