Muddy -- Cataloging Unit 14070002

• Upper Colorado-Dirty Devil Subregion 1407
  
• Upper Colorado Region 14 (There are 62 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 100.0% Utah.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 4060.1 km² ( 1568.3 mi² ) [% in USA = 65.61, % in Region = 48.39]
  The area from the USGS is 1530 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 602)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 1621664 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 1948.4 m ( 6392.3 ft ) [% in USA = 92.99, % in Region = 30.65]
  The elevation standard deviation is 389.6 m ( 1278.2 ft ) [% in USA = 90.72, % in Region = 61.29]
  The coefficient of variation is 20.0 %.
  The vertical relief is 2170.0 m ( 7119.3 ft ) [% in USA = 91.24, % in Region = 62.90]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	1304.0	1493.0	1649.1	1746.6	1810.0	1869.3	1941.3	2035.1	2203.8	2555.5	3474.0
  feet	4278.2	4898.2	5410.4	5730.2	5938.2	6132.8	6369.0	6676.8	7230.2	8384.1	11397.5

  

  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	22.1	13.7	0.005	0.009	9.00	17.74
  Intermittent Shoreline	1.5	1.0	0.000	0.001	41.17	29.03
  Perennial Streams	477.3	296.7	0.118	0.189	28.00	40.32
  Intermittent Streams	2099.3	1304.7	0.517	0.832	71.34	51.61
  Canals	3.0	1.9	0.001	0.001	43.72	17.74
  1° roads	60.9	37.8	0.015	0.024	62.34	88.71
  2° roads	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	15.35	32.26
  3° roads	81.8	50.9	0.020	0.032	21.65	48.39
  4° roads	1362.2	846.6	0.336	0.540	2.42	8.06
  Total Roads	1505.0	935.3	0.371	0.596	2.65	9.68
  Railroads	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	12.60	54.84
  Pipes and Powerlines	5.6	3.4	0.001	0.002	11.65	20.97

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 80.79% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 79.06, % in Region = 67.74]

  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