Middle South Platte-Cherry Creek -- Cataloging Unit 10190003

• South Platte Subregion 1019
  
• Missouri Region 10 (There are 310 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 100.0% Colorado.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 7516.4 km² ( 2903.3 mi² ) [% in USA = 93.89, % in Region = 89.03]
  The area from the USGS is 2870 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 1338)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 3007377 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 1611.9 m ( 5288.3 ft ) [% in USA = 85.65, % in Region = 82.58]
  The elevation standard deviation is 219.4 m ( 719.8 ft ) [% in USA = 73.90, % in Region = 78.39]
  The coefficient of variation is 13.6 %.
  The vertical relief is 1014.4 m ( 3328.0 ft ) [% in USA = 65.75, % in Region = 73.23]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	1301.6	1402.1	1436.2	1468.7	1502.6	1541.1	1585.6	1648.1	1769.0	1955.5	2316.0
  feet	4270.3	4600.0	4711.9	4818.5	4929.7	5056.0	5202.0	5407.1	5803.7	6415.6	7598.3

  

  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	708.6	440.4	0.094	0.152	53.86	74.52
  Intermittent Shoreline	127.8	79.4	0.017	0.027	90.76	80.65
  Perennial Streams	1205.0	748.9	0.160	0.258	33.54	58.06
  Intermittent Streams	1532.0	952.1	0.204	0.328	32.40	7.42
  Canals	1235.4	767.8	0.164	0.264	96.12	98.39
  1° roads	307.3	191.0	0.041	0.066	86.36	96.77
  2° roads	204.4	127.1	0.027	0.044	52.82	65.16
  3° roads	495.6	308.0	0.066	0.106	58.31	81.61
  4° roads	12009.3	7463.8	1.598	2.571	83.37	98.06
  Total Roads	13016.7	8089.9	1.732	2.786	81.86	98.06
  Railroads	514.0	319.5	0.068	0.110	72.86	86.77
  Pipes and Powerlines	135.6	84.3	0.018	0.029	35.77	51.29

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 46.45% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 48.60, % in Region = 14.52]

  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