Colorado headwaters-Plateau -- Cataloging Unit 14010005

• Colorado headwaters Subregion 1401
  
• Upper Colorado Region 14 (There are 62 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 99.4% Colorado, 0.6% Utah.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 8056.0 km² ( 3111.8 mi² ) [% in USA = 95.12, % in Region = 93.55]
  The area from the USGS is 3090 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 1987)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 3217188 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 2096.1 m ( 6876.9 ft ) [% in USA = 94.79, % in Region = 41.94]
  The elevation standard deviation is 505.4 m ( 1658.1 ft ) [% in USA = 97.11, % in Region = 90.32]
  The coefficient of variation is 24.1 %.
  The vertical relief is 2151.4 m ( 7058.3 ft ) [% in USA = 90.86, % in Region = 59.68]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	1297.0	1471.1	1604.4	1766.1	1888.4	2011.0	2154.6	2331.5	2564.8	2865.3	3448.4
  feet	4255.2	4826.4	5263.7	5794.2	6195.5	6597.7	7068.8	7649.2	8414.6	9400.5	11313.5

  

  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	717.0	445.6	0.089	0.143	51.87	83.87
  Intermittent Shoreline	31.0	19.3	0.004	0.006	73.38	80.65
  Perennial Streams	1556.7	967.5	0.193	0.311	38.61	59.68
  Intermittent Streams	3867.3	2403.6	0.480	0.772	67.03	40.32
  Canals	532.3	330.8	0.066	0.106	88.16	87.10
  1° roads	224.8	139.7	0.028	0.045	78.30	95.16
  2° roads	114.2	71.0	0.014	0.023	33.63	56.45
  3° roads	210.9	131.0	0.026	0.042	27.05	66.13
  4° roads	6097.3	3789.5	0.757	1.218	19.71	62.90
  Total Roads	6647.2	4131.3	0.825	1.328	20.46	62.90
  Railroads	239.1	148.6	0.030	0.048	39.41	88.71
  Pipes and Powerlines	319.2	198.4	0.040	0.064	60.92	79.03

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 63.16% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 63.71, % in Region = 29.03]

  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