Upper Fox -- Cataloging Unit 07120006

• Upper Illinois Subregion 0712
  
• Upper Mississippi Region 07 (There are 131 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 61.8% Wisconsin, 38.2% Illinois.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 4043.0 km² ( 1561.7 mi² ) [% in USA = 65.42, % in Region = 61.83]
  The area from the USGS is 1570 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 1246)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 1614716 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 262.1 m ( 859.9 ft ) [% in USA = 33.82, % in Region = 37.40]
  The elevation standard deviation is 22.8 m ( 74.8 ft ) [% in USA = 13.88, % in Region = 25.19]
  The coefficient of variation is 8.7 %.
  The vertical relief is 128.6 m ( 421.9 ft ) [% in USA = 14.45, % in Region = 21.37]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	210.4	233.9	242.8	244.3	255.5	259.0	266.8	274.0	280.5	293.1	339.0
  feet	690.3	767.4	796.6	801.5	838.2	849.7	875.3	898.9	920.3	961.6	1112.2

  

  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	1493.7	928.3	0.369	0.594	93.23	87.79
  Intermittent Shoreline	7.4	4.6	0.002	0.003	62.25	63.36
  Perennial Streams	940.3	584.4	0.233	0.374	45.38	27.48
  Intermittent Streams	134.6	83.6	0.033	0.054	10.90	7.63
  Canals	22.5	14.0	0.006	0.009	59.55	49.62
  1° roads	215.9	134.2	0.053	0.086	90.76	94.66
  2° roads	142.3	88.4	0.035	0.057	64.80	61.07
  3° roads	832.1	517.2	0.206	0.331	92.18	92.37
  4° roads	9718.0	6039.8	2.404	3.868	95.59	96.95
  Total Roads	10908.3	6779.6	2.698	4.341	95.97	96.95
  Railroads	520.0	323.2	0.129	0.207	92.80	86.26
  Pipes and Powerlines	53.2	33.1	0.013	0.021	28.42	16.03

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 5.51% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 11.18, % in Region = 7.63]

  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