Southern Great Salt Lake Desert -- Cataloging Unit 16020306

• Great Salt Lake Accounting Unit 160203
  
• Great Salt Lake Subregion 1602
  
• Great Basin Region 16 (There are 71 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 87.4% Utah, 12.6% Nevada.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 14332.3 km² ( 5536.1 mi² ) [% in USA = 99.43, % in Region = 100.00]
  The area from the USGS is 5420 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 777)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 5724185 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 1485.3 m ( 4873.0 ft ) [% in USA = 82.95, % in Region = 12.68]
  The elevation standard deviation is 288.5 m ( 946.5 ft ) [% in USA = 81.29, % in Region = 50.70]
  The coefficient of variation is 19.4 %.
  The vertical relief is 2408.4 m ( 7901.5 ft ) [% in USA = 94.88, % in Region = 94.37]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	1267.0	1287.0	1291.3	1297.3	1309.0	1339.8	1422.5	1538.6	1671.9	1845.3	3675.4
  feet	4156.8	4222.4	4236.5	4256.2	4294.6	4395.6	4666.9	5047.8	5485.2	6054.1	12058.3

  

  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	192.4	119.6	0.013	0.022	15.40	49.30
  Intermittent Shoreline	51.3	31.9	0.004	0.006	72.62	80.28
  Perennial Streams	133.5	83.0	0.009	0.015	6.92	15.49
  Intermittent Streams	5582.3	3469.4	0.389	0.627	56.66	21.13
  Canals	217.9	135.4	0.015	0.024	70.11	59.15
  1° roads	163.2	101.4	0.011	0.018	56.80	76.06
  2° roads	48.0	29.9	0.003	0.005	19.37	30.99
  3° roads	14.8	9.2	0.001	0.002	4.78	2.82
  4° roads	6469.0	4020.5	0.451	0.726	5.54	18.31
  Total Roads	6695.0	4161.0	0.467	0.752	5.16	15.49
  Railroads	124.4	77.3	0.009	0.014	19.37	50.70
  Pipes and Powerlines	19.5	12.1	0.001	0.002	11.61	16.90

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 94.53% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 92.75, % in Region = 77.46]

  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