Upper Gila-San Carlos Reservoir -- Cataloging Unit 15040005

• Upper Gila Subregion 1504
  
• Lower Colorado Region 15 (There are 85 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 100.0% Arizona.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 7199.1 km² ( 2780.8 mi² ) [% in USA = 92.85, % in Region = 91.76]
  The area from the USGS is 2820 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 1930)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 2875141 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 1390.6 m ( 4562.3 ft ) [% in USA = 80.72, % in Region = 50.59]
  The elevation standard deviation is 407.8 m ( 1337.9 ft ) [% in USA = 91.90, % in Region = 87.06]
  The coefficient of variation is 29.3 %.
  The vertical relief is 2497.5 m ( 8193.8 ft ) [% in USA = 95.45, % in Region = 95.29]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	731.0	896.9	974.7	1084.8	1218.2	1361.5	1511.9	1622.4	1788.2	1924.9	3228.5
  feet	2398.3	2942.5	3197.8	3559.0	3996.7	4466.8	4960.2	5322.8	5866.7	6315.2	10592.1

  

  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	313.8	195.0	0.044	0.070	32.97	88.24
  Intermittent Shoreline	15.5	9.6	0.002	0.003	64.90	51.76
  Perennial Streams	451.1	280.4	0.063	0.101	19.37	85.88
  Intermittent Streams	7621.8	4737.0	1.059	1.703	99.24	98.82
  Canals	209.2	130.0	0.029	0.047	78.40	88.24
  1° roads	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	30.84	48.24
  2° roads	199.1	123.8	0.028	0.045	53.39	90.59
  3° roads	44.2	27.5	0.006	0.010	7.67	17.65
  4° roads	3406.8	2117.3	0.473	0.761	6.40	20.00
  Total Roads	3650.1	2268.6	0.507	0.816	6.40	21.18
  Railroads	110.6	68.8	0.015	0.025	25.20	60.00
  Pipes and Powerlines	64.6	40.2	0.009	0.014	22.83	30.59

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 90.90% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 89.63, % in Region = 23.53]

  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