Upper Red -- Cataloging Unit 09020104

• Upper Red Accounting Unit 090201
  
• Red Subregion 0902
  
• Souris-Red-Rainy Region 09 (There are 42 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 76.5% Minnesota, 23.5% North Dakota.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 1519.8 km² ( 587.1 mi² ) [% in USA = 9.24, % in Region = 9.52]
  The area from the USGS is 594 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 244)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 606493 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 291.2 m ( 955.4 ft ) [% in USA = 37.90, % in Region = 11.90]
  The elevation standard deviation is 25.7 m ( 84.3 ft ) [% in USA = 16.86, % in Region = 35.71]
  The coefficient of variation is 8.8 %.
  The vertical relief is 168.4 m ( 552.5 ft ) [% in USA = 22.07, % in Region = 47.62]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	259.0	274.0	277.0	277.0	280.0	285.0	290.0	292.4	295.5	312.0	427.4
  feet	849.7	898.9	908.8	908.8	918.6	935.0	951.4	959.3	969.5	1023.6	1402.2

  

  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	22.7	14.1	0.015	0.024	16.53	9.52
  Intermittent Shoreline	1.5	0.9	0.001	0.002	54.19	59.52
  Perennial Streams	485.0	301.4	0.319	0.513	59.92	92.86
  Intermittent Streams	528.3	328.4	0.348	0.559	50.59	73.81
  Canals	134.6	83.7	0.089	0.143	91.33	69.05
  1° roads	75.6	47.0	0.050	0.080	89.44	100.00
  2° roads	125.3	77.9	0.082	0.133	96.83	100.00
  3° roads	59.1	36.7	0.039	0.063	38.13	38.10
  4° roads	2576.5	1601.3	1.695	2.728	86.45	100.00
  Total Roads	2836.4	1762.8	1.866	3.003	86.17	100.00
  Railroads	198.1	123.1	0.130	0.210	93.13	100.00
  Pipes and Powerlines	43.0	26.7	0.028	0.046	48.98	92.86

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 51.07% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 52.16, % in Region = 57.14]

  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