Upper Mississippi-Cape Girardeau -- Cataloging Unit 07140105

• Upper Mississippi-Meramec Accounting Unit 071401
  
• Upper Mississippi-Kaskaskia-Meramec Subregion 0714
  
• Upper Mississippi Region 07 (There are 131 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 57.9% Missouri, 42.1% Illinois.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 4431.8 km² ( 1711.9 mi² ) [% in USA = 71.25, % in Region = 70.99]
  The area from the USGS is 1690 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 1449)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 1771027 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 152.9 m ( 501.6 ft ) [% in USA = 20.37, % in Region = 3.05]
  The elevation standard deviation is 42.2 m ( 138.4 ft ) [% in USA = 33.63, % in Region = 78.63]
  The coefficient of variation is 27.6 %.
  The vertical relief is 281.0 m ( 921.9 ft ) [% in USA = 40.03, % in Region = 90.84]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	85.0	103.0	112.0	122.1	143.1	152.0	154.1	169.9	183.0	212.6	366.0
  feet	278.9	337.9	367.4	400.6	469.5	498.7	505.6	557.4	600.4	697.5	1200.8

  

  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	964.3	599.3	0.218	0.350	82.95	72.52
  Intermittent Shoreline	0.7	0.4	0.000	0.000	33.35	26.72
  Perennial Streams	1608.8	999.9	0.363	0.584	65.94	91.60
  Intermittent Streams	1655.4	1028.8	0.374	0.601	54.57	50.38
  Canals	217.3	135.0	0.049	0.079	84.65	86.26
  1° roads	93.3	58.0	0.021	0.034	70.91	64.12
  2° roads	83.4	51.8	0.019	0.030	40.69	22.90
  3° roads	790.4	491.2	0.178	0.287	89.39	89.31
  4° roads	5110.8	3176.4	1.153	1.856	49.36	25.19
  Total Roads	6077.9	3777.5	1.371	2.207	58.50	50.38
  Railroads	467.8	290.8	0.106	0.170	88.87	77.10
  Pipes and Powerlines	193.8	120.4	0.044	0.070	65.14	83.21

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 39.16% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 42.40, % in Region = 34.35]

  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