Middle Kansas -- Cataloging Unit 10270102

• Kansas Accounting Unit 102701
  
• Kansas Subregion 1027
  
• Missouri Region 10 (There are 310 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 100.0% Kansas.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 5674.3 km² ( 2191.8 mi² ) [% in USA = 84.46, % in Region = 78.71]
  The area from the USGS is 2160 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 1011)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 2265999 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 350.3 m ( 1149.3 ft ) [% in USA = 44.91, % in Region = 10.97]
  The elevation standard deviation is 47.8 m ( 156.8 ft ) [% in USA = 37.57, % in Region = 25.81]
  The coefficient of variation is 13.6 %.
  The vertical relief is 225.3 m ( 739.2 ft ) [% in USA = 32.54, % in Region = 21.61]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	253.0	291.8	304.3	317.0	334.1	346.8	365.0	380.2	396.0	415.9	478.3
  feet	830.0	957.3	998.3	1040.0	1096.1	1137.8	1197.5	1247.4	1299.2	1364.5	1569.2

  

  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	459.1	285.3	0.081	0.130	49.03	68.06
  Intermittent Shoreline	0.8	0.5	0.000	0.000	32.31	10.32
  Perennial Streams	1676.6	1042.0	0.295	0.475	56.18	85.81
  Intermittent Streams	3928.2	2441.4	0.692	1.114	87.35	68.06
  Canals	10.8	6.7	0.002	0.003	50.21	51.94
  1° roads	181.7	112.9	0.032	0.052	81.19	93.55
  2° roads	154.4	96.0	0.027	0.044	52.87	65.48
  3° roads	360.7	224.2	0.064	0.102	57.13	80.00
  4° roads	7145.7	4441.1	1.259	2.026	59.92	88.71
  Total Roads	7842.5	4874.1	1.382	2.224	59.45	88.71
  Railroads	448.3	278.6	0.079	0.127	78.35	90.00
  Pipes and Powerlines	239.6	148.9	0.042	0.068	63.81	81.29

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 64.78% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 65.42, % in Region = 32.90]

  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