Shields -- Cataloging Unit 10070003

• Upper Yellowstone Subregion 1007
  
• Missouri Region 10 (There are 310 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 100.0% Montana.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 2202.0 km² ( 850.5 mi² ) [% in USA = 25.77, % in Region = 18.71]
  The area from the USGS is 853 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 528)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 879567 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 1807.9 m ( 5931.4 ft ) [% in USA = 90.00, % in Region = 88.39]
  The elevation standard deviation is 288.3 m ( 945.9 ft ) [% in USA = 81.24, % in Region = 85.16]
  The coefficient of variation is 15.9 %.
  The vertical relief is 1882.7 m ( 6176.8 ft ) [% in USA = 85.03, % in Region = 88.71]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	1326.1	1524.0	1585.0	1644.0	1692.1	1737.0	1800.3	1884.6	1994.4	2194.0	3208.8
  feet	4350.7	4999.9	5200.1	5393.6	5551.4	5698.8	5906.4	6183.0	6543.2	7198.1	10527.4

  

  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	33.4	20.7	0.015	0.024	16.63	16.45
  Intermittent Shoreline	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	26.95	8.71
  Perennial Streams	1355.7	842.6	0.616	0.991	92.56	99.68
  Intermittent Streams	633.1	393.5	0.288	0.463	42.97	14.19
  Canals	174.4	108.4	0.079	0.127	90.19	92.26
  1° roads	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	30.84	48.39
  2° roads	62.9	39.1	0.029	0.046	54.67	67.42
  3° roads	32.5	20.2	0.015	0.024	15.87	26.13
  4° roads	1597.8	993.0	0.726	1.168	18.19	28.06
  Total Roads	1693.1	1052.3	0.769	1.237	17.48	28.39
  Railroads	35.2	21.9	0.016	0.026	25.82	34.19
  Pipes and Powerlines	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	8.67	15.48

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 31.31% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 35.10, % in Region = 6.13]

  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