Lower Quinn -- Cataloging Unit 16040202

• Black Rock Desert Accounting Unit 160402
  
• Black Rock Desert-Humboldt Subregion 1604
  
• Great Basin Region 16 (There are 71 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 100.0% Nevada.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 8484.7 km² ( 3277.4 mi² ) [% in USA = 96.16, % in Region = 85.92]
  The area from the USGS is 3230 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 718)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 3387841 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 1464.1 m ( 4803.4 ft ) [% in USA = 82.28, % in Region = 8.45]
  The elevation standard deviation is 277.5 m ( 910.4 ft ) [% in USA = 80.25, % in Region = 43.66]
  The coefficient of variation is 19.0 %.
  The vertical relief is 1665.6 m ( 5464.5 ft ) [% in USA = 80.48, % in Region = 40.85]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	1182.0	1209.0	1219.0	1246.8	1295.8	1382.1	1463.0	1556.0	1687.5	1880.1	2847.6
  feet	3877.9	3966.5	3999.3	4090.5	4251.3	4534.4	4799.8	5104.9	5536.4	6168.2	9342.4

  

  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	26.8	16.7	0.003	0.005	6.25	19.72
  Intermittent Shoreline	71.6	44.5	0.008	0.014	82.95	92.96
  Perennial Streams	508.2	315.9	0.060	0.096	18.90	45.07
  Intermittent Streams	6670.1	4145.5	0.786	1.265	92.75	83.10
  Canals	5.3	3.3	0.001	0.001	42.73	14.08
  1° roads	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	30.84	53.52
  2° roads	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	15.35	26.76
  3° roads	156.8	97.5	0.018	0.030	19.47	39.44
  4° roads	3322.1	2064.7	0.392	0.630	3.65	7.04
  Total Roads	3479.0	2162.2	0.410	0.660	3.69	9.86
  Railroads	91.1	56.6	0.011	0.017	21.13	52.11
  Pipes and Powerlines	17.7	11.0	0.002	0.003	12.79	21.13

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 92.65% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 90.90, % in Region = 67.61]

  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