Upper Yampa -- Cataloging Unit 14050001

• White - Yampa Subregion 1405
  
• Upper Colorado Region 14 (There are 62 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 6800.4 km² ( 2626.8 mi² ) [% in USA = 91.09, % in Region = 79.03]
  The area from the USGS is 2590 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 1584)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 2716139 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 2446.3 m ( 8025.8 ft ) [% in USA = 98.67, % in Region = 82.26]
  The elevation standard deviation is 378.6 m ( 1242.1 ft ) [% in USA = 89.77, % in Region = 58.06]
  The coefficient of variation is 15.5 %.
  The vertical relief is 1830.0 m ( 6003.9 ft ) [% in USA = 84.23, % in Region = 38.71]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	1889.0	2011.0	2077.3	2167.2	2256.1	2377.0	2498.8	2621.8	2801.6	3004.2	3719.0
  feet	6197.4	6597.7	6815.2	7110.1	7401.8	7798.5	8198.1	8601.6	9191.5	9856.2	12201.3

  

  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	233.3	145.0	0.034	0.055	28.04	51.61
  Intermittent Shoreline	30.1	18.7	0.004	0.007	74.94	83.87
  Perennial Streams	2253.4	1400.5	0.331	0.533	61.68	85.48
  Intermittent Streams	3358.1	2087.1	0.494	0.795	68.74	48.39
  Canals	64.8	40.3	0.010	0.015	65.66	48.39
  1° roads	2.2	1.4	0.000	0.001	37.14	72.58
  2° roads	111.9	69.5	0.016	0.026	37.09	61.29
  3° roads	155.9	96.9	0.023	0.037	24.49	54.84
  4° roads	4533.8	2817.8	0.667	1.073	15.02	50.00
  Total Roads	4803.9	2985.6	0.706	1.137	14.78	50.00
  Railroads	186.6	116.0	0.027	0.044	36.57	87.10
  Pipes and Powerlines	235.1	146.1	0.035	0.056	56.37	75.81

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 57.67% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 58.22, % in Region = 24.19]

  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