Lower Osage -- Cataloging Unit 10290111

• Osage Accounting Unit 102901
  
• Gasconade-Osage Subregion 1029
  
• Missouri Region 10 (There are 310 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 100.0% Missouri.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 2793.9 km² ( 1079.2 mi² ) [% in USA = 42.25, % in Region = 34.19]
  The area from the USGS is 1080 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 806)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 1115911 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 242.9 m ( 796.9 ft ) [% in USA = 30.46, % in Region = 1.61]
  The elevation standard deviation is 41.0 m ( 134.5 ft ) [% in USA = 32.31, % in Region = 19.03]
  The coefficient of variation is 16.9 %.
  The vertical relief is 218.7 m ( 717.5 ft ) [% in USA = 31.83, % in Region = 20.32]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	158.0	186.4	212.4	213.7	233.3	243.0	244.0	266.7	274.0	304.0	376.7
  feet	518.4	611.5	696.8	701.1	765.4	797.2	800.5	875.0	898.9	997.4	1235.9

  

  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	363.9	226.2	0.130	0.210	65.66	86.13
  Intermittent Shoreline	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	26.95	8.71
  Perennial Streams	738.5	459.0	0.264	0.425	50.97	80.00
  Intermittent Streams	1551.4	964.2	0.555	0.893	75.60	50.32
  Canals	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	35.62	43.55
  1° roads	2.6	1.6	0.001	0.002	40.98	57.10
  2° roads	85.8	53.3	0.031	0.049	57.79	71.29
  3° roads	595.1	369.9	0.213	0.343	93.04	94.84
  4° roads	2533.8	1574.7	0.907	1.459	29.80	51.94
  Total Roads	3217.3	1999.6	1.152	1.853	39.41	66.77
  Railroads	88.5	55.0	0.032	0.051	41.26	59.35
  Pipes and Powerlines	298.5	185.5	0.107	0.172	95.64	99.35

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 58.46% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 59.26, % in Region = 25.48]

  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