Bayou Meto -- Cataloging Unit 08020402

• Lower Arkansas Accounting Unit 080204
  
• Lower Mississippi - St. Francis Subregion 0802
  
• Lower Mississippi Region 08 (There are 82 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 100.0% Arkansas.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 2545.4 km² ( 983.2 mi² ) [% in USA = 35.15, % in Region = 45.12]
  The area from the USGS is 993 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 960)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 1016419 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 69.3 m ( 227.4 ft ) [% in USA = 11.23, % in Region = 62.20]
  The elevation standard deviation is 20.6 m ( 67.6 ft ) [% in USA = 11.80, % in Region = 59.76]
  The coefficient of variation is 29.7 %.
  The vertical relief is 151.6 m ( 497.4 ft ) [% in USA = 18.43, % in Region = 85.37]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	45.0	54.0	56.0	57.0	60.0	62.0	67.0	72.0	76.0	91.0	196.6
  feet	147.6	177.2	183.7	187.0	196.8	203.4	219.8	236.2	249.3	298.6	645.0

  

  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	1150.6	715.1	0.452	0.727	95.26	79.27
  Intermittent Shoreline	66.5	41.3	0.026	0.042	93.89	95.12
  Perennial Streams	906.3	563.3	0.356	0.573	65.04	59.76
  Intermittent Streams	711.4	442.2	0.279	0.450	42.02	36.59
  Canals	549.7	341.6	0.216	0.347	97.39	80.49
  1° roads	93.1	57.8	0.037	0.059	84.08	90.24
  2° roads	134.2	83.4	0.053	0.085	84.94	84.15
  3° roads	360.6	224.1	0.142	0.228	83.51	54.88
  4° roads	3520.4	2187.9	1.383	2.225	71.01	87.80
  Total Roads	4108.3	2553.3	1.614	2.597	75.79	85.37
  Railroads	139.2	86.5	0.055	0.088	62.77	52.44
  Pipes and Powerlines	90.0	55.9	0.035	0.057	57.03	29.27

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 27.44% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 31.41, % in Region = 31.71]

  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