Lower Kansas -- Cataloging Unit 10270104

• Kansas Accounting Unit 102701
  
• Kansas Subregion 1027
  
• Missouri Region 10 (There are 310 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 99.9% Kansas, 0.1% Missouri.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 4296.0 km² ( 1659.4 mi² ) [% in USA = 69.40, % in Region = 61.29]
  The area from the USGS is 1640 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 1095)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 1716134 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 301.2 m ( 988.2 ft ) [% in USA = 38.89, % in Region = 6.45]
  The elevation standard deviation is 32.2 m ( 105.6 ft ) [% in USA = 24.02, % in Region = 9.35]
  The coefficient of variation is 10.7 %.
  The vertical relief is 206.0 m ( 675.8 ft ) [% in USA = 29.80, % in Region = 17.74]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	219.0	257.9	274.0	279.6	298.5	304.0	305.5	319.0	334.4	336.5	425.0
  feet	718.5	846.1	898.9	917.3	979.3	997.4	1002.3	1046.6	1097.1	1104.0	1394.3

  

  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	620.2	385.4	0.144	0.232	70.30	89.35
  Intermittent Shoreline	0.7	0.4	0.000	0.000	33.78	11.29
  Perennial Streams	1281.6	796.5	0.298	0.480	56.42	86.13
  Intermittent Streams	1553.6	965.6	0.362	0.582	52.63	21.61
  Canals	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	35.62	43.55
  1° roads	398.1	247.4	0.093	0.149	96.26	99.35
  2° roads	268.0	166.5	0.062	0.100	90.57	97.42
  3° roads	248.6	154.5	0.058	0.093	53.20	76.45
  4° roads	8148.4	5064.3	1.897	3.052	91.28	99.03
  Total Roads	9063.1	5632.8	2.110	3.394	91.24	99.03
  Railroads	547.6	340.4	0.127	0.205	92.66	98.06
  Pipes and Powerlines	212.8	132.2	0.050	0.080	70.49	88.39

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 44.97% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 47.37, % in Region = 12.90]

  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