Lower Yampa -- Cataloging Unit 14050002

• 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 4076.6 km² ( 1574.7 mi² ) [% in USA = 65.94, % in Region = 50.00]
  The area from the USGS is 1550 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 624)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 1629119 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 2053.1 m ( 6735.8 ft ) [% in USA = 94.32, % in Region = 38.71]
  The elevation standard deviation is 191.2 m ( 627.3 ft ) [% in USA = 70.68, % in Region = 12.90]
  The coefficient of variation is 9.3 %.
  The vertical relief is 1585.9 m ( 5203.0 ft ) [% in USA = 78.49, % in Region = 24.19]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	1584.0	1850.3	1892.7	1949.9	1964.0	2011.0	2072.0	2131.8	2194.0	2318.2	3169.9
  feet	5196.8	6070.5	6209.6	6397.2	6443.5	6597.7	6797.8	6994.0	7198.1	7605.6	10399.8

  

  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	255.6	158.8	0.063	0.101	41.02	67.74
  Intermittent Shoreline	3.9	2.4	0.001	0.002	54.05	46.77
  Perennial Streams	271.6	168.8	0.067	0.107	19.99	29.03
  Intermittent Streams	2972.2	1847.2	0.729	1.173	89.15	93.55
  Canals	25.6	15.9	0.006	0.010	60.82	41.94
  1° roads	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	30.84	59.68
  2° roads	71.9	44.7	0.018	0.028	39.18	66.13
  3° roads	48.2	30.0	0.012	0.019	12.79	24.19
  4° roads	3488.3	2168.0	0.856	1.377	26.20	75.81
  Total Roads	3608.4	2242.6	0.885	1.424	23.54	72.58
  Railroads	27.5	17.1	0.007	0.011	18.24	69.35
  Pipes and Powerlines	114.2	71.0	0.028	0.045	48.65	62.90

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 84.95% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 83.61, % in Region = 75.81]

  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