Escalante -- Cataloging Unit 14070005

• 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 5263.0 km² ( 2032.9 mi² ) [% in USA = 80.72, % in Region = 66.13]
  The area from the USGS is 2000 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 774)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 2102347 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 1946.3 m ( 6385.4 ft ) [% in USA = 92.89, % in Region = 29.03]
  The elevation standard deviation is 478.9 m ( 1571.2 ft ) [% in USA = 95.93, % in Region = 82.26]
  The coefficient of variation is 24.6 %.
  The vertical relief is 2319.9 m ( 7611.1 ft ) [% in USA = 93.94, % in Region = 77.42]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	1112.0	1454.2	1582.1	1657.8	1759.2	1838.6	1950.0	2066.9	2238.5	2666.3	3431.9
  feet	3648.2	4770.9	5190.6	5438.9	5771.6	6032.1	6397.6	6781.1	7344.1	8747.6	11259.4

  

  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	190.4	118.3	0.036	0.058	29.13	54.84
  Intermittent Shoreline	3.7	2.3	0.001	0.001	48.93	40.32
  Perennial Streams	678.8	421.9	0.129	0.208	29.46	43.55
  Intermittent Streams	2422.6	1505.7	0.460	0.741	64.66	32.26
  Canals	30.5	19.0	0.006	0.009	59.78	38.71
  1° roads	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	30.84	59.68
  2° roads	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	15.35	32.26
  3° roads	96.7	60.1	0.018	0.030	19.37	41.94
  4° roads	1402.5	871.7	0.266	0.429	1.75	4.84
  Total Roads	1499.2	931.8	0.285	0.458	1.71	4.84
  Railroads	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	12.60	54.84
  Pipes and Powerlines	66.8	41.5	0.013	0.020	27.95	33.87

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 73.63% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 73.24, % in Region = 46.77]

  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